Production Supervisor - Power Systems Division

Job Description:

In this leadership role, you’ll guide and inspire a team of production employees to achieve goals, drive efficiencies, and deliver results. You’ll play a key role in assigning and monitoring work, resolving challenges, and introducing improvements that make a real difference in operations. Beyond daily oversight, you’ll foster a safe and engaged workplace where employees feel valued, supported, and rewarded for their contributions. You’ll also help develop talent, encourage collaboration, and champion ITW’s culture and values—ensuring they are woven into everyday practices while advancing productivity, quality, and cost performance.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Coach and develop work teams to have positive and proactive attitudes, personal accountability, and superior manufacturing quality as well as encouraging ownership of operations, products, and processes.
• Through employee involvement, the Production Coordinator will lead safety, cost, quality, delivery, and productivity initiatives as well as continue to encourage empowerment and to drive ITW principles as well as 80/20 efforts.
• Build employee relationships through daily, open, and direct communication while empowering teams to achieve manufacturing goals.
• Be visible and approachable, creating an environment of trust and followership.
• Promote an engaged and safe workplace environment and foster a safety-first mindset where employees have accountability for self and others.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering to maintain and improve the manufacturing environment to harmoniously respond to changing customer needs and demands through facilitating area layout, processing plans and selecting equipment to simplify and focus manufacturing processes.
• Drive customer service within all areas of the department.
• Demonstrate and encourage effective communications to personnel at all levels and training employees/team members to resolve conflict in a fair, consistent, and empowered manner within a team environment.
• Develop & support Line Leaders and assess team members’ performance and goals regularly, encouraging the achievement of effective goals.
• Assist/support teams in the utilization of all available resources.
• Participate in committees/teams as required.
• Provide reports on critical information.
• Understand how our factory production system develops and fulfills products.
• Builds a network of inter-company peers and subject matter experts for consultation on best practices for managing people and for system/process efficiency.
• Will work closely with support staff and Human Resources.
• Maintains key contacts with Miller businesses to identify information and resources that provide superior cost, quality, and delivery of our product to our customers

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Ability to maintain a strong culture, while evolving with organizational, workforce demographical, and market changes.
• Ability to lead and work through others to build credibility and followership.
• Business acumen, to include understanding of financial operations and supply chain leverage.
• Proven experience in leading a team in a manufacturing production environment.
• Proven ability to apply lean manufacturing principles and tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of the P&L statement and the manufacturing cost-drivers.
• Skilled at performance management; providing formal and informal feedback to employees
• Possess the track record of a proven leader and team player, demonstrates positive attitude, takes personal accountability, coaches, listens, and resolves issues/conflicts in timely manner.
• Exhibit encouragement of diverse ideas, focus on coaching/developing strengths of team members and facilitate effective communication between shifts
• Be customer-focused with management, support staff, customers and suppliers; understand how the business functions link together to support the customer (i.e. engineering, materials, and sales)
• Strong computer, oral and written communication skills
• Continuing education and/or self-development
• Experience driving employee involvement/engagement and encouraging creativity.
• Bi-lingual (Spanish) candidates are encouraged to apply

ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues’ unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential. 

As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.