Job Description
Job Title: Production Supervisor
Location: Northbrook, IL
Hire Type: Contract | Approximately 2–3 months, with potential to extend
Pay Rate: $35.00/hour
Benefits: PTO, paid holidays, BCBS medical plans, dental/vision plans, 401(k), & ESOP
Work Schedule: 1st Shift | Monday–Friday, 6:00AM–2:30PM
Hire Type: Contract | Approximately 2–3 months, with potential to extend
Pay Rate: $35.00/hour
Benefits: PTO, paid holidays, BCBS medical plans, dental/vision plans, 401(k), & ESOP
Work Schedule: 1st Shift | Monday–Friday, 6:00AM–2:30PM
Job Summary:
We are seeking 2 Production Supervisors to support increased workload at a metal fabrication facility that manufactures dental instruments. These supervisors will work alongside the existing leadership team to oversee daily production activities, support employees, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency within production work cells.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, self-motivated leader who can quickly step into a manufacturing environment, build relationships with employees, identify improvement opportunities, and make an immediate impact.
Must-Have Skills:
- Manufacturing Experience: Previous experience in a manufacturing or production environment required.
- Leadership: Ability to effectively lead, support, and motivate frontline production employees.
- Continuous Improvement: Strong mindset focused on identifying efficiencies and improving processes and work-cell performance.
- Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with employees and management.
- Initiative: Independent, self-motivated "go-getter" who can quickly assess situations and take action.
Job Duties:
- Support existing Production Supervisors with daily manufacturing operations and increased workload.
- Provide frontline leadership and direction to production employees within assigned work cells.
- Monitor production activities to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and according to quality standards.
- Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
- Partner with production leadership to implement improvements and drive operational efficiency.
- Communicate production priorities, issues, and updates effectively to employees and management.
- Build positive working relationships with production employees and encourage teamwork and accountability.
- Help troubleshoot day-to-day production challenges and ensure issues are addressed promptly.
- Support a culture of continuous improvement, productivity, quality, and safety.
- Perform other supervisory and production-related responsibilities as needed.
Qualifications:
- Manufacturing experience required; metal fabrication or similar industrial manufacturing experience preferred.
- Previous production leadership or supervisory experience preferred.
- Strong continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify practical process improvements.
- Strong communication and people skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and take initiative.
- Comfortable working in a hands-on manufacturing environment.
- Ability to quickly learn processes, build credibility with employees, and contribute immediately.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Northbrook, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Contract Managementunmatched
- Employee Relationsunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Manufacturing Operations Managementunmatched
- Metal Manufacturingunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Operationsunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Production Controlunmatched
- Production Managementunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Productivity Managementunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Staff Motivationunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
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