Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

About the Opportunity

Carlisle Brake & Friction is seeking an experienced Production Supervisor to lead manufacturing operations at our Medina, Ohio facility. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for building a strong safety culture, developing employees, achieving production goals, and driving measurable improvements in quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.

The ideal candidate is a visible, results-oriented leader who holds people accountable, recognizes strong performance, solves problems at the source, and works effectively across departments.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead, coach, and develop production employees to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity goals.

· Plan daily staffing and work assignments based on production requirements, employee capabilities, and equipment availability.

· Promote and enforce safe work practices, including PPE, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and plant safety procedures.

· Monitor production output, downtime, scrap, rework, labor efficiency, and schedule attainment.

· Use data and structured root-cause methods to resolve equipment, process, quality, and workflow issues.

· Drive Lean manufacturing initiatives, including 6S, standard work, visual management, kaizen, waste reduction, and continuous improvement.

· Partner with Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Materials, Supply Chain, and Human Resources to resolve operational issues.

· Set clear employee expectations and provide timely coaching, recognition, performance feedback, and corrective action.

· Coordinate employee onboarding, training, cross-training, and skills development.

· Ensure accurate production reporting, timekeeping, attendance tracking, and shift handoffs.

· Maintain a clean, organized, safe, and audit-ready production environment.