Production Control Supervisor at Traffix Devices – San Clemente, California

Job Summary:

The Production Control Supervisor is responsible for overseeing day-to-day assembly operations while providing direct leadership over production planning, order prioritization, and schedule execution to ensure safe, efficient, and on time delivery of customer orders. This role serves as a key operational liaison between Production, Planning, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Engineering, and Operations Leadership to align capacity, materials, and labor with business demand.

This role ensures production schedules are achievable, materials and resources are available, and work is released in a disciplined and controlled manner to support plant(s) throughput and quality objectives. In addition to supervising manufacturing execution on the floor, the role drives proactive identification changes that can impact delivery. The Supervisor identifies areas in need of improvement efforts focused on production efficiency, schedule adherence, workflow stability. The Production Control Supervisor is also responsible for training staff and ensuring that all employees receive the support and guidance necessary to meet performance expectations.

Essential Functions:

• Supervises daily manufacturing operations, ensuring production is executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with production schedule and Kanban levels.
• Ensures labor, equipment, and materials are aligned to meet daily and weekly production targets.
• Identifies and resolves manufacturing constraints, disruptions, or inefficiencies impacting throughput or delivery.
• Supervises and provides day to day direction to production associates, ensuring PPE practice adherence and achievement of production goals.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and guidance to production associates to improve performance, engagement, and accountability.
• Monitor attendance, work practices, and compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards, addressing issues as needed.
• Support training, cross-training, and development of production associates to build flexibility and capability within the operation. Deploys (CI) Continuous Improvement principles to production teams, actively involving associates in Kaizen activities, standard work improvements, and problem solving to support safety, quality, delivery and cost objectives.
• Partners with Production Leads, Peers, Managers to drive schedule adherence, quality, and productivity.
• Escalates capacity, labor, or equipment risks to operations leadership with recommended countermeasures.
• Owns and maintains the master production schedule, ensuring alignment with customer demand, material availability, and production capacity.
• Reviews, releases, and prioritizes production jobs based on order urgency and operational constraints.
• Plans and organizes manufacturing workflow by coordinating labor, equipment, and schedules to support safe, efficient, and balanced production.
• Monitor schedule adherence and identifies risks to customer delivery commitments, developing recovery plans as needed.
• Communicate potential performance problems due to material shortages to supply chain, customer service, and logistics departments.
• Coordinate material transfers between various plants to ensure customer commit dates are met.
• Maintain constant communication with supply chain, customer service, manufacturing, and engineering departments to ensure alignment and resolve issues.
• Provides clear and timely communication when orders are delayed or at risk, including root cause explanations and revised commitments.
• Identifies misalignment impacting manufacturing execution and partners with Engineering to drive resolution.
• Generate daily production reports to ensure internal & external commitments are met.
• Provides oversight and direction to planning and scheduling personnel, ensuring adherence to planning standards and processes.
• Kanban implementation, stabilization and routine maintenance.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement related to production flow, planning accuracy, and interdepartmental communication and partners with leadership to implement improvement.
• Monitor and ensure production is on time to meet customer expectations, escalate accordingly.

General Functions:

• Collaborates with other members of the team to ensure that deadlines are met, and products are delivered on time.
• Consistently abides by established safety rules, procedures, and regulations including wearing required safety equipment such as safety shoes and glasses.
• Maintains a clean and organized work environment.
• Identifies and reports quality or safety issues to supervisor or manager.
• Works effectively with co-workers and supervisors, sharing knowledge, resources, and experience to achieve production goals in a timely fashion, while promoting respect, communication, and teamwork.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Skills and Abilities:

• Attention to detail: The ability to perform tasks with precision, accuracy, and thoroughness, paying close attention to all aspects of the work and identifying and correcting errors or inconsistencies as needed.
• Communication skills: The ability to convey and receive information effectively, clearly, and professionally with co-workers and supervisors.
• Leadership: ability to lead, influence, and drive accountability within the planning function and across manufacturing.
• Initiative: Recognizes situations that warrant initiative and moves forward without hesitation; reasonably resolves issues, problems, and situations.
• Time management skills: The ability to prioritize tasks, plan and organize work efficiently, and meet deadlines while maintaining quality standards.
• Technical Aptitude: proficiency in ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft applications.
• Critical thinking: The ability to analyze complex situations, evaluate information, identify potential problems, and make informed decisions that support the department's goals and objectives.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing operations
• At least two years of supervisory experience.

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Note: The company is committed to providing a safe work environment and will provide necessary equipment and training to meet the physical demands of the job.

• Physical dexterity: The employee must be able to bend, twist, and reach while handling objects. The employee is also required to stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, and to hear. About 50% of the employees’ time will be spent sitting at a desk using a computer. The employee will need the ability to use a mouse and keyboard for a large portion of the day.
• Lifting: The employee must be able to lift and move objects weighing up to 50 lbs. infrequently.
• Vision: The vision requirements for this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Exposure to elements: The employee will be working in a warehouse environment and may be exposed to varying temperatures and inclement weather conditions. There will also be frequent exposure to dirt and dust.
• Noise level: The employee will be exposed to a moderate noise level in the workplace for most of the day, due to the constant use of forklift and hand-held power tools.

EEO Statement:

The Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.