Production Supervisor

Description

Position Title: Production (Crating) Supervisor

Department: Container Production 

FLSA Status: Full Time, Non-Exempt (overtime eligible)

Company Summary: We are a well-established company serving the Aerospace, Medical, and High-Tech Industries in Colorado with high-touch custom packaging, professional services, and logistic solutions. Creating opportunities and overcoming challenges is what drives us to provide clients with the necessary people, services, and equipment for every job. We are an organization that commits to its team members, maintaining a safe and fun environment while treating everyone as a valued individual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veteran status. Full benefits are available to full-time team members, including paid sick leave and vacation, medical/vision/dental, company-funded life insurance and 401(k).

Position Summary: As Production Supervisor, you’ll lead MM Solutions’ crating production team of 8–10 crew members and a Team Lead, turning custom designs into quality crates that protect our customers’ valuable equipment. You’ll coordinate people, materials, and schedules to meet production goals while maintaining a safe, organized workplace.

You’ll also help shape the department’s future by developing team members, planning resources, and improving production processes. Working closely with Design and Customer Service, you’ll ensure designs can be built efficiently, anticipate challenges, and strengthen the team’s ability to deliver consistent quality and meet customer commitments.

Requirements

What you’ll lead

Build a capable, accountable team

• Lead production crew members, team leads, and new product introduction builders—the employees who build initial versions of new crate designs.
• Set clear priorities through daily team standups, effective delegation, and consistent follow-through.
• Coach team members, support team lead, and address performance concerns promptly and respectfully.
• Participate in hiring, develop onboarding and training plans, and build skills across the department.
• Hold regular individual check-ins and annual performance reviews that give employees useful feedback and clear development goals.

Plan production and anticipate challenges

• Coordinate people, materials, tools, and schedules to meet customer commitments.
• Work with team lead to balance workloads, resolve bottlenecks, and prepare for changing production demands, potentially including a second shift when needed.
• Partner with Design to ensure crate designs can be built safely, consistently, and efficiently.
• Coordinate material needs with Design and Customer Service, identifying shortages or other risks early.
• Contribute to department strategy, including staffing, training, equipment, and capacity planning.

Use data and employee ideas to improve results

• Analyze production data to identify trends, understand recurring problems, and prioritize improvements.
• Apply Lean manufacturing methods to reduce waste, improve workflow, and make work easier to perform correctly.
• Strengthen workplace organization through 5S: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain.
• Involve team members in solving problems and evaluating whether changes improve safety, quality, and productivity.
• Ensure drawings, bills of materials, cut lists, and marked-up design changes stay accurate and reach the Design team.

Set the standard for safety and quality

• Reinforce safe work practices and ensure employees receive training on tools, equipment, and job procedures.
• Coordinate maintenance of shop tools and equipment.
• Support the company’s ISO 9001 quality management system through consistent processes and accurate documentation.
• Earn company-required forklift qualifications and operate equipment safely when needed.
• Model integrity, teamwork, and leadership that gives employees the direction and support to succeed.
• Promote and embody all the internal and external company values (aka "Anchors"), emphasize servant leadership, encourage others to live a "we culture," share ideas for innovation, and always lead with integrity.
•  Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience supervising people in manufacturing, production, or a related hands-on environment.
• Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to balance immediate needs and longer-term priorities.
• A practical coaching style and confidence setting expectations, delegating work, and holding people accountable.
• Experience coordinating production work and using data to solve problems.
• Working knowledge of production tools, equipment, and safe operating practices.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across departments.
• Comfort using Microsoft Office, including Excel, and learning systems such as Salesforce.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience is preferred.

Education and Experience Preferred:

•  2 or 4 -year degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
•  Previous experience managing people

Physical Requirements:

You’ll work in a fast-paced production shop with regular time on the floor, frequent standing and walking, and hands-on involvement as needed. 

• Ability to lift and carry 75+lbs Between 10-20 times a day. 
• Above the waist 50lbs+ between 10-20 times a day: 25%-49%
• Standing and/or walking all day long: 50%-74%
• Seeing, and feeling including depth perception and color vision for driving: 50%-74%
• Pull and push > 200 lbs Between 10-25 times a day: 25%-49%
• Squatting, bending, kneeling: 0%-24%

The physical requirements listed describe the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. Applicants who need an accommodation during the application or interview process may contact Human Resources at [email protected]

Additional Requirements:

• Employer is a drug-free workplace, and candidate must pass a pre-hire background check and drug screen. We do not discriminate in hiring on any basis, including citizenship, and our job postings are open to U.S. citizens as well as non-U.S. citizens. 
• The person hired will have access to information and items protected under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), and therefore that person must be a “U.S. person” as that term is defined under ITAR, 22 CFR 120.15.
• A “U.S. person is defined as a 1) U.S. Citizen, 2) a lawful permanent resident, 3) a refugee given asylum in the U.S., or 4) a temporary resident granted amnesty. Accordingly, it will be necessary for our company to confirm and verify your status as a “U.S. person” under ITAR at the time of hire.