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Lead the floor. Drive results. Build the team.
If you thrive in fast-paced manufacturing environments and know how to balance safety, quality, and productivity, this Production Supervisor role puts you at the center of daily operations and people leadership.
Job Title: Production Supervisor Department: Operations
Reports To: Director, Manufacturing FLSA Status: Exempt
Shift: 12hr Nights - 6p-6a - Purple Night Shift Salary: $58,000-$78,000
**Base pay is based on job-related skills, experience, credentials, role scope, and location. Candidates outside the posted range are encouraged to apply, as qualifications and market factors may influence compensation.**
Job Summary:
The Production Supervisor is responsible for leading, coaching, and developing production employees while ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality execution of print manufacturing operations. This role oversees day-to-day production activities, ensures adherence to customer specifications and schedules, and partners closely with the Production Shift Manager to meet delivery, quality, and cost objectives. The Production Supervisor plays a critical role in fostering a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise production employees by interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, assigning work, monitoring performance, and addressing employee relations matters in accordance with company policies and labor requirements.
- Ensure a safe work environment by enforcing safety regulations, conducting regular safety observations, and addressing hazards or unsafe behaviors promptly.
- Plan and adjust staffing levels to meet production schedules, customer mail dates, and workload fluctuations while maintaining labor efficiency.
- Review job documentation, signoffs, and quality checks to ensure printed materials meet customer specifications, postal requirements, and internal quality standards.
- Monitor production schedules and labor hours, estimating and tracking time required to complete jobs and escalating risks to schedule adherence as needed.
- Communicate production performance and personnel issues to the appropriate Leader, including efficiency and reduce waste.
- Identify and recommend improvements to production methods, workflows, equipment utilization, and quality processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste.
- Analyze and resolve operational issues, providing guidance and support to employees to over come production, quality, or equipment-related challenges.
- Motivate and engage employees through effective communication, recognition, coaching, and accountability to achieve performance goals.
- Lead and perform 6S audits within the timeline set by the company, ensuring work areas, equipment, and materials remain compliant throughout each shift.
- Conduct daily production floor walks to perform continuity audits, monitor job progress, and reinforce standard work practices.
- Maintain accurate time, attendance, and production records, ensuring proper reporting of labor and job data.
- Collaborate with other supervisors and department leaders to coordinate interdepartmental activities and resolve production constraints.
- Facilitate and actively participate in cost center meetings, sharing performance results, improvement initiatives, and key operational updates with teams.
Skills Abilities Required:
- Strong ability to analyze problems, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and organize work to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to coach, train and develop production employees.
- Excellent written, verbal and listening skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across shifts and departments.
- Computer proficiency, including production tracking systems, timekeeping, and basic reporting tools.
- Proficiency/fluent with English language, both written and verbal.
o Secondary language in Spanish or others, value added.
Education and Experience:
- High School Diploma or equivalent combined with five (5) plus years’ experience in production management, required.
- Associates degree/technical degree in production planning, operational management, graphic design or related field and/or five plus years related experience including supervision and/or training in manufacturing, production setting; or equivalent, strongly preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of print production processes, including press operations, bindery/finishing, materials and workflow, strongly preferred.
- Basic understanding of Lean manufacturing principles, including 6S, setup reduction (QCO), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
- Familiarity with postal regulation, mail sortation, and quality requirements is a plus.
Benefits
- 100% Employer Paid Life Insurance
- 100% Employer Paid Short Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Other Voluntary Employee Benefits i.e. (Accident & Critical Illness)
- 401K & Profit Sharing with Employer Match
- Sick and Safe time (where applicable by state)
Work Environment and Physical Demands
The work environmental characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job operates in a Manufacturing environment. While performing the duties of this job inside the manufacturing facility, the employee is frequently exposed to normal to moderate working conditions for a manufacturing facility with a noise level that is usually moderate to loud. The role routinely uses printing equipment and machines.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee may be required to stand for long periods of time as well as use hands or fingers to reach or handle, and to reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee will regularly lift 70lbs or more at a time. All vision abilities are required to encompass close-up work. Employees must be able to tolerate and endure extended seasonal hours and maintain alertness to meet deadlines.
Occasionally while performing duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to machinery and moving parts, airborne particles including paper dust and hazardous materials or fumes, which may require the use of PPE. The employee may be exposed to adverse weather conditions, extended seasonal hours, high precarious places, and confined spaces. The nose level in some of the work environments may require the use of hearing protection.
About the Company
Nahan was founded 60 plus years ago by a local family in the heart of Minnesota. It is a deeply human company from how we work with each other, how we serve our clients, to how we reach customers. We provide full service direct marketing with award winning results. Innovation and insight inform everything we do. Our success is rooted in putting people first, doing the right thing for our clients and associates and delivering the highest levels of quality. In a world where personalization and customization are valued above all, we make messages feel personal while keeping the process simple. We’re here to listen to, create and deliver results to our clients. Our winning track record is based on proof, not promises. We consistently deliver big wins, better performance and continual growth for marketers. We’re Nahan-real people making real connections.
Disclaimer
This job description is not a complete description of responsibility but reflects the general qualifications, duties and/or responsibilities necessary to perform this position. All candidates who receive a written offer of employment will be required to successfully complete and pass a background check, a physical test, as well as test for commonly abused controlled substances in accordance with the Company’s Drug Free Workplace Policy. Nahan reserves the right to revise the job description as a circumstance warrant. Nahan is an at-will employer, which means that either the employee or the company may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without notice, and with or without cause.
Base pay is based on job-related skills, experience, credentials, role scope, and location. Candidates outside the posted range are encouraged to apply, as qualifications and market factors may influence compensation.
Nahan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic projected by law.
