Description:
Job Title: Supervisor UV Department
Department: UV, PUR (NCQ), and Annealing Lines
Location: CFL USA LLC – Calhoun, Georgia
Reports To: UV Department Manager
Employment Type: Full-Time
Overview:
The UV Supervisor oversees daily operations across three critical production areas: the UV Coating Lines, the PUR (NCQ) Padding Line, and the Annealing Line. This leadership role ensures safe, efficient, and high-quality production while coordinating people, processes, and equipment across the department.
Requirements:
Core Responsibilities:
1. Safety Leadership
• Enforce all PPE policies and safety procedures, including UV lamp safety, chemical handling, and hot-melt operations.
• Ensure operators follow lockout/tagout (LOTO), hazard reporting, and safe startup/shutdown procedures.
• Conduct routine safety walks, correct unsafe behaviors, and escalate hazards as needed.
2. Production Oversight
• Oversee daily production on all UV lines, PUR line, and the Annealing line.
• Ensure each line meets production targets, changeover efficiency, and waste reduction goals.
• Coordinate labor assignments across three areas to maintain balanced workflow.
• Verify correct material flow from extrusion staging to UV, PUR, and Annealing processes.
3. Quality Control
• Ensure products meet gloss, adhesion, uniformity, scratch resistance, and overall visual quality standards.
• Perform or verify visual inspections at the defined 60cm and 1.5m criteria.
• React quickly to coating defects (glitter, dry shine, pressure marks, streaks, waves).
• Review dyne test results and PUR adhesion checks and adjust processes accordingly.
4. Equipment Operation & Maintenance
• Support troubleshooting of UV applicators, mercury/gallium lamps, doctor systems, roller nips, PUR melters, glue rollers, and annealing ovens.
• Ensure operators complete daily PM tasks, including cleaning lamps, greasing bearings, and inspecting rollers.
• Ensure completion of breakdown maintenance task as needed; changing rollers, changing, belts, changing bearings, or any other task needed to get any production line into production. Supervisor must be hands at every event possible.
• Coordinate maintenance support for major repairs and downtime events.
5. Team Leadership & Training
• Lead UV, PUR, and Annealing operators during all shifts.
• Train employees on SOPs, process controls, defect identification, and equipment care.
• Help in the development of new processes and procedures along with communicating any new process and procedure to all team members.
• Hold employees accountable for safety, quality, cost, performance, attendance, staging accuracy, and housekeeping.
• Support cross-training to improve flexibility across the department.
6. Reporting & Administration
• Review and sign daily production sheets, material usage logs, downtime records, and quality reports.
• Audit in-process staging areas daily for accuracy, organization, and process standards,.
• Maintain inventory of coatings, PUR glue, rollers, and any other consumable for the department.
• Communicate daily production status to the Department Manager.
• Participate in improvement meetings and support continuous improvement projects.
• Hold shift team alignment meetings at minimum monthly.
7. Continuous Improvement
• Identify trends in defects, downtime, roller wear, adhesive failures, or gloss variation.
• Recommend improvements concerning Safety, Quality, Production, Cost, or Processes.
• Support development of new SOPs and refinement of existing ones for UV, PUR, and Annealing.
Qualifications:
• 1+ years experience in UV coating a major plus. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to troubleshoot basic issues with the UV Coating process.
• PUR (NCQ) or Padding production line experience a plus.
• Bilingual a plus.
• Lift truck experience a plus. Must be willing to be trained to drive powered equipment.
• Strong mechanical skills. Must be hands on.
• Ability to lead teams, maintain discipline, and train operators effectively.
• Ability to work in a fast paced adapting manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work flexible hours as needed to support departmental operations.
• Strong communication skills both verbally and through technology.
• Basic understanding of office software such as MS Word and Excel.