2nd Shift Paint Supervisor
Paint Supervisor
Brief Job Summary:
The Paint Supervisor oversees the Paint load/Unload team to schedule and monitor workflow, manage material movement, and ensure continuous operations throughout the production cycles. This role is responsible for maintaining a smooth, efficient facility while ensuring a safe environment and supporting operational excellence.
Why Work at Rittal:
- Compensation: $65,000 - $95,000
- Above-average benefits available on the 1st of the month after you start
- 401K Match
- Opportunities for training, development, and advancement
- Work for an industry-leading manufacturer with a strong commitment to safety and innovation
Production & Scheduling
- Supervise finite production schedules for the manufacture of industrial or commercial products
- Collaborate with production supervisors to review work progress and communicate changes in processes
- Establish a feedback loop with schedulers and production personnel to resolve schedule-related issues
- Use shop floor control staff to isolate problems and implement preventative systems
- Notify management of work progress, material availability, and potential production issues
- Support daily schedule communication to production departments
- Provide daily schedule performance reporting (Plan vs Output) for assembly and critical fabrication
- Review critical orders and manage escalations affecting the production plan
- Prepare and send the daily Paint Plan and monitor output
- Ensure alignment of raw material picking with established production schedules
- Monitor production progress and update MES (RLGL) with accurate order status
- Summarize daily production status and share updates through appropriate channels
- Support employee development and set clear expectations and goals
- Provide backup coverage for team members as needed
- Participate actively in continuous improvement projects
- Promote a positive, safe, and efficient work environment
- Ensure compliance with all Work Instructions, procedures, and safety policies
- Utilize SAP and related IT tools with proficiency
- Create and supervise finite production schedules and sequence plans
- Align schedules with customer orders and finished goods plans
- Ensure accurate material and resource allocation across production areas
- Support SAP documentation needs including scrap and reproduction
- Analyze production data to identify improvement opportunities
- Perform other related duties as needed
Education & Experience
- High school diploma or GED required
- Experience or education equivalent to 10 years in operations, specifically manufacturing and production control
- Minimum 5+ years of SAP experience
- Proficient in SAP ERP and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong understanding of production routings, capacity balancing, and planning processes
- Ability to interpret both verbal and written instructions
- Strong problem-solving and mathematical skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and shifting priorities
- Strong organizational and time management abilities
- Effective professional verbal and written communication
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating with stakeholders
- Ability to make logical decisions and contribute to problem-solving initiatives
- Adapts well to fast-paced environments and changing assignments
- Stand, walk, bend, twist, and reach frequently throughout the shift
- Occasionally lift up to 50 lbs to waist level
- Frequently lift 25–40 lbs to waist level and up to 25 lbs above shoulders
- Ability to multi-task and learn various build requirements
- Adaptability to changing assignments
- Effective communication with peers, supervisors, and managers
- Wear safety-toed footwear, safety glasses with side shields, hearing protection, and additional PPE as required
- Follow written and verbal directives
- Make and assist with logical decisions necessary for production continuity
- Direct Contacts: Production Control Manager, Assembly Manager, Team Supervisors, Team Members
- Indirect Contacts: Various departments throughout the Urbana plant
- Warehouse and manufacturing environment
- Exposure to hot and cold temperatures as well as dust
If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may contact the company’s Human Resources Department at (937) 399-0500.
This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability.
Rittal LLC and Eplan are proud to be an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. EEO, including Disability/Vets.