Production Supervisor

Job Purpose :

To supervise and coordinate daily production activities, ensuring production targets, product quality, and safety standards are achieved. Manage production staff, monitor workflow, control material usage, minimize wastage, and ensure smooth and efficient production operations.

Roles & responsibilities :

• Execute approved production schedules, formulas, quantities, and packaging specifications.
• Supervise production staff, allocate tasks, monitor performance, and provide training.
• Coordinate material availability with Warehouse and reconcile quantities issued, consumed, returned, and wasted against actual output.
• Take full responsibility for all production-related ERP transactions, including production orders, material consumption, returns, wastage, finished-goods receipts, and transfers. Ensure accurate, timely entries and reconciliation with physical quantities and batch records.
• Maintain complete batch records and traceability of raw materials and finished goods.
• Verify filling quantities, closures, leakage, labels, batch coding, and packing quality.
• Ensure line clearance and equipment cleaning between products, fragrances, and batches.
• Stop production when safety or quality issues arise, segregate affected products, and coordinate corrective action. Ensure finished goods receive QC approval before release.
• Monitor equipment performance and coordinate maintenance and repairs.
• Enforce PPE, chemical-handling, housekeeping, fire, and spill procedures.
• Report output, wastage, rework, downtime, shortages, and discrepancies to the Factory Manager.
• Obtain approval before changing formulas, substituting materials, or making stock adjustments.

Education & Requirements :

1. Diploma or degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, or a related field.
2. 3–5 years of relevant production experience, including team supervision.
3. Filling and packaging experience in fragrance, home-care, cosmetics, or similar manufacturing is preferred.
4. Knowledge of ERP production transactions, batch traceability, material reconciliation, quality, and safety.
5. Good leadership, reporting, Excel, and problem-solving skills.