Production Supervisor at Kinetic Custom Trailers in Penticton, Canada

About Kinetic Custom Trailers

Join a team where innovation meets craftsmanship — Welcome to Kinetic Custom Trailers.

At KINETIC, we don’t just build trailers, we engineer custom solutions that push the boundaries of design, functionality, and quality. As a leader in the custom trailer manufacturing industry, we take pride in creating smart, efficient designs that meet the unique needs of every client, no matter how complex or specialized.

Help Power the Production Floor and Keep Materials Moving

At Kinetic Custom Trailers, innovation meets craftsmanship.

We engineer and manufacture custom Class 8 trailer solutions built for complex, demanding applications. Every build requires strong coordination between skilled trades, Production, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Warehouse, and our business systems.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a Production Supervisor who can provide active, visible leadership on the manufacturing floor and keep people, priorities, materials, and schedules aligned.

Who You Are

You are a hands-on manufacturing leader who is comfortable being accountable for what happens on the floor.

You provide clear direction, follow through on commitments, and address problems while there is still time to solve them. You understand that good production leadership requires more than reacting to today's issues — it requires making sure tomorrow's work is ready before the shift begins.

You are comfortable balancing people, schedule, labour hours, materials, quality, and safety without losing sight of the customer commitment.

Key Responsibilities

Daily Production Planning & Execution

• Lead the daily production standup and establish clear priorities for each Team Lead.
• Confirm labour, parts, drawings, tools, fixtures, equipment, and work areas are ready before work is scheduled to begin.
• Maintain visibility to constraints that could affect production.
• When constraints arise, develop alternate sequencing or work plans that minimize schedule impact.
• Coordinate across Production, Engineering, Quality, Warehouse, and Purchasing to keep work moving.

Schedule & Labour Hour Control

• Maintain clear build start and finish commitments.
• Monitor actual labour hours against planned hours and identify deviations early.
• Hold Team Leads accountable for progress against agreed priorities and target dates.
• Escalate schedule risks promptly with the cause, expected impact, recovery options, and support required.
• Follow recovery actions through to completion.

Floor Leadership & Accountability

• Maintain an active and consistent presence on the production floor.
• Verify employees are working on the correct priorities using approved methods, drawings, tools, fixtures, and work areas.
• Provide timely direction, coaching, and correction when expectations are not being met.
• Develop Team Leads by reinforcing clear ownership, planning, communication, and follow-through.

Workplace Planning & Onboarding

• Review scheduled work and identify capacity, staffing, or qualification gaps and present to the Production Manager with the required quantity, skills, timing, and expected production impact.
• Support the effective onboarding of new production employees.
• Assign new employees to appropriate stations based on production requirements and capability.
• Establish training priorities and monitor progress against expectations.
• Communicate placement, qualification, attendance, or performance concerns promptly.

Safety Leadership

• Reinforce a workplace where safe work is an operating requirement, not an afterthought.
• Ensure compliance with applicable occupational health and safety requirements, Kinetic policies, PPE requirements, and approved safe work practices.
• Conduct regular floor observations.
• Correct unsafe behaviour or hazards immediately and initiate required documentation or escalation.

Quality, Procedure & System Compliance

• Enforce approved build procedures, workflows, inspection points, and quality requirements.
• Ensure work is completed to current drawings, specifications, and approved manufacturing methods.
• Reinforce accurate Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Production Order/RPR transactions and material movement tracking.
• Work directly with Quality Control and Engineering to resolve manufacturing issues.
• Support corrective actions, engineering changes, and implementation of updated production requirements.

Operational Readiness & Continuous Improvement

• Keep tools, machinery, fixtures, and work areas safe, organized, available, and operational.
• Maintain strong housekeeping and production-floor organization standards.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve safety, flow, quality, labour efficiency, or production reliability.
• Support implementation of agreed improvements and verify they are sustained.
• Provide the Production Manager with clear updates on production status, resource requirements, open risks, and improvement opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, fabrication, heavy equipment, trailer manufacturing, or a comparable production environment.
• Previous experience supervising production employees, skilled trades, Team Leads, or manufacturing work groups.
• Demonstrated ability to manage daily production priorities and schedules.
• Experience monitoring labour hours, productivity, throughput, or similar manufacturing performance measures.
• Strong working knowledge of occupational health and safety requirements and shop-floor safe work practices.
• Experience enforcing production procedures, drawings, quality standards, and documented workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills in an active manufacturing environment.
• Ability to coach employees, provide corrective direction, and hold others accountable.
• Comfortable working with ERP or manufacturing information systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Preferred

• Experience working with Production Orders, routings, labour tracking, material transactions, or similar ERP manufacturing functions.
• Trade certification, technical diploma, manufacturing leadership training, or equivalent practical experience.

What We Offer

Competitive Pay: $85,000-$95,000 annually based on experience

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package, paid holidays and paid time off

Growth Opportunities: Advancement into broader operations leadership roles

Team Environment: Collaborate with skilled production, trades and engineering teams

Stability: Full-time role with consistent hours and meaningful impact

Schedule & Work Details

Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday, 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Location: Penticton, BC

Environment: Industrial warehouse/shop floor

Help Power the Production Floor—Join Kinetic Today

Submit your resume and cover letter directly to our posting on our career's website. We thank all applicants—only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.