Your Impact:
As a Production Supervisor, you will lead your shift with a focus on safety, quality, and productivity while driving a disciplined, high-performance culture. You will develop your team, enforce standard work, and respond to downtime and process variation with urgency. By identifying and eliminating waste, you will play a key role in improving reliability and delivering results against critical KPIs.
Key Responsibilities:- Drive a strong safety culture, ensuring adherence to all safety procedures and policies
- Lead, coach, and develop your team to achieve daily production goals
- Support the area leaders and managers to achieve team objectives
- Monitor production performance and respond to downtime, quality issues, and inefficiencies in real time
- Coordinate with maintenance, quality, and scheduling teams to ensure smooth operations
- Communicate priorities, issues, and expectations to the plant floor
- Enforce standard work and drive accountability to established processes
- Support training and onboarding of new employees
- Participate in Emergency Response Team (ERT) and support cross-functional initiatives
- Ensure proper documentation and shift handoff communication
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain, or related field (or equivalent experience)1–3 years of manufacturing experience with leadership responsibilities
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement practices preferred, but not required
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to lead and motivate teams with a positive, proactive attitude
- Flexibility to work rotating 12-hour shifts
- High level of initiative, organization, and emotional intelligence
- Proven ability to resolve personnel issues and foster a respectful, inclusive team environment. What Success Looks Like in This RoleTeam is engaged, trained, and held accountable
- Production targets are consistently met or exceeded
- Downtime and quality issues are addressed quickly and effectively
- Safety incidents are minimized through proactive leadership
- Continuous improvement ideas are actively identified and implemented
- What We Can Offer You: Benefits are the game changer!
- We value our employee's health and happiness by providing new hires benefit eligibility on the 1st of the month following date of hire. Our benefits may include: Competitive medical, dental, life, AD&D, and vision insurance plans.24/7 onsite fitness center, free of charge.
Generous annual time off allotment, including vacation (based on company service), parental leave, paid volunteer time, sick or emergency time, and 12 holidays. Tuition reimbursement (up to $5,250 per year), scholarships for dependents, monthly cell phone reimbursement (professional positions), and annual steel toe and prescription safety glasses reimbursement.401(k), Health Savings Account Plan (HSA), Employee Assistance Program (available to employees and their families), annual bonus program, referral bonus program (up to $1,750), STD, LTD, and much more!
Who We Are:
We are the North American leader in specialty and high-performance coatings for thermal label and film applications. Founded in 1907, Appvion innovates sustainable specialty coating solutions that are a part of many tickets, tags, labels, and packages consumers touch daily. Our solutions leverage a unique blend of proprietary processes and technical expertise to provide crisp imaging, which ensures reliable barcode scannability and consistent image quality for pressure-sensitive and non-pressure-sensitive applications. Appvion brands include Resiste®, Alpha®, PolyTherm®, Royale®, and OPTIMA®. The Fine Print A post-offer background check, and drug screen is required. Appvion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact human resources at recruiter@appvion.com.Job Summary
Requisition Number: PRODU001307Job Category: Production \& Operations
Schedule: Full-Time
