Shift Supervisor; Tube Draw Plant

NIPRO PHARMAPACKAGING AMERICAS CORP, 1633 WHEATON AVE, MILLVILLE, New Jersey, United States of America

Posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM

We believe our current and future responsibility to society is to develop innovative, value-added products and technologies that improve patient outcomes and healthcare worldwide.

SHIFT SUPERVISOR

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB:

The Shift Supervisor is responsible for leading a unionized workforce during an assigned rotating shift at a 24/7 pharmaceutical glass tubing manufacturing facility. This role ensures that all safety, quality, and productivity objectives are met by effectively coordinating personnel, addressing production challenges, and maintaining open communication with both incoming and outgoing shifts. The Supervisor plays a key role in workforce management: including scheduling, payroll processing, and performance reviews.

REPORTS TO: Production Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Directs and coordinates the daily activities of the production workforce to meet established safety, quality, and productivity targets.
• Promotes a workplace culture based on teamwork, communication, and accountability.
• Communicates with supervisors across all shifts to ensure seamless hand-offs and operational continuity.
• Collaborates with Production and Quality teams to prioritize production goals, resolve quality concerns, and manage machine or process issues.
• Acts as the first line of response for addressing safety incidents, equipment breakdowns, and workforce challenges.
• Coordinates daily and long-term scheduling to maintain coverage and adjust for absences or workload changes.
• Maintains accurate payroll records and manages time and attendance using internal HRIS system.
• Conducts employee performance evaluations, supports skill development, and ensures adequate cross-training within the team.
• Handles employee relations issues coaching, counseling, and conflict resolution.
• Monitors shift performance metrics as well as production schedule to ensure efficient production and timely and efficient job changes.
• Conducts or assists in workplace investigations to address and resolve workplace issues, ensuring adherence to company policies, the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and legal requirements.
• Supports root-cause analysis and corrective actions for quality or safety incidents.
• Enforces compliance and exemplifies the behavior with all safety, health, environmental, company rules, and quality regulations (ISO and internal standards).
• Maintains proper inventory and usage of materials to minimize waste and optimize throughput.
• Follows the 4 C's outlined in the company policy - communication, commitment, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction.
• Commits to the execution and evolution of continuous improvement and operational excellence objectives through process design, problem solving, knowledge sharing, and teaching others
• Leader of teams, coach, teacher, trainer, and consultant to their assigned employee team(s.)
• Facilitates improvement implementation through deployment of the Nipro OPEX model and works to involve everyone in the pursuit of sustained beneficial change
• Sustain implementation through learn-by-doing methods, and provides leadership, coaching and training in OPEX processes to team members.
• Focuses site teams on continuous improvement, by involving people in meeting productivity and site objectives
PEX coordinators continuous improvement interventions and employee teams.
• Ensures predicted improvements are made, measured, completed, and linked to operating results.
• Participates in Best Practice sharing, assures Kaizen Team Events are recorded.
• Identifies opportunities to implement common processes and best practices.
• Verifies all team members follow standard work consistently to ensure efficiency and quality in the process.

REQUIRE>

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED required;
  Associate degree or some college coursework preferred.

Experience:

• 2–4 years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably with union workforce management.
• Experience in glass manufacturing or similar industrial setting is strongly preferred.

Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and…