Production Control Supervisor

Description

 Job Summary:

The Production Control Supervisor is responsible for overseeing day-to-day assembly operations while providing direct leadership over production planning, order prioritization, and schedule execution to ensure safe, efficient, and on time delivery of customer orders. This role serves as a key operational liaison between Production, Planning, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Engineering, and Operations Leadership to align capacity, materials, and labor with business demand. 

This role ensures production schedules are achievable, materials and resources are available, and work is released in a disciplined and controlled manner to support plant(s) throughput and quality objectives. In addition to supervising manufacturing execution on the floor, the role drives proactive identification changes that can impact delivery. The Supervisor identifies areas in need of improvement efforts focused on production efficiency, schedule adherence, workflow stability. The Production Control Supervisor is also responsible for training staff and ensuring that all employees receive the support and guidance necessary to meet performance expectations.

Essential Functions:

• Supervises daily manufacturing operations, ensuring production is executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with production schedule and Kanban levels.
• Ensures labor, equipment, and materials are aligned to meet daily and weekly production targets.
• Identifies and resolves manufacturing constraints, disruptions, or inefficiencies impacting throughput or delivery. 
• Supervises and provides day to day direction to production associates, ensuring PPE practice adherence and achievement of production goals.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and guidance to production associates to improve performance, engagement, and accountability.
• Monitor attendance, work practices, and compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards, addressing issues as needed. 
• Support training, cross-training, and development of production associates to build flexibility and capability within the operation.  Deploys (CI) Continuous Improvement principles to production teams, actively involving associates in Kaizen activities, standard work improvements, and problem solving to support safety, quality, delivery and cost objectives. 
• Partners with Production Leads, Peers, Managers to drive schedule adherence, quality, and productivity. 
• Escalates capacity, labor, or equipment risks to operations leadership with recommended countermeasures. 
• Owns and maintains the master production schedule, ensuring alignment with customer demand, material availability, and production capacity.
• Reviews, releases, and prioritizes production jobs based on order urgency and operational constraints.
• Plans and organizes manufacturing workflow by coordinating labor, equipment, and schedules to support safe, efficient, and balanced production. 
• Monitor schedule adherence and identifies risks to customer delivery commitments, developing recovery plans as needed. 
• Communicate potential performance problems due to material shortages to supply chain, customer service, and logistics departments.
• Coordinate material transfers between various plants to ensure customer commit dates are met.
• Maintain constant communication with supply chain, customer service, manufacturing, and engineering departments to ensure alignment and resolve issues.
• Provides clear and timely communication when orders are delayed or at risk, including root cause explanations and revised commitments.
• Identifies misalignment impacting manufacturing execution and partners with Engineering to drive resolution. 
• Generate daily production reports to ensure internal & external commitments are met.
• Provides oversight and direction to planning and scheduling personnel, ensuring adherence to planning standards and processes.
• Kanban implementation, stabilization and routine maintenance.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement related to production flow, planning accuracy, and interdepartmental communication and partners with leadership to implement improvement. 
• Monitor and ensure production is on time to meet customer expectations, escalate accordingly. 

Requirements

 General Functions:

• Collaborates with other members of the team to ensure that deadlines are met, and products are delivered on time.
• Consistently abides by established safety rules, procedures, and regulations including wearing required safety equipment such as safety shoes and glasses.
• Maintains a clean and organized work environment.
• Identifies and reports quality or safety issues to supervisor or manager.
• Work