Production Supervisor - 1st Shift

North Mankato, MN

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Job Description

As a Production Supervisor with Navitor Folders, you will be a dedicated leader with a clear and strategic vision in excellence and innovation; utilizing skills in communication and organization to ensure goal achievement. You will be responsible for promoting a customer focused environment through employee engagement. You will use lean techniques to analyze and identify gaps in the process. This position requires exceptional communication skills, advanced technical skills, and the ability to support our web-to-ship initiative. You will oversee the day-to-day operations of a team of employees; which includes responsibility for personnel actions, such as, training and development of staff, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring consistent application of organizational policies.

Key Responsibilities

Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures
Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities
Maintains work flow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments
Works with team leads to plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries
Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards
Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, personnel requirements; implementing change
Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and incorporating lean practices
Build working relationships
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Core Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - Friday with some extended hours and Saturday's

Skills/Requirements

High School education or equivalent
Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience desired
2-5 years of leadership experience
Computer skills: Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel
Demonstrated ability to support, communicate, train and translate strategy to team level actions
Excellent written and oral communication
Strong analytical, organizational, leadership and interpersonal skills
Must work well independently and in a group
Self-motivated, has the ability to understand high level goals and translate into actionable task
Able to lead through conflict
Must possess the ability to lead through multiple projects and deadlines concurrently
Demonstrated ability to coach and motivate others
Leads with an atmosphere of team work and cooperation to maintain an effective working environment as well as ensure continuity of service to customers
Ability to stand for up to 8 hours and lift up to 30 pounds

About Navitor

Do you thrive on new growth opportunities, value collaboration and hard work, and believe there is always a better way to serve customers? Navitor is the place for you! Navitor is a leader in the dynamic print industry, and we are looking for candidates with the talent and experience to become a part of our company. Join our team of experts who are redefining what’s possible in the printing industry.

We value a work-life balance and the overall well-being of our employees. You'll see that reflected in our comprehensive benefits package. We offer a competitive benefit package including health, dental & vision insurance, life insurance, 401(k) plan, profit sharing, PTO (paid time off), Holiday pay and other benefits that help inspire our employees to stay and grow with us.

Navitor Inc. is one of America’s largest commercial wholesale printers, delivering innovative programs, services and technologies exclusively to our community of resellers. Headquartered in Minnesota and with manufacturing facilities nationwide, Navitor provides print resellers and distributors the industry’s widest portfolio of personalized print and custom business identity products. Navitor is part of the Taylor Corporation family of companies. For more information, visit our website at Navitor.com.

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