Supervisor, Wood Shop

Pivotal Health Solutions is seeking a Wood Shop Supervisor to join our team in Watertown, SD. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations within the wood fabrication area. This role provides direct supervision, training, workflow coordination, and performance support for the woodshop team while ensuring the safe, efficient, and high quality production of wood based products. The supervisor actively participates in production work as needed and ensures schedules, quality standards, and safety requirements are consistently met.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

Leadership & Supervision

• Supervise, train, coach, and develop woodshop team members
• Assign daily work, monitor productivity, and adjust staffing or workflow as needed
• Provide ongoing feedback, support performance expectations, and escalate issues when appropriate
• Promote a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement

Production Operations

• Oversee the production of wood lockers, athletic training equipment, and other wood based products
• Operate hand tools, power tools, and CNC equipment as needed to support production flow
• Ensure team members follow established work instructions and assembly procedures
• Monitor work to ensure products meet quality and time standards

Quality & Documentation

• Ensure products are built defect free and meet all company quality standards
• Review and ensure completion of production and quality documentation
• Identify production issues and collaborate with leadership to implement corrective actions

Safety & Work Environment

• Enforce safety policies and ensure employees follow required safety procedures
• Maintain a clean, organized, and efficient work area
• Conduct safety checks and report hazards or equipment concerns

Materials & Workflow

• Oversee inventory replenishment through the Kanban system
• Coordinate materials, supplies, and equipment availability to minimize downtime
• Communicate production issues or delays to the appropriate partners

Other Duties

• Support continuous improvement initiatives
• Perform production tasks as needed to meet deadlines
• Complete other duties as assigned

Job Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 5+ years of previous woodshop/wood fabrication experience
• Blueprint/drawing interpretation experience
• Experience operating CNC machinery
• High level of mechanical aptitude and experience operating power tools
• Basic computer knowledge
• Must be a strong communicator, detail oriented, dependable, and work well in a team environment
• Must be able to bend, stoop, reach high and low, work at a constant pace, and lift and carry up to 75 pounds
• Valid Driver's License
• Build defect-free products that meet Quality Standards
• Build products within time standards

Benefits

• Pivotal Health Solutions offers a complete benefits package including 401K, paid time off, paid holidays and healthcare benefits.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.