Sort Supervisor

Description

The Sort Supervisor is responsible for directing and overseeing daily sorting, inspection, containment, and rework operations to ensure customer quality requirements are consistently achieved. This position provides hands-on leadership to Sort Operators and Team Leads while maintaining accountability for safety, quality, productivity, employee development, and customer satisfaction. The Sort Supervisor serves as the primary liaison between sorting operations, quality, production, and management teams, ensuring effective communication, timely issue resolution, and adherence to company standards and procedures.

The Sort Supervisor is responsible for planning, organizing, and supervising personnel and resources to achieve operational objectives while fostering a culture of teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and safety.

Requirements

 · Supervise and coordinate daily sorting, inspection, containment, and rework activities to meet customer, quality, and production requirements.

· Plan, assign, and monitor work activities to ensure efficient utilization of personnel and timely completion of assignments.

· Provide leadership, coaching, training, and development to Sort Team Leads and Sort Operators to ensure compliance with inspection methods, quality standards, safety requirements, and company procedures.

· Monitor employee performance, provide feedback, and address performance concerns through coaching, corrective action, and performance improvement initiatives when necessary.

· Participate in employee hiring, onboarding, scheduling, retention, and workforce planning activities.

· Ensure inspection records, quality reports, and departmental documentation are accurate, complete, and maintained in a timely manner.

· Investigate quality concerns, identify trends, implement corrective actions, and communicate results with internal and external stakeholders.

· Serve as the primary point of contact between sorting operations, Quality, Production, customers, and management regarding inspection activities, quality issues, and containment efforts.

· Monitor productivity, quality performance, attendance, and labor utilization while supporting continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

· Enforce company safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements while maintaining a safe, organized work environment and ensuring proper use and care of inspection equipment and tools.

· Employee is responsible for ensuring all environmental practices are in line with job scope / position. Examples include but not limited to: proper waste disposal practices, reporting of spills, non-compliance to permit, and addressing any improper practices.

· Assumes additional duties as assigned, which may fall outside the primary scope of the role.