Production Supervisor

​​Who We Are

At CPC (Colder Products Company), we’re not just connecting fluid lines – we’re connecting people, ideas, and possibilities. For nearly 50 years, we’ve been engineering cutting-edge fluid connection technologies that power industries from biopharmaceutical, thermal management (liquid cooling of electronics), medical, industrial, and chemical handling markets. 

But what sets us apart? Our people. 

We’re a team of problem-solvers, innovators, and forward-thinkers who thrive in a culture that values collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement. Headquartered in Minneapolis/St. Paul, with over 700 employees in 14 countries, we’re growing fast, and we want you to grow with us!

Your Role

Are you ready to make an impact and work with a company that values your expertise, ideas, and career growth? As our next Production Supervisor, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping our organization’s success. This isn’t just a job – it’s a career move where you’ll thrive, learn, and enjoy coming to work.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interviewing and selecting candidates. Ensure appropriate staffing levels and skills are maintained. Assess employee work performance against clearly established expectations, identify areas that need improvement and provide documented coaching where necessary. Ensure the use of safe work practices and behaviors.
• Facilitate training and cross training, including identifying needs for training, designating the trainer, and working through frequent training assessments.
• Ensure safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met through coaching, standardized work, smooth and safe running of work cells and producing quality parts.
• Drive to exceed personal, team and company goals by holding self & team to high performance standards.
• Work alongside production operation teams to drive KPI's and performance goals set out for the department.
• Lead by example and provide support to the operation teams to meet/exceed production goals.
• Create standard work practices for all operations to balance the workload and available capacity in collaboration with planning and logistics teams.
• Make decisions independently using sound problem solving and/ or analytical skills.
• Work with manufacturing process technicians, manufacturing engineers, quality teams and HR to resolve reoccurring nonconformance issues.
• Provide accurate production status updates to Operations Management, Engineering, and floor production teams at the Tier meetings.
• Coordinate with engineering, logistics, supply chain, quality, and other departments to minimize production interruptions.
• Identify process and equipment problems to determine root cause(s), escalate any equipment issues in a timely manner to minimize production execution disruptions and influence implementation of appropriate corrective action(s) utilizing cross-functional teams.
• Lead efforts, as a production point of contact, to transition product from engineering development to full rate production.
• Monitor labor hours and identify overtime needs to support production schedules.
• Collaborate with CI teams in using Lean Manufacturing Methodologies to perform root cause analysis, develop and deliver continuous improvement initiatives in safety, environmental, quality, cost, efficiency, and productivity objectives.
• Facilitate completion of tasks & projects assigned to Manufacturing Process Technicians and Team Leads in support of daily production floor executions.
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of Supervisory experience in manufacturing environment or Associate Degree with 5+ years of Supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment. 
• Demonstrated leadership skills are necessary, with previous supervisory experience highly preferred. 
• Able to adapt to constant changing work assignments and fast paced work environment. 
• Excellent concentration and attention to detail with outstanding work efficiency and accuracy. 
• Experience with applying lean manufacturing principles, efficiency methods.
• Experience solving manufacturing problems related to incapable processes and or designs. <