Plant Supervisor

The Production & Distribution Supervisor is responsible for developing employees, setting work schedules, managing employee relations, ensuring employee performance meets the daily Production, Shipping, Receiving, Material Transfer, and Inventory Control activities/requirements. This position is accountable for coordinating and supporting daily delivery performance, reducing past-due orders, and ensuring customer requirements are met through effective production planning, scheduling, material flow, inventory accuracy, and on-time shipment of quality products.

The Supervisor reviews customer demand, forecast, backlog, past-due orders daily, establishes production and shipping priorities, leads production meetings, and coordinates recovery actions for issues impacting delivery. This position works cross-functionally to address Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, material, capacity, and inventory issues and supports assigned projects and continuous improvement activities.

Job Duties Execute daily production and distribution plans to meet customer requirements and drive on-time delivery performance.

• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, past-due orders, material availability, labor, and capacity to establish daily production and shipping priorities.
• Monitor OTD and past-due performance daily, identify delivery risks and key drivers, and execute and follow up on recovery actions.
• Lead daily production meetings to review priorities, delivery performance, past dues, material constraints, capacity, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate with Planning, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, Engineering, and other departments to resolve issues impacting production and customer delivery.

Oversee Production, Shipping, Receiving, Material Transfer, and Inventory Control activities.

• Ensure production requirements and inbound/outbound shipments are completed accurately and on time.
• Maintain effective material flow and inventory accuracy through proper transactions, cycle counting, reconciliation, and inventory controls.
• Ensure applicable quality, ERP, import/export, U.S. Customs, safety, and company requirements are followed.

Provide daily leadership and direction to Production and Distribution employees.

• Assign labor and priorities based on production requirements, workload, and customer commitments.
• Maintain the training matrix and cross-training plans, ensuring employees are properly trained and developing skills across Production and Distribution to support flexibility and coverage.
• Coach and develop employees while monitoring performance, attendance, productivity, safety, and compliance with company policies.
• Review daily timekeeping and punch exceptions, manage reports to ensure payroll accuracy and timely submission.
• Responsible for drafting and administering goal setting, annual and mid-year performance reviews.

Monitor operational performance and drive continuous improvement.

• Monitor Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, productivity, inventory accuracy, OTD, and past-due performance and execute corrective actions as directed.
• Support Lean and continuous improvement activities, including 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, standard work, and process improvements.
• Maintain required operational reports, metrics, procedures, and records.

Lead operational meetings, projects, and cross-functional activities as required.

• Manage assigned projects, including actions, responsibilities, timelines, implementations, and follow-up through completion.
• Communicate operational risks, delivery concerns, priorities, and recovery plans to management and affected departments.
• Support new equipment, systems, process improvements, audits, and other operational requirements as needed.
• Performs back-up duties for all production and logistic positions.
• Performs back-up duties on the Operations Manager Leader Standard Work.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Experience Requirements

• Minimum 2–5 years of supervisory or leadership experience in manufacturing, production, distribution, warehouse, or similar operations.
• Experience with production planning, scheduling, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Experience working with ERP systems in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Experience managing daily operational priorities and working cross-functionally to resolve delivery, material, capacity, or inventory issues.

Skills Required

• Ability to lead and develop employees while promoting accountability, teamwork, and cross-functional communication.
• Understanding of production planning, scheduling, material flow, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, OTD, past-due performance, and capacity to identify risks and drive action plans.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, identify issues, and follow actions through completion.
• Experience with 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, process flow, and other continuous improvement activities.
• Experience with ERP systems, Microsoft Office, UPS, FedEx, and other applicable shipping systems.
• Ability to work independently, adapt to changing business requirements, and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.

Education Requirements

• Associate or bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.