Production Supervisor - Dayshift
Hayward, California, United States$113.8k - $146.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Experienced Production Supervisor to lead day-to-day manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, quality, output, cost, and schedule objectives. Partners with cross-functional teams to drive performance, continuous improvement, and readiness for production.
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 material, quality, equipment, process, or staffing constraints.
- Develop recovery plans when production falls behind schedule.
- Maintain strong 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 clear expectations and provide coaching and actionable performance feedback.
- Address productivity, quality, attendance, and performance concerns promptly.
- Support onboarding and develop production leads and high-performing team members.
- Foster a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, respect, and continuous improvement.
- Track manufacturing metrics (output, build plan attainment, FPY, yield, scrap/rework, cycle time, labor efficiency, downtime, attendance, training compliance).
- Review performance and take corrective action when needed.
- Ensure teams follow work instructions, standard work, and quality requirements.
- Partner with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering to investigate defects and recurring issues.
- Support root-cause analysis, containment, and corrective actions to reduce losses.
- Ensure materials, tooling, equipment, documentation, staffing, and training are ready to support production.
- Collaborate with Planning, Supply Chain, and Materials to resolve shortages and constraints.
- Serve as primary Production representative for assigned areas.
- Communicate production status, risks, staffing constraints, material shortages, and equipment concerns to leadership.
- Support NPI and pilot builds as new products transition to sustained production.
- Maintain effective communication and handoffs between shifts and areas.
- Identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, production flow, and cost.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering on line balancing, standard work, workstation optimization, and process improvements.
- Support Lean Manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Use data and operator feedback to identify root causes and drive improvements.
- Help standardize successful processes and best practices 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:Leadership and People ManagementManufacturing KPIsShop Floor Execution
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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