Production Supervisor
This role is responsible for leading day-to-day production operations, supervising hourly manufacturing personnel, coordinating cross-functional support activities, and helping establish a high-performance manufacturing culture focused on safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced startup manufacturing environment and bring strong leadership, operational discipline, and hands-on problem-solving capabilities to the production floor.
Responsibilities
* Lead and supervise daily manufacturing operations for assigned production areas
* and/or shift
* Provide direction, coaching, and support to production operators and
* manufacturing technicians
* Promote accountability, teamwork, communication, and operational discipline
* across the production floor
* Support employee onboarding, training, and performance development activities
* Ensure manufacturing operations comply with safety, quality, and production
* standards
* Support adherence to standardized work instructions and manufacturing
* procedures
* Monitor production output, efficiency, scrap, downtime, and operational
* performance metrics
* Escalate and coordinate resolution of production, quality, or equipment-related
* issues
* Coordinate daily activities with maintenance, quality, warehouse/logistics,
* engineering, and production planning teams
* Support material flow and line readiness to maintain production continuity *Assist with implementation of process improvements and operational changes*
* Participate in continuous improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives
* Help establish manufacturing workflows, operational standards, and production processes
* Support operational scaling activities as manufacturing volumes increase
* Contribute to building a positive, high-performance manufacturing culture
Skills & Qualifications
* 3–7 years of manufacturing leadership or supervisory experience
* Experience leading hourly production personnel in a manufacturing environment
* Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, safety procedures, and quality systems
* Ability to prioritize and manage multiple operational activities simultaneously
* Strong communication, coaching, leadership, and problem-solving skills
* Ability to remain calm and make effective decisions in fast-paced production
* environments
* Hands-on leadership style with willingness to spend significant time on the
* manufacturing floor
* Experience with lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
* preferred
* Automotive, battery, electronics, advanced manufacturing, or other high-volume
* production experience preferred
* Strong organizational skills and operational discipline
* Ability to work collaboratively across engineering, operations, quality, logistics, and maintenance
Pay: $65,000.00 - $78,000.00 per year
Experience:
* Manufacturing engineering: 4 years (Preferred)
Shift availability:
* Day Shift (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
* Mason, OH 45040 (Required)
Work Location: In person