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Production Supervisor (Day Shift)
CéréliaUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Apr 2026
💰 $90,000/yr($68,000/yr – $90,000/yr)
About the role
Job Title: Production Supervisor
Department: Operations
Reports To: Production Manager
Primary Responsibilities:
• Own shift performance, including safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and waste
• Lead daily shift startup, execution, and handoff to ensure consistency across all shifts
• Actively manage line performance in real time, including:
• Monitoring run rates and output
• Identifying and addressing downtime
• Escalating issues quickly when needed
• Drive adherence to standard work, operating procedures, and GMP requirements
• Ensure all products meet defined quality standards, including weight, appearance, and packaging requirements
• Partner closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment uptime and rapid response to issues
• Enforce safety standards and ensure compliance with all EHS requirements
• Lead and develop front-line employees through coaching, accountability, and clear performance expectations
• Ensure proper staffing and positioning of employees to meet production targets
• Drive labor efficiency and minimize waste, including material giveaway and rework
• Conduct daily communication with team members, including:
• Shift huddles
• Clear expectations for performance
• Feedback on results
• Support and drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, and productivity
• Maintain accurate and timely reporting of shift performance, including downtime, output, and key KPIs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with FSQA, Maintenance, and Warehouse to ensure smooth operations
• Hold team members accountable to performance, behavior, and attendance standards
• Support onboarding and training of new employees to build a capable and reliable workforce
• Perform other duties as assigned or of a similar nature or level
Qualifications:
Department: Operations
Reports To: Production Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt
Primary Responsibilities:
• Own shift performance, including safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and waste
• Lead daily shift startup, execution, and handoff to ensure consistency across all shifts
• Actively manage line performance in real time, including:
• Monitoring run rates and output
• Identifying and addressing downtime
• Escalating issues quickly when needed
• Drive adherence to standard work, operating procedures, and GMP requirements
• Ensure all products meet defined quality standards, including weight, appearance, and packaging requirements
• Partner closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment uptime and rapid response to issues
• Enforce safety standards and ensure compliance with all EHS requirements
• Lead and develop front-line employees through coaching, accountability, and clear performance expectations
• Ensure proper staffing and positioning of employees to meet production targets
• Drive labor efficiency and minimize waste, including material giveaway and rework
• Conduct daily communication with team members, including:
• Shift huddles
• Clear expectations for performance
• Feedback on results
• Support and drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, and productivity
• Maintain accurate and timely reporting of shift performance, including downtime, output, and key KPIs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with FSQA, Maintenance, and Warehouse to ensure smooth operations
• Hold team members accountable to performance, behavior, and attendance standards
• Support onboarding and training of new employees to build a capable and reliable workforce
• Perform other duties as assigned or of a similar nature or level
Core Competencies
- Drive High Performance: Establishes clear accountability for outcomes. Demonstrates focus and discipline in planning and execution. Acts with speed, agility and demonstrates a sense of urgency to keep momentum.
- Collaborate: Builds and maintains strong relationships and makes commitments to others and follows through. Actively listens and communicates openly. Engages constructively in debates. Supports and executes decisions once made.
- Can-do attitude: Demonstrates a positive, solution-focused approach, actively seeks out opportunities to improve processes, and readily tackles challenges with resilience and enthusiasm. Thrives in dynamic environments and is motivated by delivering impactful results.
- Innovate: Challenges the status quo by pro-actively identifying opportunities for improvement. encourages sharing best practices, creativity, and experimentation; learns from setbacks and adapts quickly.
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Exhibits precision and thoroughness, consistently producing reliable work. Demonstrates diligence in reviewing data, identifying discrepancies promptly, and ensuring adherence to high standards of quality and compliance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar fields.
- Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, demonstrated by successful completion of a major improvement project.
- Ability to interface effectively with plant personnel, outside contractors, and different functional groups within the business units.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing and quality systems, finance, statistical process control, and KPI management systems.
- Demonstrated leadership in safety & quality compliance.
- Must be very effective working in a volatile and complex environment and work with a sense of urgency that drives effective results.
- Strong influence management and communication skills, ability to gain organizational bu
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