Production Supervisor

Dawn Staffing Solutions Inc

📍Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Posted May 21, 2026
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Job Overview

Position

Production Supervisor

Company

Dawn Staffing Solutions Inc

Location

Chatham, Ontario, Canada

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4414245736

Job Description

One of our manufacturing clients in
Chatham-Kent area
is looking for
Production Supervisor
for their plant

Shift
- Day and Afternoon rotation

Pay Range
- $70K-$80K

  • Supervise daily stamping and press operations to ensure production targets, quality standards, and safety requirements are achieved.

  • Coordinate manpower, machine utilization, and production schedules to maximize efficiency and minimize downtime.

  • Monitor press operations, tooling performance, and material flow to ensure smooth production processes.

  • Troubleshoot production and equipment issues while working closely with maintenance and tool & die teams.

  • Ensure compliance with workplace safety regulations, lockout/tagout procedures, and company policies.

  • Train, mentor, and support production employees to improve performance, productivity, and teamwork.

  • Conduct quality inspections and ensure products meet customer specifications and manufacturing standards.

  • Maintain production reports, downtime records, and shift documentation.

  • Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, waste reduction, and process optimization.
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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you approach monitoring press operations and tooling performance to ensure material flow remains smooth and production targets are met?
  • 2.Can you explain your experience with lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures and how you ensure compliance among your team on a busy manufacturing floor?
  • 3.What key metrics and details do you prioritize when maintaining production reports and downtime records, and why?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to troubleshoot a significant equipment issue on the stamping floor that was causing excessive downtime.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to train or mentor an underperforming production employee to improve their productivity and teamwork.
  • 3.Give me an example of a continuous improvement initiative you led or supported that focused on waste reduction or process optimization in a manufacturing environment.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are supervising the afternoon shift and a critical stamping press suddenly breaks down, threatening to derail the production schedule. How do you handle this?
  • 2.During a routine quality inspection, you discover that a batch of stamped parts does not meet customer specifications, but hitting the production target is heavily dependent on this run. What do you do?

Resume Keywords

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Production SupervisorStamping and Press OperationsLockout/Tagout (LOTO)Continuous ImprovementTool and DieProduction SchedulingQuality InspectionsTroubleshootingWaste ReductionDowntime Tracking

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