Job Description

Are you a strong leader with manufacturing experience? Do you have a servant leadership style and a desire to truly support your team? Wonderful. Doherty Career Solutions is partnering with a local Maple Lake, MN company as they look to add a 1st Shift Production Supervisor to the thriving team. This role is a hands-on supervisor and will work alongside the team. The Production Supervisor will provide their team with daily direction, training and development to ensure quality products are produced, minimize or eliminate defects, and maximize efficiencies (people, machines, and materials). They will be responsible for ensuring the team achieves the company’s on-time delivery goals and meeting or exceeding our customer expectations. This role will offer a M-T schedule with some OT on Fridays and PayScale will range between $55,000-65,000 plus a $5,000 sign on bonus!

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide strong, positive leadership to the manufacturing team that maximizes the company’s operations, efficiencies, and safety objectives.
• Understand/achieve specific company targets. Identify quarterly goals and a path to achieve them.
• Direct and oversee operations for SQCD-P – Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People.
• Lead by example and work with the team to better understand their role and exhibit our "I can" core value. Will provide coverage for Deck Leads (when needed) to run the day-to-day business operations.
• Hiring, Performance Evaluation & Development
• Facilitate production staff training each quarter to ensure ongoing development in cycle time maximization, minimize defects and rework, meet on-time delivery goals, and meet customer expectations.
• Identifies Continuous Improvement projects that align with company goals.

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

• High school diploma or equivalent required; Associate degree preferred.
• Coursework in Manufacturing Processes, Supervisor Training, or Lean Manufacturing strongly preferred.
• 3+ years of manufacturing experience, ideally in plastics.
• Past supervisory or team lead experience (i.e., Deck Lead or previous Supervisor), preferred.
• Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Must have mechanical aptitude, good attention to detail, ability to perform basic math computations and computer data entry.
• Ability to read and interpret operating manuals and engineering standards.
• Able to multi-task, establish priorities, and follow through.

Join a great team in a great environment…apply today! Click APPLY NOW to complete our mobile-friendly, online application. For questions or additional information about the Production Supervisor position, please contact our Recruitment Team directly at 952-715-5043.

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