Plant Supervisor (Dallas)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:   Safety, Health, Environment, and Compliance:  ·       Promote a safety-first culture and ensure all employees work in compliance with company safety policies and regulatory requirements. ·       Lead safety meetings, workplace inspections, hazard recognition activities, and corrective action initiatives. ·       Investigate incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions and implement preventive measures. ·       Ensure compliance with environmental permits, regulatory requirements, ISO standards, and company policies. ·       Support and promote all Quality, Safety, Health, Environmental, and Sustainability programs.   Production and Operations Leadership:  ·       Direct and coordinate daily plant operations to achieve production, quality, efficiency, and cost objectives. ·       Monitor and optimize furnace operations, expansion processes, packaging systems, and material handling equipment. ·       Establish daily production priorities and communicate expectations to operations personnel. ·       Monitor production rates, yields, downtime, quality performance, and operating costs. ·       Ensure customer orders are produced and shipped according to schedule. ·       Coordinate shift coverage, staffing plans, and operating schedules to support business needs. ·       Develop and implement operational improvements to increase efficiency and productivity.   Quality Management: ·       Ensure all products meet established quality specifications and customer requirements. ·       Monitor process controls, testing activities, and quality performance trends. ·       Support root cause investigations and corrective actions related to product quality issues. ·       Work closely with quality personnel to maintain compliance with internal and external quality standards.   Equipment Reliability and Maintenance Coordination:  ·       Partner with Maintenance to prioritize and coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance activities. ·       Monitor equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve reliability and uptime. ·       Participate in troubleshooting production and equipment issues. ·       Support capital projects, equipment modifications, and process improvement initiatives. ·       Ensure operational readiness of furnaces, packaging systems, screens, dust collection systems, compressors, conveyors, and material handling equipment.   Inventory and Material Management:  ·       Monitor raw material, packaging material, and finished goods inventories. ·       Ensure inventory accuracy through proper material tracking and reporting. ·       Coordinate raw material deliveries and finished product shipments. ·       Support warehouse and logistics activities to maintain customer service levels.   Leadership and Employee Development:  ·       Supervise, coach, train, and develop plant personnel. ·       Establish clear performance expectations and…