Tablet Production Supervisor – 1st Shift

LaMotte Company; Chestertown (MD); On-site; USD 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

LaMotte Company in Chestertown, MD is seeking an Operations Supervisor for 1st shift to manage daily tablet production across multiple stages, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity. You will train staff, coordinate scheduling, and oversee packaging operations in a controlled environment.

Qualifications include a high school diploma or equivalent and supervisory experience in manufacturing; applicants must multitask and handle physical demands.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Prior supervisory or team-lead experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Strong mechanical aptitude, equipment-operating skills, computer proficiency, and demonstrated ability to plan work, train employees, troubleshoot production issues, and maintain accurate documentation are required.
• Must be able to multitask, wear a chemical cartridge respirator, transport up to 50 pounds, and handle a loaded pallet jack.

Responsibilities

• Conducts a daily 15-minute safety and production huddle covering safety topics, quality concerns, backlog, material or inventory issues, the production schedule, staffing assignments, and employee feedback.
• Builds and maintains safe workplace conditions, practices, and behaviors that comply with applicable safety and environmental requirements; identifies and corrects hazards and ensures employees follow established controls.
• Participates in and conducts tablet-area safety activities, including Gemba walks, hazardous-waste audits, safety observations, improvement projects, and required eyewash, safety-shower, and fire-extinguisher checks.
• Plans and manages daily tablet production across bulk powder manufacturing, tablet compression, strip packaging, bottling, and related packaging operations to meet safety, quality, service, and productivity requirements.
• Is fully trained in tablet production processes and equipment and is capable of performing key department tasks and training employees on approved procedures.
• Develops and adjusts the production schedule within the supervisor’s scope, verifies raw-material availability, sets up packaging jobs, optimizes changeovers, and escalates constraints that may affect customer requirements.
• Operates, adjusts, troubleshoots, and coordinates maintenance of tablet manufacturing and packaging equipment in accordance with approved procedures.
• Ensures production rates and quality standards are met; performs or verifies required in-process and finished-product inspections and responds promptly to deviations, holds, nonconformances, and other issues.
• Completes and audits production logs, job travelers, and daily shift reports; ensures materials are issued, required operations are entered, scrap is accurately recorded, and documentation is completed on the day work is performed.
• Maintains inventory control for tablet raw materials, bulk powders, work in process, and finished goods; facilitates replenishment, ensures cycle counts are completed, places finished product into inventory, and resolves discrepancies and job variances.
• Generates production jobs through the workbench or manually, as authorized, and ensures items broken down for repackaging are properly relieved from inventory.
• Implements approved formulation, process, procedure, and Engineering Change Order changes in coordination with Quality, R&D, Engineering, and the Value Stream Manager.
• Communicates production status, raw-material shortages, supplier changes, lead-time risks, and product shortages to the appropriate internal partners, including Purchasing, Kit Assembly, Customer Service, Quality, R&D, Engineering, Maintenance, and the Value Stream Manager.
• Reviews and approves timecards, time-off requests, attendance points, overtime, and other assigned workforce transactions accurately and on time.
• Coordinates onboarding, qualification, cross-training, and refresher training for tablet employees; maintains required training records and verifies employees are qualified before performing assigned work independently.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Mechanical aptitude

Equipment operation

Computer proficiency

Training employees

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Multitasking

Respirator use

Heavy lifting

Pallet jack

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Pallet jack

Job description

LaMotte Company in Chestertown, MD is seeking an Operations Supervisor for 1st shift to manage daily tablet production across multiple stages, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity. You will train staff, coordinate scheduling, and oversee packaging operations in a controlled environment.

Qualifications include a high school diploma or equivalent and supervisory experience in manufacturing; applicants must multitask and handle physical demands.