As the Production Supervisor, you will supervise all of the processes, procedures, outputs and deliverables for a group of departments and ensure the outputs and interactions of animation are aligned with production.

Responsibilities:

- Manage the Production Coordinators, Production Assistants and own crew.

- Collaborate with the Assoc. Production Manager and Production Manager in maintaining the master schedule for production.

- Partner with the supervisors in the set-up and running of the departments.

- Work with the CG Sup in order to coordinate the technical challenges involved with the deadlines of departments.

- With Production Management, meet overall production schedule and budget requirements and helps to ensure the budget and scheduling are updated as changes are made to the film’s production flow and/or staffing profile. 

- Understand how changes may affect the budget, scheduling and overtime & communicate the impact of changes to the Production Manager.

- Look ahead to ensure that weekly quotas, department milestones & inventory expectations are met. 

- Strategize with Department Head, production management and possibly other Production Supervisors to resolve any productivity and/or inventory issues.

- Create and maintain reports that clearly illustrate department and individual artist productivity.

- Collaborate with the Dept. Head to cast assignments and issue deadlines to artists.

- Perform walk-arounds to check in with the crew.

- Attend Director approvals and helps to drive these meetings.

- Check in with department head and production team on a regular basis to discuss challenges, acknowledge successes and discuss morale issues.

- Manage inventory flow in/out of departments.

- 6+ years of professional experience in VFX or animation industries.

- Requires experience in 3 or more feature production departments OR extensive experience on 2 shows.

- Experience working cross-site with remote crews on 2+ films is preferred.

- Software requirements: ShotGun, Microsoft Excel and Word, Outlook/Gmail and knowledge of production tracking databases.

- Excellent working knowledge of film production pipeline and methodologies.

- Proficient in English.