Weekend Production Supervisor - CNC, Assembly & Lean Leader

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Gallatin (TN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. in Gallatin, TN is seeking a Weekend Production Supervisor to lead discrete manufacturing operations on weekend shifts, including CNC machining, assembly, and inspection.

You will drive safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives while coaching a weekend team to perform with discipline and urgency. The role requires hands-on leadership on the shop floor, strong problem-solving, and the ability to make timely decisions with limited off-shift support.

Qualifications

• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent; higher degrees preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekend machining and assembly teams to execute the production schedule safely, efficiently, and in accordance with standard work, quality requirements, and company policies.
• Maintain an active presence on the shop floor, coaching operators, resolving barriers, reinforcing expectations, and creating a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Confirm labor readiness, machine and cell staffing, work order availability, material availability, tooling, fixtures, gauges, inspection requirements, and equipment readiness before and during each shift.
• Monitor production performance throughout the shift, including schedule attainment, output, earned hours, labor utilization, downtime, scrap, rework, first‑pass yield, quality holds, and safety performance.
• Coordinate with Production Control, Materials, and weekday supervisors to ensure weekend work is properly prioritized, released, staged, transacted, and communicated before the start of the shift.
• Escalate constraints that could impact safety, quality, delivery, or cost, including material shortages, machine downtime, tooling issues, quality defects, absenteeism, staffing gaps, or unclear production priorities.
• Ensure accurate execution of ERP/MRP transactions, work order reporting, labor reporting, move transactions, scrap reporting, material returns, and production‑completion activities.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action for production misses, recurring defects, downtime events, schedule disruptions, and material‑flow issues.
• Partner with Quality to ensure first‑piece approvals, in‑process checks, containment activity, nonconforming material handling, and final inspection requirements are followed.
• Partner with Maintenance and Manufacturing Engineering to resolve machine, tooling, fixture, process, and equipment issues that limit safe and repeatable production performance.
• Reinforce compliance with safety requirements, PPE, lockout/tagout expectations, machine guarding, ergonomic practices, housekeeping, 5S, and incident‑reporting procedures.
• Prepare clear shift handoff notes for weekday leadership, including completed work, open issues, staffing concerns, quality concerns, downtime reasons, shortages, and recommended follow‑up actions.

Skills

Safety Leadership

Production Discipline

Floor Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Accountability

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associate degree, technical certification, or bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, Business, or a related field

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

MS Excel

Outlook

Job description

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. in Gallatin, TN is seeking a Weekend Production Supervisor to lead discrete manufacturing operations on weekend shifts, including CNC machining, assembly, and inspection.

You will drive safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives while coaching a weekend team to perform with discipline and urgency. The role requires hands-on leadership on the shop floor, strong problem-solving, and the ability to make timely decisions with limited off-shift support.