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POSITION OVERVIEW
The Production Variable Overhead Supervisor supports daily production operations by maintaining operational discipline, manpower readiness, associate accountability, training execution, safety participation, audit completion, permit compliance, consumable supply readiness, and housekeeping standards within assigned process areas. The Production Variable Overhead Supervisor provides primary focus on manpower, operating discipline, training coordination, safety participation, auditing, and area standards. This role reports to the Operations and/or Production Manager. The work schedule for the role is Monday – Friday on 1st shift, may have outside hours and/or calls. Annual salary ranging from $62,400 to $72,800, depending on experience and qualifications, with additional overtime compensation available.
SPECIFIC DUTIES
Operational Discipline and Manpower Leadership
- Own the manpower schedule for assigned production areas, including maintaining daily schedule visibility, identifying coverage gaps, overtime, training time, and making adjustments to support production needs.
- Review and approve production associate timesheets weekly, following up on missing, inaccurate, or incomplete entries before approval deadlines.
- Perform daily production schedule check-ins focused on manpower readiness, timing compliance, associate assignments, and execution barriers that could affect schedule adherence.
- Provide weekend coverage on a rotating basis to support manpower continuity, operator accountability, audit completion, safety expectations, and daily operating discipline.
- Administer operator coaching including semiannual reviews, corrective follow-up, and discipline as directed by production leadership and in alignment with company policy.
- Document and communicate recurring issues related to attendance, manpower coverage, schedule compliance, training completion, audit completion, permit execution, safety participation, and housekeeping standards.
Training, New Hire Support, and Associate Readiness
- Track associate training progress, including completion status, overdue items, training-day needs, and required follow-up to maintain training compliance.
- Coordinate and support new hire orientation for production associates, including required safety, process-area, and site expectation topics assigned to the role.
- Provide oversight and management of training days to ensure associates, trainers, and production leadership have clear expectations and that scheduled training time is used effectively.
- Communicate training progress, training gaps, and certification needs to production leadership and appropriate support roles.
Safety Participation, Process Safety Audits, and Permit Discipline
- Promote associate safety participation through the site safety points system and communicate participation expectations to production associates.
- Complete daily process safety auditing within assigned process areas and follow up on findings, concerns, or required corrective actions.
- Assign and track completion of the process auditing system for assigned process areas, including follow-up on incomplete, overdue, or deficient audits.
- Audit permits while work is in progress and after completion to verify expectations are being followed and documented appropriately.
- Review SPIs and communicate relevant safety, process, or procedural changes and expectation to production associates.
- Reinforce company policies, site procedures, and management expectations during routine production follow-up.
Area Standards, Supplies, and Housekeeping
- Maintain accountability for overall housekeeping of assigned process areas and follow up with associates and production leadership on required improvements.
- Track consumable production supplies and follow up to ensure routine supplies are available before production execution is impacted.
- Monitor daily area readiness, including operator coverage, housekeeping expectations, audit status, training needs, and operating-standard compliance.
Coordination with Production Facilitator
- Coordinate with the Production Facilitator on daily production status, ensuring that manpower, training, audit, permit, and discipline-related actions are aligned with process, raw material, SAP, troubleshooting, and quality support needs.
- Escalate processing concerns, quality concerns, batch execution issues, SAP needs, raw-material issues, or technical troubleshooting needs to the Production Facilitator or appropriate production leadership.
- Support clear handoffs between operational-discipline items and process/quality/raw-material items so production issues are addressed appropriately.
Other
- Complete assigned audits and follow-up activities within required timeframes.
- Request technical, HR, safety, or management assistance when needed.
- Responsible for handling other duties assigned by the Operations Manager or Production Manager.
QUALIFICATIONS- REQUIRED
- 2+ years of experience as a supervisor in a manufacturing environment or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
- Demonstrated ability to lead production associates through clear expectations, consistent follow-up, and disciplined execution of operating standards.
- Working knowledge of production operations, manpower scheduling, timekeeping expectations, safety requirements, training systems, permit expectations, and housekeeping standards.
- Ability to partner effectively with the Production Facilitator while maintaining clear role boundaries between operational discipline/manpower ownership and process troubleshooting, SAP support, raw-material readiness, and quality support.
- Computer proficiency with Microsoft products and site systems used for scheduling, timekeeping, training records, auditing, safety communication, and production follow-up.
- Ability to communicate clearly with operators, production leadership, Process Facilitators, safety support, HR, and other support functions.
- Ability to administer coaching, corrective follow-up, and disciplinary actions in alignment with company policies and management direction (Classes will be assigned for development and must be completed).
ADA JOB REQUIREMENTS
Ability to sit down at least
Ability to stand while working at least
Ability to move throughout the plant at least
Ability to lift to at least 65 lbs. without assistance
Ability to walk upstairs or use ladders at some frequency
Visual acuity adequate to perform job duties, including reading information from printed sources and computer screens at least
Ability to make decisions, reason and understand information
Milliken is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, including but not limited to lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To request a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, a job interview, or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact [email protected].
