Plant Manufacturing Supervisor (Train for Plant Manager)

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Plant Manufacturing Supervisor

• FAST TRACK CAREER PATH TO PLANT MANAGER
• Company Focus: Ultimate in leading a Positive Cultural Environment, Training/Mentoring

The Opportunity & Ideal Leader for this Role

If you are a supervisor ready to take the next step in your career, this is a great opportunity to run your own Plant.

• You are a visible, hands-on manufacturing leader who prefers being on the production floor rather than managing from behind a desk. You know how to hold people accountable while building a positive team environment, and you are comfortable balancing production demands with safety, quality, employee development, and continuous improvement.
• You understand that strong manufacturing leadership isn't just about hitting today's numbers—it's about building a reliable team and improving the operation every day.
• This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys being on the plant floor, working directly with employees, solving production challenges, and keeping operations running safely, efficiently, and on schedule.
• The Plant Manufacturing Supervisor will oversee daily production activities, workforce performance, safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement while working closely with plant and operations leadership.

What You'll Do

• Supervise day-to-day manufacturing and assembly operations to ensure production goals are achieved safely and efficiently.
• Lead, coach, and support production employees and frontline team leads.
• Coordinate daily staffing, work assignments, production schedules, and priorities based on customer and operational requirements.
• Monitor key performance indicators including safety, quality, labor productivity, scrap, equipment uptime, on-time production, and cost efficiency.
• Identify production bottlenecks and workflow issues and work with the appropriate teams to resolve them quickly.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor and provide hands-on leadership to employees.
• Reinforce company safety policies and ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
• Monitor product quality and ensure established quality standards and procedures are consistently followed.
• Partner with maintenance personnel to address equipment issues, minimize downtime, and keep production running efficiently.
• Support materials planning, inventory control, receiving, cycle counts, and proper material rotation.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using lean manufacturing practices such as 5S, standard work, root-cause analysis, and kaizen.
• Help maintain a clean, organized, efficient, and audit-ready manufacturing environment.
• Assist with hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, and development of production employees.
• Promote strong employee relations and help improve attendance, retention, accountability, and overall team performance.
• Communicate production results, staffing concerns, equipment issues, and operational challenges to plant leadership.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of manufacturing experience, including progressive leadership or supervisory responsibility.
• Previous experience as a Manufacturing Supervisor, Production Supervisor, Operations Supervisor, Shift Supervisor, or similar manufacturing leadership role.
• Experience leading hourly employees in an assembly, production, or light industrial manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, labor management, productivity, quality, and safety.
• Working knowledge of OSHA requirements and manufacturing safety practices.
• Experience tracking production metrics and using data to identify and resolve operational issues.
• Familiarity with inventory control and manufacturing workflow.
• Experience with lean manufacturing, 5S, continuous improvement, or similar methodologies preferred.
• Comfortable/strong Excel and ERP/MRP systems.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and employee-development skills.
• Spanish language skills are a plus.

Corporate Recruiting Partner: Companies hire our recruiting resources to fully represent them and be their recruiting partner (Corporate Recruiting Partner) to fill their open positions. This replaces the traditional onsite Corporate Recruiter. We act on behalf of our client for the full recruiting cycle with a focus on win-win for people seeking the right opportunity.