Description
Directly supervise and coordinate daily operations and personnel on a production line to achieve safety, quality, and output goals. May also communicate with customers or internal partners on order status or quality issues. Excludes team or work leaders.
- • Set production schedules, sequences, and shift assignments based on demand, capacity, and operator skills.
- • Monitor operator workloads and review performance and productivity.
- • Inspect the line, equipment, and process data to identify needed adjustments, changeovers, or maintenance.
- • Participate in budget planning; coordinate purchasing and documentation; monitor line expenditures.
- • Coach employees on work-related issues and help correct skill gaps.
- • Requisition materials, components, tools, PPE, and spare parts.
- • Estimate and track costs for materials, labor, scrap, and external services.
- • Interpret job orders, SOPs, and engineering drawings to set up work and instruct staff.
- • Conduct or arrange training in safety, standard work, quality, and equipment use.
- • Investigate incidents or near-misses and prepare reports.
- • Coordinate with management, engineering, quality, supply chain, and labor representatives to resolve issues and align resources.
- • Recommend or initiate hires, promotions, transfers, terminations, or disciplinary actions.
- • Perform line setups, changeovers, and minor adjustments using hand or power tools when needed.
- • Compile and maintain production, quality, downtime, inventory, and timekeeping records.
- • Develop, implement, or evaluate operating procedures, 5S, and preventive maintenance routines for the line.
- • Inspect and measure in-process and finished goods to verify conformance to specifications.
- • Meet with vendors or suppliers to review materials, tooling, and consumables used on the line.
- • Implement or improve production tracking systems, MES, or electronic work instructions.
- • Recommend or adjust workstation layouts, fixtures, and equipment configurations to meet throughput and ergonomic needs.
- • Monitor WIP, component and tooling inventories, and overall line condition to ensure smooth operations.
- • Inspect work areas and equipment and deliver safety training to prevent and correct unsafe conditions or violations.
- • Review, coordinate, and verify completion of contractor work related to line equipment or services.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
