Production Supervisor - Night Shift

Location: Fairfield, Ohio
Business Unit: DSG-Canusa
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Work Model: Onsite
Shift: C-Shift, 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., 12-hour 2-2-3 schedule, including every other weekend

Impact of this Role

As Production Supervisor, you will provide daily leadership and longer-term direction for the production team, helping the facility achieve its operational goals. You will influence production performance, safety, product quality, schedule execution, employee development, and continuous improvement through hands-on leadership and close partnership with Planning, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, and HR.

Your decisions will directly affect key operating measures, including on-time shipping, schedule adherence, scrap, overall equipment effectiveness, run rates, and labor utilization.

What Success Looks Like

• Lead shift performance to achieve throughput, scrap, run-rate, schedule-adherence, and equipment-utilization targets.
• Maintain HSE requirements across the employees and production areas under your supervision.
• Reinforce adherence to the Quality Management System and applicable Control Plans.
• Partner with Planning to address schedule requirements and make timely adjustments when materials, equipment, or labor constraints arise.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Maintenance, Safety, Planning, and Quality to resolve operating issues.
• Participate in customer-complaint and non-conformance processes with the production and Quality teams.
• Submit maintenance work orders and coordinate with Maintenance during preventive-maintenance cycles.
• Establish an effective daily communication cadence through team meetings and shift direction.
• Coach, guide, and develop production employees and Shift Leads.
• Lead or participate in continuous-improvement initiatives while sustaining current 5S standards.
• Make sound decisions regarding staffing, schedule changes, manufacturing-process issues, safety concerns, quality concerns, and production capacity.

What You Bring to the Role

• High school diploma required; community college or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Formal training in Continuous Improvement.
• Six Sigma White Belt or Green Belt preferred.
• One to two years of supervisory experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Strong knowledge of safety principles and 5S standards.
• Knowledge of continuous-improvement methods, including 8D and 5 Why.
• Ability to actively listen and communicate effectively with employees, customers, and business partners.
• Ability to establish priorities, develop practical solutions, and act with urgency.
• Professionalism and steady performance when working under pressure.
• Sound judgment in root-cause analysis, manufacturing troubleshooting, labor and equipment planning, employee coaching, and schedule management.
• A leadership approach grounded in team building, coaching, adaptability, collaboration, decision-making, safety intervention, initiative, and constructive performance under pressure.

This is a hands-on position that operates approximately 75% on the plant floor and 25% in an office environment.

Why Join Mattr

• Medical, dental and vision coverage with HSA contributions
• 401(k) with company match, vested immediately
• Attractive incentive bonus plans
• Employer-paid Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Wellness incentives
• Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts on fitness, shopping and travel through Blue365, LifeMart and more

For 50+ years we’ve delivered highly engineered technologies and solutions to support infrastructure projects around the world. You can find our brands in energy, automotive, communication, water management, utilities and transportation markets to name a few other industries.

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