Production Supervisor-Night Shift

EnerSys; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

EnerSys, located in Springfield, MO, is seeking a night-shift supervisor to lead a production team from 6pm to 6:30am, Thursday through Saturday and every other Wednesday. This onsite role focuses on meeting production targets, safety standards, and quality expectations while coaching employees and coordinating with other departments.

The position requires a mix of leadership, communication, and hands-on supervision, with a strong emphasis on safety, PPE compliance, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 2-year technical/associates degree or certification with at least 1 year of lead/supervisory experience
• A bachelor’s degree in science, production management, or engineering is preferred
• Strong coaching and motivational abilities
• Ability to perform basic math and analyze data
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication
• Proficiency in MS Office and ERP/MRP systems
• Willingness to wear PPE and follow safety procedures

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, supervision, and training to the shift/department staff
• Oversee equipment, systems, resources, and facilities under your control
• Communicate department targets (production, safety, quality, cost) and coach staff to meet them
• Establish work schedules and manage staffing levels, coordinating with support teams
• Liaise with other departments to ensure smooth transfer of information and production status
• Ensure compliance with safety, environment, and health procedures and PPE use

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Safety

Communication

Education

High school/GED

Associate degree or certification

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

PowerPoint

Job description

Requisition ID: 13997

Location: Springfield, MO, US, 65802

Home-based Position: No

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Description

EnerSys is a global leader in stored energy solutions helping industrial, infrastructure and defense customers address critical power and operational needs. The company delivers integrated solutions that combine energy storage technologies, power electronics, software-enabled intelligence, technical expertise and comprehensive global customer support. EnerSys supports customers across communications networks, data centers, energy infrastructure, material handling, transportation, aerospace and defense — including applications where power continuity is essential. Serving customers in more than 100 countries, EnerSys helps organizations manage energy more reliably, efficiently and intelligently in complex operating environments where uptime, safety and resilience matter.

Supporting Critical Operations Through Three Specialized Business Platforms:

• Network & Infrastructure Solutions (NIS) - Powering the connected world with trusted reserve power and critical infrastructure solutions.
• Industrial Mobility Solutions (IMS) - Powering industrial vehicles and equipment that keep essential goods and industries moving around the world.
• Precision Power Solutions (PPS) - Powering advanced, reliable, high-performance solutions for defense, aerospace, and specialized applications.

Job Purpose

Working as a critical leader within a production team, support the achievement of set production targets and customer expectations by providing the appropriate level of leadership, supervision, and training/development to the people assigned within your shift and/or department, as well as the expected level of oversight to the equipment, systems, resources, and facilities under your control. Ensure those under your supervision are following standard operating procedures with continual focus to their personal safety and the safety of their coworkers, and the quality of product produced being the guiding principles of the teams’ behaviors and actions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This is an onsite in Springfield, MO Nightshift position working from 6pm-6:30am , Thurs-Sat and every other Wed .

1. Provide the appropriate level of leadership, supervision, and training/development to the people assigned within your shift and/or department.

2. Provide the expected level of oversight to the equipment, systems, resources, and facilities under your control.

3. Understand, and effectively communicate expected department targets, to include, but not limited to production, safety, quality, cost control and operational excellence levels (KPIs). Monitoring as appropriate and providing instruction and counsel to employee(s) when expectations are not being met and provide recognition when set expectations are exceeded.

4. Establishing work schedules and managing to planned and unplanned employee levels, providing hands-on coverage as needed, providing for, and making request of appropriate levels of support, supply and materials, and utilizing the manufacturing resource planning (MRP) systems to timely communicate production data.

5. Be an active liaison to other departments/shifts to ensure proper transfer of information to production status and other key performance areas. Establishing effective relationships and channels of communications to immediate and next level of production management, maintenance, supply chain management, EH&S, and HR.

6. Ensure compliance, for yourself and all whom you may come into contact, in all safety, environment and health processes and procedures.To include but not limited to wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE), maintaining, and safely storing PPE, and submitting to periodic personal testing and monitoring.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

1. High School Diploma or GED equivalent, plus 2-year technical/associates degree or certification accompanied with no less than 1 year of work experience in a lead, project manager, or supervisory role. Or equivalent combination of education and experience. A bachelor’s degree in science, production management, business management, and/or engineering, with relevant work experience within a fast-paced heavy materials, system controlled machine and process driven work environment is preferred.

2. A high level of self-motivation, the ability to coach others, and the agility and influence to effectively maintain the needed level of motivation within the team to achieve, if not exceed, performance expectations.

3. Ability to associate cause and affect relationships and determine patterns of activity in anticipation of change within operations, processes, systems, and personnel on a continual and consistent basis.

4. Displayed ability to do basic math – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and calculating percentages – with a high degree of accuracy.

5. Fluent verbal and written skills in English. Strong communication skills, with ability to efficiently present a situation and effectively advocate for a position to any level of the organization.

6. Displayed ability to read and write for understanding, interpret instructions and standard operating procedures, work within software programs (such as but not limited to Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint) and business specific resource planning and reporting systems.

7. Ability to be qualified for safe and compliant use and maintenance of assigned and required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). To include a fit-tested respirator, steel-toed shoes, safety eye wear and hearing protection.

General Job Requirements

• Generic

EnerSys provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.