Redwood Materials
Production Supervisor
Ridgeville, South Carolina, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America - recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house.
- Production Supervisor In this leadership role, the Production Supervisor will guide a team of chemical operators in the continuous effort to produce in-spec products, safely and efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Build effective relationships with employees that will improve the likeliness to be successful; accomplished through strong manufacturing floor presence and ongoing engagement with front line supervisors and coordinators
- In conjunction with site leadership, develops the department manufacturing strategy and supports its execution, including operations shift planning and delegation
- Lead a diverse team to develop an inclusive work environment that delivers safe, reliable, cost optimized production
- Identify potential risks to performance. Lead your team in resolving those issues where possible. Escalate to the relevant stakeholders to minimize impact when necessary.
- Communicate and drive complex improvement ideas and information effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Able to prioritize and assign responsibility across team to efficiently manage an ever-changing environment
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent from an accredited institution required
- 5+ years in a chemical / mining / refinery facility
- Possess an interest in people development
Nice to have
- AAS Degree or higher preferred
- Previous experience in a training or leadership role highly preferred
Skills
- Facilitate the implementation of the training program to ensure compliance is achieved for all training policies and requirements.
- Development of individualized training plans to address deficiencies, resourcing, and optimization of overall staffing levels
- Set expectations, provide feedback, and hold people accountable for their actions and responsibilities in meeting those expectations
- Work with all key stakeholders to ensure you and your team are prepared for start-up, shut down, and continual operation of the plant
- Monitor production KPIs, making production changes where necessary to meet these KPIs
- Listen to team member's feedback and resolve any issues or conflict
Compensation
- $20k-$50k
Benefits
- Provide training and mentoring to new hires in safety, company policy, procedures, work instructions, along with manufacturing topics through hands-on and classroom-based learning
Company info
- About Redwood Materials Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist.
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