About this role
IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.
We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Production Supervisor. This role is based in our Pineville plant, and reports to the Production Manager.
Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!
🧠About the Role
The Production Supervisor is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the production process during an assigned shift to ensure high‑quality output, operational efficiency, and adherence to health, safety, and environmental standards. This role supports and develops a diverse team of production employees and works collaboratively with cross‑functional partners to meet production goals. The Production Supervisor also contributes to workforce development, employee engagement, and continuous improvement within the Production Department.
🔧 What You’ll Do
• Oversee daily production operations for the assigned shift, ensuring safety, quality, productivity, and schedule adherence are consistently achieved.
• Lead shift handovers and daily start‑up meetings, clearly communicating priorities, performance insights, and operational risks.
• Optimize labor, workflow, materials, and equipment utilization while coordinating with maintenance, process, and technical teams to resolve production issues.
• Monitor and analyze production, cost, and performance data (e.g., MES, shift reports) to identify trends, remove barriers, and drive informed decision‑making.
• Support, coach, and develop production team members through clear expectations, ongoing feedback, performance discussions, and targeted training initiatives.
• Champion a proactive health, safety, and environmental culture by ensuring compliance with corporate policies, ISO standards, incident reporting, and 5S practices.
• Partner with Human Resources to support inclusive recruitment, onboarding, certification, and succession planning to build a skilled and engaged workforce.
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement initiatives, audits, and standardized work development to enhance safety, consistency, quality, and operational excellence.
🧩 What You Bring
Education & Certifications
• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Previous supervisory or leadership experience is considered an asset.
Technical Skills & Experience
• Approximately five (5) years of experience in a manufacturing environment, with exposure to safety, continuous improvement, and people leadership preferred.
• Working knowledge of health, safety, and environmental practices in a production setting.
• Experience with plastics blending and/or processing (e.g., extrusion, molding) is an asset but not required.
IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at [email protected]
Other facts
About Aliaxis
Honesty, fairness, integrity, the golden rule: a customer-first culture. Customers want it- even demand it. And it’s so easy to promise.
This is ‘distance race’ thinking, and building a business on it is harder than you might think. It requires you to sacrifice many short-term opportunities for gain. It means spending whatever time it takes to help a client solve a problem on deadline. It means resisting the urge to cut corners on materials that, once in place, no one will ever see.
It means innovation: going beyond what your customers want or expect, and working restlessly to create new products and ideas to fill unmet needs. It means keeping your word, even when it’s inconvenient, and honouring relationships over transactions, even when it costs. And it means building a team with people who believe it, live it, and stand by it.
At IPEX we’ve long-since made a decision to embrace this long-term thinking, not just when it’s easy, but every day, in everything we do, for every customer and every employee. We don’t do it because we’re nice people, though we like to think we are. We do it because it’s good business, and that the reputation we’ve built over time, job by job, one customer at a time, pays the best dividends.
Alex Mestres
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
What you'll do
- The Production Supervisor oversees all aspects of the production process during an assigned shift, ensuring high-quality output and operational efficiency. This role also involves supporting and developing a diverse team of production employees and collaborating with cross-functional partners to meet production goals.
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