Sr. Supervisor, Plant (Denison, TX)

Job Summary

The Sr. Supervisor, Plant oversees daily production and limited warehouse/distribution activities at a small-scale site, ensuring safe, efficient, cost effective and on-time delivery of quality products to customers. This role directly supervises a cross-functional team of employees (such as Manufacturing Lead/Warehouse Lead, production operators, material handlers, shipping clerks), with an emphasis on scheduling, workflow coordination, inventory accuracy, and adherence to safety and quality standards. This role leads all site personnel, including production, warehouse, distribution, and support associates, with responsibilities inclusive of all aspects of site performance, such as production, inventory control, logistics, materials management, and planning. The Sr. Supervisor, Plant fosters a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration across production and distribution functions while supporting business goals and customer requirements.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• (25%) Supervise daily production and distribution activities, ensuring products are manufactured to quality standards, handled safely, and shipped on time. Coordinate work schedule with the Manufacturing and Warehouse Leads to maintain balanced and efficient workflow in meeting customer commitments.
• (10%) Oversee material flow from receipt through production and shipment. Coordinate order flow using simple wave planning concepts to optimize picking and reduce congestion.
• (10%) Maintain accurate inventory records through regular cycle counts and effective supplier coordination, minimizing excess and obsolescence while ensuring material availability. Own inventory control at the line and in staging/warehouse areas: validate basic WMS transactions (receipts, moves, picks, shipments) and reconcile variances.
• (15%) Drive lean and process improvement initiatives across production and distribution. Engage team members in problem-solving to eliminate waste, improve throughput, and enhance product and service quality. Monitor operational spending and drive cost improvement initiatives. Support benchmarking and best practice sharing to ensure the site remains competitive in quality, cost, and delivery.
• (15%) Monitor key performance metrics—including safety, quality, productivity, delivery, and inventory accuracy—and ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory standards. Use data-driven insights to drive accountability and continuous improvement. Ensure product quality through standard work, first-article/line checks, and prompt containment and corrective actions for defects or process deviations.
• (10%) Serve as the central point of contact for the site. Maintain accurate operational records (OEE, inventory, safety) to support compliance and business performance. Communicate performance goals, priorities, and results to employees and senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment across all operations.
• (10%) Provide coaching, feedback, and development opportunities to strengthen individual and team capability. Foster a culture of engagement, accountability, and respect.
• (5%) Lead safety practices and compliance with OSHA and company policies. Conduct incident reviews and ensure proper PPE and housekeeping.

Education and Experience Profile

• High school diploma required, associate or bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field preferred.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in manufacturing/production or distribution operations, with exposure to supervisory or coordinator roles.
• At least 2 years of experience directly supervising or leading small teams with accountability for safety, quality, and delivery.
• Experience in production, inventory control and basic WMS usage, materials management, and administrative functions in a manufacturing/production or warehouse environment.

Required Skills

Technical/Functional Competencies:

• Experience in a small-scale or high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Basic understanding of financial metrics, such as cost control and inventory management.
• Familiarity with lean principles and continuous improvement practices.
• Proficiency in administrative tasks, including scheduling, reporting, and record-keeping.
• Exposure to materials management and supply chain coordination.
• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; speak effectively before groups of employees and upper management.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply basic algebra and geometry concepts.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and address a variety of concrete variables where limited standardization exists; interpret written, oral, or diagrammatic instructions.

Leadership/Cultural Competencies:

• Achieving Commitments - Always understands our desired outcome.  Consistently delivers on both our individual and collective commitments in disciplined ways.
• Great People - Hires, develops, leads and retains the most capable, motivated, and ethical people.  Successfully resolves performance issues if and when they occur.  Acts with integrity.
• Raise The Bar - Does better every time and every day in every situation.  Creates and accomplishes continually increasing standards of excellence.
• Focus - Identifies key priorities and takes action to drive priorities to successful completion.  Does first things first, then second things second, etc.
• Boundarylessness - Works in the best interests of all - within and across functions, levels.  When something is broken, regardless of responsibility, takes the action needed to fix it.
• Attitude - Consistently demonstrates, inspires and takes pride in all that we do.  Capitalizes on the opportunities that exist in every situation.  Never accepts CANNOT DO!
• High Energy - Consistently demonstrates exceptional enthusiasm, energy, and drive.
• Urgency - Does what can and should be done right now as quickly and effectively as possible.
• Risk Taking – Takes reasonable and well thought through risks.  If mistakes occur initially, learns from them to increase future success.  Takes initiative and isn’t afraid to take untested or new approaches and actions.
• Impact vs. Activity - Does what’s important and worth doing as efficiently as possible.  Always eliminates wasteful or redundant activity and effort.

Values and Behaviors:

• Ownership: Ensures alignment with company interests; plans for long-term success; pursues the best interests of the business.
• Teamwork: Partners with peers to succeed together; communicate via candid and respectful discussions; seeks best practices for continuous improvement.
• Agility: Adjusts rapidly to changing conditions; embraces modern technology and methods; succeeds in ambiguous situations through flexibility and creativity.

Work Environment:

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment and non-climate-controlled manufacturing facility.
• Must be able to occasionally travel domestically.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

ASSA ABLOY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.