Production Supervisor (Mount Airy, NC)

Ottenweller Company; Mount Airy (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Ottenweller Company in Mount Airy, NC is seeking a Production Supervisor to coordinate fabricating and delivering parts safely while meeting customer goals. You will supervise production staff, schedule workflows, and ensure quality standards in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires a high school diploma and 6–9 years in metal fabrication, with experience in punching, laser cutting, welding, and machining.

Qualifications

• Minimum a high school diploma; 6–9 years in metal fabrication.
• Knowledge of punching, laser cutting, plasma cutting, burning, forming, welding, machining, and painting.
• Lean manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supervises and coordinates activities of production employees directly or through Team-leaders.
• Maintains team boards with up-to-date metrics and clear communication.
• Disciplines staff per company policies re attendance and conduct.
• Coordinates production with Sales, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, and Maintenance.
• Supports safe, efficient operations and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Lean Manufacturing

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor's or associate degree preferred

Tools

Punching

Laser cutting

Plasma cutting

Burning

Forming

Welding

Machining

Painting

Job description

Summary

Coordinates manufacturing operations to fabricate and deliver parts in a safe manner that meets or exceeds customer goals and expectations. Evaluates information such as job routers, product specifications, parts, and material inventory lists, and machine and worker production rates to establish efficient allocation and scheduling of parts, materials, machines, and sequences of operations. Interviews, hires, and trains employees in area of supervision. Reports directly to Plant Manager.

Essential Duties

• Supervises and coordinates activities of production employees directly or through Team-leaders.
• Ensures that Team boards are updated daily with effective and clear measures of communication.
• Maintains team boards with the support of Team-Leads and ensures that they are up to date on a daily basis.
• Performs discipline of staff as necessary by fully understanding and properly implementing company handbook policies re: attendance and categories of conduct.
• Coordinates production activities with Sales: by monitoring and informing Sales team of reduced schedules due to scrap.
• Coordinates production activities with Engineering: by pursuing inquiries related to the process to correctly produce parts and tracking continuous improvement ideas of staff.
• Coordinates production activities with Quality: by issuing hold-tags, clarifying prints and inspection forms as needed.
• Coordinates production activities with Purchasing: by tracking shortages, past due POs, and facilitating employee requests/MROs.
• Coordinates production activities with Maintenance: by reviewing stats of down machines, following up on open maintenance requests, and gathering updates on preventative maintenance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

High school diploma and six to nine years metal fabrication experience and/or training or an equivalent combination of education or experience are required. Working knowledge of punching, laser cutting, plasma-cutting, burning, forming, welding, machining, and painting. Bachelor's or associatedegree preferred. Computer literacy is required, may receive instruction on-the-job. Lean Manufacturing experience preferred.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Skills

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to walk, climb and/or bend. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

This is a full time position