Production Supervisor

Description

The Production Supervisor is responsible for managing the day-to-day production within a specific department(s). In all duties below, the PS must work in collaboration with the department head. The success of their partnership will be a primary factor in the department’s success on the film.

In addition, the PS is a leadership role in the studio and as such must accept the responsibility of supporting and representing the directives of the studio and the production leadership.

• Work with PM and/or AP to meet overall production scheduling and manweek requirements; help ensure the manweeks and schedule are updated as changes are made to the film’s production flow and/or staffing plans.
• Understand how changes may affect the manweek, scheduling and overtime
• Look ahead to ensure that weekly quotas, department milestones and inventory expectations are met. Strategize with Department Head, film’s upper management and other PSs to resolve any productivity or inventory issues.
• Collaborates with Department Head to ensure complexity of work is consistent with department budget and schedule.
• Strategize with Department Head and film’s upper management on how to resolve any complexity overages
• Collaborate with Department Head to develop and manage department workflow process.
• Develop and manage internal department schedules and staffing requirements. Create a list of critical assumption and highlight any vulnerabilities
• Create and maintain reports that clearly illustrate department and individual artist productivity
• Collaborate with Department Head to cast assignments and issue deadlines to artists
• Performs walk arounds to check in with crew
• Drive dailies for the department and any other opportunities for director approval
• Be the primary production person within the department; supervise and mentor any Production Coordinators or Production Assistants in that department
• Manage, motivate and create an environment conducive to achieving quotas and artistic achievements
• Represent department in weekly production meetings. Report department progress and discuss solutions to any issues impeding the department
• Ensure that all the data of the production is tracked via the film’s production tracking database
• Trouble-shoot wherever necessary to ensure timely delivery of sequences; determine, with the AP and PM, when sequence-based schedules will be modified to meet efficiency or inventory demands
• Manage day-to-day department planning issues, such as overtime and vacation; review time cards of department crew

Basic Qualifications