Manufacturing OPT Jobs in Florida
F-1 OPT manufacturing jobs in Florida span aerospace components, medical devices, food processing, and defense systems, with major employers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Danaher operating across Tampa, Orlando, and the Space Coast. Florida's manufacturing sector actively hires engineering, quality, and operations graduates, making it one of the stronger states for OPT sponsorship in production-focused roles.
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CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you ready to be part of a team that values safety, continuous improvement, quality, and employee well-being? CHEP is looking for a motivated Operations Supervisor on 1st shift to join our team in Jacksonville, FL!
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Provide hands-on leadership by mentoring, coaching, and guiding employees, addressing employee relations issues, and fostering a positive and productive work environment.
- Lead and enhance safety performance on shift, promoting a proactive safety culture through training, accident prevention, and rehabilitation programs, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
- Manage shift maintenance activities, resolving equipment breakdowns in coordination with the maintenance team to maintain uninterrupted plant operations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives on shift, implementing best practices to enhance efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness across end to end operations.
- Monitor and manage the plant's operational costs and yield, working closely with the Plant Manager to optimize performance and contribute to the overall plant objectives.
- Address performance and attendance matters in collaboration with HR, ensuring that all plant staff meet operational expectations.
- Ensure full compliance with CHEP procedures and work instructions, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and in line with company standards and operational goals.
As a Plant Operations Supervisor, you will be responsible for assisting the Plant Manager in managing total plant operations and delivering superior customer satisfaction by driving results and exceeding expectations in the key areas of safety, service, quality and cost.
What You Will Do
- Supervise the work of all production employees – oversees production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods.
- Provide hands-on leadership as a supervisor, responsible for mentoring and coaching all employees and working through employee relations issues.
- Support plant administration to ensure compliance to established policies.
- Responsible, in consultation with Plant Manager, for the cost and yield performance of the Plant in partnership with the overall P&L of the Plant.
- Support cost control initiatives and process control within the Plant.
- Review operations activities, including local transportation activities, to maintain compliance with all Federal, State and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD).
- Drive Safety improvements (Zero Harm) across the Plant.
- Ensure the consistent execution of all SOPs throughout the Plant in accordance with the PMS Commercial Organization, Global Supply Chain.
- Deliver best operational practices and cost efficiencies across the Plant while maintaining critical quality and raw material utilization standards that are necessary to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability.
- Ensure compliance through teamwork for all Standard Operating Procedures within the Plant.
- Identify Lean opportunities to effectively eliminate waste.
- In partnership with Plant Manager, provide leadership to Plant staff to effectively recruit, train, develop, evaluate, motivate, delegate and monitor their activities.
- Drive efficiencies in asset utilization through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, & driver management while meeting customer expectations.
What You Will Bring
Qualifications
- Bachelors in Operations/Supply Chain -or- relevant experience in a related field.
- Six Sigma/Lean certification desirable.
Experience:
- Prior experience in a plant supervisory role in an engineering or manufacturing environment.
- Familiarity with private fleet management/transportation is helpful.
- Strong customer focus orientation.
- Strong people management capability including non-exempt production workforce.
- Demonstrated success in delivering strong employee relations.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally.
- Experience managing safety performance and programs.
- Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics.
What To Expect
Additional Site Details:
- This is a 1st shift role Mon-Fri approximately 6am-3pm with flexibility to arrive earlier, stay later or occasional Saturdays based on production needs.
- 3-shift sort and repair operations of about 145+ employees total.
- Approximately 60-70 employees on shift.
- ~180k sq ft manufacturing/warehousing facility with 20+ dock doors.
- Semi-automated industrial equipment with some robotics.
- Approximately 80k+ pallet sorts and 45k pallet repairs per week.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive Pay w/ Shift Differential.
- Benefits Day 1!
- 401K w/ company match (up to 4%).
- FREE company-paid vision, short-term disability, and life insurance!
- FREE company-provided PPE and safety equipment.
- Tuition reimbursement, parental leave, childcare assistance, profit sharing, and MORE!
COMPENSATION STATEMENT:
The salary range for this position is $62,000 to $90,000 annually. Compensation ranges provided take into account a wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications, geographic differentials and other business and organizational needs. Therefore, actual amounts offered may be higher or lower than the range provided. If you have questions, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation may be part of a total offering beyond medical & retirement benefits and may include other monetary incentives or business benefits.
REMOTE TYPE
Not Remote
SKILLS TO SUCCEED IN THE ROLE
Adaptability, Adaptability, Change Management, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Cross-Functional Work, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Data Literacy, Delegation, Digital Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Inspiring Others, Learn From Mistakes, Mathematic Literacy, Mentoring, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Prioritization, Scheduling, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Thinking.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us at recruitment@brambles.com.
INTRODUCTION
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you ready to be part of a team that values safety, continuous improvement, quality, and employee well-being? CHEP is looking for a motivated Operations Supervisor on 1st shift to join our team in Jacksonville, FL!
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Provide hands-on leadership by mentoring, coaching, and guiding employees, addressing employee relations issues, and fostering a positive and productive work environment.
- Lead and enhance safety performance on shift, promoting a proactive safety culture through training, accident prevention, and rehabilitation programs, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
- Manage shift maintenance activities, resolving equipment breakdowns in coordination with the maintenance team to maintain uninterrupted plant operations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives on shift, implementing best practices to enhance efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness across end to end operations.
- Monitor and manage the plant's operational costs and yield, working closely with the Plant Manager to optimize performance and contribute to the overall plant objectives.
- Address performance and attendance matters in collaboration with HR, ensuring that all plant staff meet operational expectations.
- Ensure full compliance with CHEP procedures and work instructions, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and in line with company standards and operational goals.
As a Plant Operations Supervisor, you will be responsible for assisting the Plant Manager in managing total plant operations and delivering superior customer satisfaction by driving results and exceeding expectations in the key areas of safety, service, quality and cost.
What You Will Do
- Supervise the work of all production employees – oversees production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods.
- Provide hands-on leadership as a supervisor, responsible for mentoring and coaching all employees and working through employee relations issues.
- Support plant administration to ensure compliance to established policies.
- Responsible, in consultation with Plant Manager, for the cost and yield performance of the Plant in partnership with the overall P&L of the Plant.
- Support cost control initiatives and process control within the Plant.
- Review operations activities, including local transportation activities, to maintain compliance with all Federal, State and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD).
- Drive Safety improvements (Zero Harm) across the Plant.
- Ensure the consistent execution of all SOPs throughout the Plant in accordance with the PMS Commercial Organization, Global Supply Chain.
- Deliver best operational practices and cost efficiencies across the Plant while maintaining critical quality and raw material utilization standards that are necessary to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability.
- Ensure compliance through teamwork for all Standard Operating Procedures within the Plant.
- Identify Lean opportunities to effectively eliminate waste.
- In partnership with Plant Manager, provide leadership to Plant staff to effectively recruit, train, develop, evaluate, motivate, delegate and monitor their activities.
- Drive efficiencies in asset utilization through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, & driver management while meeting customer expectations.
What You Will Bring
Qualifications
- Bachelors in Operations/Supply Chain -or- relevant experience in a related field.
- Six Sigma/Lean certification desirable.
Experience:
- Prior experience in a plant supervisory role in an engineering or manufacturing environment.
- Familiarity with private fleet management/transportation is helpful.
- Strong customer focus orientation.
- Strong people management capability including non-exempt production workforce.
- Demonstrated success in delivering strong employee relations.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally.
- Experience managing safety performance and programs.
- Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics.
What To Expect
Additional Site Details:
- This is a 1st shift role Mon-Fri approximately 6am-3pm with flexibility to arrive earlier, stay later or occasional Saturdays based on production needs.
- 3-shift sort and repair operations of about 145+ employees total.
- Approximately 60-70 employees on shift.
- ~180k sq ft manufacturing/warehousing facility with 20+ dock doors.
- Semi-automated industrial equipment with some robotics.
- Approximately 80k+ pallet sorts and 45k pallet repairs per week.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive Pay w/ Shift Differential.
- Benefits Day 1!
- 401K w/ company match (up to 4%).
- FREE company-paid vision, short-term disability, and life insurance!
- FREE company-provided PPE and safety equipment.
- Tuition reimbursement, parental leave, childcare assistance, profit sharing, and MORE!
COMPENSATION STATEMENT:
The salary range for this position is $62,000 to $90,000 annually. Compensation ranges provided take into account a wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications, geographic differentials and other business and organizational needs. Therefore, actual amounts offered may be higher or lower than the range provided. If you have questions, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation may be part of a total offering beyond medical & retirement benefits and may include other monetary incentives or business benefits.
REMOTE TYPE
Not Remote
SKILLS TO SUCCEED IN THE ROLE
Adaptability, Adaptability, Change Management, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Cross-Functional Work, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision Making, Data Literacy, Delegation, Digital Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Inspiring Others, Learn From Mistakes, Mathematic Literacy, Mentoring, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Prioritization, Scheduling, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Thinking.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us at recruitment@brambles.com.
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Search Manufacturing Jobs in FloridaManufacturing OPT Sponsorship Jobs in Florida: Frequently Asked Questions
Which manufacturing companies sponsor F-1 OPT visas in Florida?
Florida manufacturers that have historically sponsored OPT and H-1B visa workers include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Danaher, Jabil, and L3Harris Technologies. Medical device manufacturers like Stryker and Zimmer Biomet also operate Florida facilities with engineering hiring needs. Sponsorship patterns vary by facility and role, so confirming current practice directly with the employer's HR team is always necessary before applying.
Which cities in Florida have the most manufacturing F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs?
Orlando and the surrounding Space Coast corridor, including Melbourne and Titusville, concentrate the highest density of aerospace and defense manufacturing jobs in Florida. Tampa and St. Petersburg host significant electronics and medical device manufacturing activity. Jacksonville has a growing industrial base with logistics and automotive-adjacent production. Miami and Fort Lauderdale add pharmaceutical and consumer goods manufacturing to the mix.
What types of manufacturing roles typically qualify for F-1 OPT sponsorship?
Roles that commonly align with OPT eligibility include industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality assurance, process engineering, supply chain operations, and CNC programming. These positions typically require a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, materials science, or a related field. Roles in production line supervision or skilled trades generally do not meet the specialty occupation threshold needed for subsequent H-1B sponsorship.
How do I find manufacturing F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs in Florida?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international students and filters jobs by visa type, including F-1 OPT, and by industry and state. Searching for manufacturing roles in Florida on Migrate Mate surfaces employers with a documented history of OPT and H-1B sponsorship, saving significant time compared to manually screening general job postings. Filtering by Florida and the manufacturing category gives you the most targeted results.
Are there any Florida-specific considerations for F-1 OPT sponsorship in manufacturing?
Florida's heavy concentration of defense and aerospace contractors means many manufacturing roles require security clearances or work exclusively on ITAR-controlled programs, which can restrict eligibility for non-U.S. persons including OPT holders. Confirming clearance requirements before applying is important. Outside defense, Florida's medical device and food processing sectors have fewer such restrictions and tend to be more accessible to international graduates on OPT.