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Production Supervisor - Nightshift

Skydio· Operations
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Hayward, California, United States$113.8k - $146.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Production Supervisor to lead night-shift manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, quality, output, cost, and schedule objectives. Responsible for daily production execution, staffing, training, material readiness, and process adherence, while collaborating across functions to drive performance and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily manufacturing operations for assigned production areas, lines, or programs.
  • Execute production plans while maintaining safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations.
  • Establish daily targets, priorities, staffing plans, and labor allocation.
  • Monitor production performance and escalate constraints.
  • Develop recovery plans when production falls behind schedule.
  • Maintain floor leadership and standards for safety, organization, cleanliness, and 5S.
  • Directly supervise production leads, technicians, assemblers, and operators.
  • Manage daily staffing, attendance, overtime, training, and operator qualification.
  • Set expectations and provide coaching and feedback.
  • Address productivity, quality, attendance, and performance concerns.
  • Support onboarding and develop leads and high-performing team members.
  • Foster accountability, urgency, teamwork, respect, and continuous improvement.
  • Track manufacturing metrics (output, plan attainment, FPY, yield, scrap/rework, cycle time, labor efficiency, downtime, attendance, training).
  • Review performance and take corrective action as needed.
  • Ensure adherence to work instructions, standard work, and quality requirements.
  • Partner with Quality and ME to investigate defects and deviations.
  • Support root-cause analysis, containment, and corrective actions.
  • Ensure materials, tooling, equipment, documentation, staffing, and training are ready to support production.
  • Collaborate with Planning, Supply Chain, and Materials to resolve shortages.
  • Represent production for assigned areas; communicate status and risks to leadership.
  • Support NPI and pilot builds transitioning to sustained production.
  • Maintain effective shift handoffs and cross-functional communication.
  • Identify opportunities for safety, quality, throughput, and cost improvements.
  • Partner with ME on line balancing, standard work, and process improvements.
  • Support Lean, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Use data and feedback to drive sustainable improvements.
  • Standardize successful processes across areas.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, production, operations, or related environment.
  • Experience leading or supervising production employees.
  • Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production flow, and shop-floor execution.
  • Experience managing staffing, production priorities, and changing operational requirements.
  • Experience using manufacturing KPIs (output, yield, scrap, cycle time, downtime, labor efficiency).
  • Strong leadership, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Ability to make timely decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Comfortable using computers and digital manufacturing systems.
  • Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within first 60 days strongly encouraged (required for certain positions).

Skills

Required:Manufacturing leadershipOperations management

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • sick leave
  • holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • group health insurance plans
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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