Location: Tupelo, Mississippi
Industry: Automotive Manufacturing
Shift: 2nd Shift
Position Overview
Our client is a diversified global automotive supplier specializing in lightweight structures, propulsion systems, and innovative mobility solutions, with a commitment to operational excellence, quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
The Production Supervisor is responsible for overseeing daily manufacturing operations within an automotive Tier 1 production environment in Tupelo, MS. This role leads production team leaders and hourly employees across assembly, stamping, welding, and material handling operations to ensure production schedules, quality standards, safety requirements, and efficiency targets are consistently achieved. The Production Supervisor promotes a culture of accountability, teamwork, employee development, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with established company policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise and support Team Leaders, Assembly Operators, Welders, and Forklift Operators to meet daily production requirements.
- Ensure production schedules, customer requirements, productivity targets, and efficiency goals are consistently achieved within established budgets.
- Maintain compliance with product identification, traceability, process control, and packaging requirements.
- Ensure production employees follow established quality procedures and meet required product and process standards.
- Verify compliance with first-off and last-off inspection procedures.
- Ensure Layered Process Audits (LPA) are completed according to schedule and corrective actions are followed through to closure within appropriate timeframes.
- Monitor inventory levels of manufactured parts to ensure production targets and customer requirements are met.
- Coordinate with Quality, Maintenance, Materials, Engineering, and other departments to minimize downtime and prevent unnecessary production interruptions.
- Train, develop, coach, mentor, direct, and discipline employees as appropriate to maintain a safe, productive, and effective workforce.
- Provide regular constructive feedback and communicate company policies, work instructions, performance expectations, and operational standards.
- Support employee performance evaluations and provide recommendations regarding probationary employee performance and employment status.
- Ensure all required departmental training is completed, documented, and posted at designated workstations. Provide additional on-the-job training and retraining as needed.
- Assist with production reports, performance metrics, and other operational documentation as required by management.
- Communicate departmental performance, production results, quality concerns, and improvement opportunities to employees on a regular basis.
- Maintain high standards of housekeeping, organization, and workplace cleanliness throughout the department.
- Enforce company health, safety, environmental, and personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in safety, quality, productivity, cost, and employee engagement.
- Ensure all work is performed safely and efficiently, without placing employees or coworkers in unsafe conditions.
- Support and maintain applicable Quality Management System and Environmental Management System requirements.