The Kitting Supervisor is responsible for leading the day-to-day operation of the kitting department. This role ensures kits are assembled safely, accurately, efficiently, and on time, and to customer and company quality standards. The supervisor directs people, schedules, materials, and workflow across the department, develops a cross-trained team that expands the department’s capabilities, and holds the department accountable for executing to due dates at a high level.
Leadership & Team Support Responsibilities
- Provides clear daily direction to leads and kitting associates; establishes accountability and maintains open communication throughout the department.
- Participates in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, coaching, and developing department employees in partnership with HR and plant leadership.
- Plans staffing, shift coverage, and overtime based on production requirements and approved labor plans.
- Builds and executes a cross-training plan so associates are qualified across multiple kit types, workstations, and processes; supports succession planning to strengthen department flexibility.
- Provides timely feedback, recognizes strong performance, addresses attendance or performance concerns, conducts evaluations, and administers corrective action consistently with company policy.
- Ensures associates are trained and qualified on job procedures, quality expectations, equipment, machine guarding, and safe material handling
The Kitting Supervisor is responsible for leading the day-to-day operation of the kitting department. This role ensures kits are assembled safely, accurately, efficiently, and on time, and to customer and company quality standards. The supervisor directs people, schedules, materials, and workflow across the department, develops a cross-trained team that expands the department’s capabilities, and holds the department accountable for executing to due dates at a high level.
Leadership & Team Support Responsibilities
- Provides clear daily direction to leads and kitting associates; establishes accountability and maintains open communication throughout the department.
- Participates in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, coaching, and developing department employees in partnership with HR and plant leadership.
- Plans staffing, shift coverage, and overtime based on production requirements and approved labor plans.
- Builds and executes a cross-training plan so associates are qualified across multiple kit types, workstations, and processes; supports succession planning to strengthen department flexibility.
- Provides timely feedback, recognizes strong performance, addresses attendance or performance concerns, conducts evaluations, and administers corrective action consistently with company policy.
- Ensures associates are trained and qualified on job procedures, quality expectations, equipment, machine guarding, and safe material handling.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day kitting operations across scheduled shifts, including kit assembly, component staging, hand assembly, inserting, packaging, labeling, and related activities.
- Prioritize, schedule, and assign work to meet customer specifications, production schedules, quality requirements, and due dates; monitor job progress throughout the shift and act early on jobs at risk of missing their commitments.
- Review job tickets, kit specifications, bills of materials, samples, packaging instructions, and special instructions before production begins, confirm components are on hand, and ensure expectations are clearly communicated.
- Maximize labor and floor space utilization by balancing workloads, sequencing jobs effectively, and matching assignments to employee skills.
- Expand department capabilities by identifying new kit types, processes, equipment, and workflow opportunities, and by working with Operations leadership to evaluate and implement them.
- Monitor on-time delivery, productivity, labor, accuracy, rework, non-chargeable time, materials, and supplies; identify root causes and implement corrective action.
- Ensure kit contents, counts, labeling, and packaging are accurate and meet customer specifications before work moves to shipping; maintain checks and procedures that prevent errors.
- Coordinate with Scheduling, Prepress, Press, Bindery and Finishing, Customer Service, Quality, Receiving, Shipping, and other production teams to maintain workflow and resolve constraints.
- Maintain a safe, clean, and organized department; enforce safety rules, required personal protective equipment, and housekeeping standards.
- Drive continuous improvement in safety, throughput, accuracy, waste reduction, standard work, workplace organization, and cost performance.
- Other duties as assigned.
