Job Description

Production Supervisor

We are seeking a driven and experienced Production Supervisor to join our dynamic team in Pelzer, SC, supporting Vertiv's rapidly expanding production operations. This is a critical leadership role within our manufacturing facility, focused on driving operational excellence, employee engagement, safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Lead and manage 1st shift production operations to ensure finished products are completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with production schedules, quality standards, work instructions, and customer requirements. Provide day-to-day leadership for production employees, coordinate staffing and workflow, reinforce standard work, resolve production barriers, and support communication between shifts and departments.

Responsibilities:

• Shift Leadership: Supervise production employees, ensuring the team is aligned to daily safety, quality, delivery, and productivity expectations.
• Line Management: Ensure proper staffing across production areas, adjusting workforce allocation based on schedules, priorities, attendance, material availability, and changing operational needs.
• Quality Assurance: Reinforce adherence to work instructions, blueprints, quality checkpoints, standard operating procedures, and customer specifications to ensure finished goods meet required standards.
• Team Communication: Lead daily shift Tier meetings to communicate production targets, safety expectations, quality concerns, schedule changes, and process updates to production employees.
• Performance Management: Monitor team performance, provide timely coaching and feedback, address attendance or conduct concerns, and recognize positive performance and teamwork.
• Resource Allocation: Direct workflow across assigned production areas, ensuring employees have the materials, tools, information, and equipment needed to perform work safely and efficiently.
• Shift Handover: Conduct comprehensive shift-change briefings with incoming or outgoing supervisors to review staffing, production status, quality issues, material shortages, downtime, and priority work.
• Problem Solving: Respond to production issues, remove barriers, escalate concerns as needed, and coordinate with support teams to minimize downtime and maintain schedule adherence.
• Cost Control: Monitor labor hours and support efficient use of overtime through effective staffing plans, line balancing, and timely resolution of bottlenecks.
• Shift Readiness: Verify that work areas, staffing assignments, tools, equipment, materials, and documentation are ready prior to shift startup.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with production management, engineering, quality, materials, maintenance, safety, and HR to execute operational priorities and resolve shift-level concerns.
• Data Reporting: Maintain and accurately report shift metrics, including safety, quality, output, labor utilization, downtime, and schedule performance.
• 5S & Safety: Maintain a clean, organized, and hazard-free work environment while enforcing company safety policies, PPE requirements, incident reporting expectations, and safe work practices.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve workflow, reduce waste, strengthen standard work, improve employee engagement, and increase operational efficiency.
• Leadership Backup: Assume operational responsibility for assigned production areas during the absence of the Production Manager or other site leadership as needed.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Three or more years of leadership experience in a manufacturing, production, distribution, construction, industrial, or similar operations environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage daily production priorities, coach employees, and maintain accountability for safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.
• Strong understanding of general manufacturing safety practices, OSHA requirements, PPE expectations, incident reporting, and hazard recognition.
• Ability to read and interpret work instructions, production schedules, engineer drawings, standard operating procedures, and quality documentation.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills in a fast-paced production environment.
• Basic proficiency with MS Office products, including Excel, Outlook, and Word.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous supervisory experience in a high-mix, high-growth, or fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience using production metrics, visual management, Tier meetings, or daily management systems to drive accountability and improvement.
• Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, root cause problem solving, standard work, or continuous improvement tools.
• Experience partnering with quality, materials, maintenance, engineering, safety, and HR functions to resolve operational issues.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to build trust, set expectations, develop employees, and reinforce a positive shift culture.

Education and Certifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate degree in Electrical Technology or a related technical field is preferred but not required.
• Supervisory, Lean manufacturing, OSHA, safety, or other operations-related certifications are a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Heavy Lifting (up to 50 lbs.).
• Frequent standing and walking across the production floor.

Environmental Demands:

• Working around moving machinery, test bays, and forklifts.
• Protective Equipment Required (safety glasses, steel-toe shoes, etc.).

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• High-Performance Culture

• Customer Focus

• Operational Excellence

• Innovation

• Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com.

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