
Production Supervisor - Transformers 1st Shift
Waukesha, WIJob$86–126K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Eaton is hiring a Production Supervisor for its Waukesha, Wisconsin facility. The supervisor directs departmental activities and cross-functional work to meet safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity, and continuous-improvement objectives. The role manages production priorities, staffing, performance coaching, equipment conditions, budgets, and employee records, while supporting onboarding and leading process-improvement teams. Candidates must live within 50 miles of Waukesha, except active-duty military service member candidates.
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Full job description
Eaton’s Power Systems Division is currently seeking a Production Supervisor - Transformers 1st Shift. This position is located at our Waukesha, WI (Badger Dr) location.
This role is located in Waukesha, WI facility. No relocation assistance will be provided.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
As a Production Supervisor, you will direct departmental activities and initiate/participate in cross-functional activities to accomplish the objectives of safety, quality, on-time delivery, inventory, productivity, and continuous improvement, which focuses on removing cost from the business as well as meeting departmental metrics, goals, and objectives.
In this role, you will:
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Drive Zero Incident Safety Culture
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Align Eaton Quality System priorities to department requirements
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Manage department operations and prioritize production requirements
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Initiate and coordinate assistance as required from support departments
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Create the basis for continuous improvement and employee empowerment by ensuring that standardize work processes are followed, countermeasures are implemented, and the area of responsibility is compliant with safety requirements.
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Review daily in-process inventory reports to determine and assign priorities
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Facilitate shift activity among other department supervisors. Assign daily work schedules for direct and indirect labor to meet business goals
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Monitor and provide coaching follow-up for performance regarding safety, quality, and productivity.
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Monitor equipment and facility conditions; create maintenance work orders to ensure safe, efficient operations.
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Maintain associate files, including attendance, OT equalization, vacation, training, and time-off requests.
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Manage and adhere to department expense budgets.Lead daily/weekly meetings to communicate updates, address concerns, and interpret policy.
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Provide training resources and support onboarding of new business partners.
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Coordinate job bidding processes and verify candidate eligibility.
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Lead cross-functional teams to improve processes and achieve plant goals.
Qualifications:
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
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High School Diploma or GED from an accredited institution
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Five (5) years of manufacturing experience
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One (1) year of supervisor or Team Lead Experience
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Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
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No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Waukesha, WI will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required
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Five (5) years of supervisory experience
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Lean/Six Sigma certifications
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Experience with SAP planning and ordering functions
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Proficiency in Word, Excel, and SAP
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with local laws. To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here (https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/careers/US%20Benefits%20updated%2010.24.22.pdf) for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,903 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$86–126K/yr
- Wisconsin median$72–86K/yr36 salary ranges
- US median$73–100K/yr754 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 33% above the Wisconsin median midpoint ($80K) — in the top quarter of Production Supervisor salary ranges in Wisconsin.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 146 open Production Supervisor jobs in Wisconsin and 1,903 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Wisconsin
- Nestle6 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Production Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,303 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 866 of the 1,903 open Production Supervisor jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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