Manufacturing Supervisor

We are seeking a highly skilled Production Operations Manager to oversee the overall operations of specific areas, ensuring production goals, consistent quality standards, and customer delivery requirements are met. As a key member of our team, you will lead team members and organize workflows in complex assembly operations.

• Production Planning: Review production orders or schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products, ensuring meeting scheduled delivery dates to plan department operations.
• Team Leadership: Plan production operations by establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products, ensuring successful team operations by communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results, coaching, counseling, and disciplining team members.
• Staff Management: Maintain staff by selecting and training team members, then developing personal growth opportunities, collaborating with nearby departments to ensure production goals are met.
• Quality Control: Maintain quality of product by establishing and enforcing organization standards, ensuring operation of equipment by calling for repairs, evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Reporting and Analysis: Provide manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data, answering questions and responding to requests.
• Process Improvement: Create and revise systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements, implementing change.
• Leadership Responsibilities: Directly supervise department teams, carrying out supervisory responsibilities following Whisker policies and applicable laws, including interviewing, training, and hiring, planning, assigning and directing work, appraising performance, addressing team issues, and upholding safety and quality guidelines.

• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• 5+ years of experience managing people and teams is preferred.
• Exhibits Whisker Core Values (Empower, Understanding, Tenacity, Innovative, and Anticipatory).
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to organize and evaluate programs, records, and documents.
• Ability to pay attention to detail and accurately record data.
• Ability to respond courteously and knowledgeably to the needs of all internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions.
• High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others.
• Ability to provide a working atmosphere that is positive and productive.
• Ability to develop and implement effective staff training procedures.
• Ability to hold others accountable to standards and expectations.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with team members and colleagues.
• Promote safety and housekeeping policies and guidelines, including associate education and employee empowerment.
• Ability to effectively communicate through department and one-on-one meetings.
• Maintains confidentiality of proprietary information.
• Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions.
• A high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with Team Members and colleagues.

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred.
• Working experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• LEAN practice and event experience.

• Premium Medical/Dental/Vision insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Whisker Parents Program.
• 1 day 'pawternity' leave for new pet adoption.
• Pet Insurance.
• 401K match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Company-paid short-term disability and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Generous paid time off.
• 14 Paid Holidays.
• Top of the line equipment.
• Pet-friendly office.
• Whisker products and swag.
• Continuing education Support.
• On-site gym with Peloton.
• Referral program.