Production Supervisor; night shift

Position: Production Supervisor (night shift)
The IRCA Group is an International Leader in high quality finished and semi-finished ingredients for the bakery, pastry, and ice cream markets. With a solid history of over 100 years in the industry, the Group has its headquarters in Italy (Gallarate) and a strong global footprint with 23 production sites and over 2,000 employees in Europe, the United States, and Vietnam.

Our core product categories include chocolate, compounds, chocolate decorations, sprinkles, creams, pastry mixes, gelato ingredients, nuts, and candied fruit. The most recent acquisition of Kerry Sweet complements our existing categories with the addition of sweet particulates, chocolate confections, inclusions, variegates, and frozen fruit purees.

Through its 8 key brands (IRCA, Dobla®, in2food, Via Degli Orsini, Joy Gelato, Ravi Fruit, Cesarin, and Anastasi®), the IRCA Group offers an unparalleled "one-stop shop" approach for delivering quality solutions to all ingredients needs, through a broad range of innovative products. We offer everyday & seasonal solutions to 3 macro channels:
Gourmet, Food Manufacturing, and Consumer Product (Retail). "Extraordinary made simple."

We are currently seeking a Night Shift Production Supervisor responsible for overseeing nightly manufacturing operations while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, food safety, and operational standards. This role provides frontline leadership to production teams during the night shift, ensuring efficient production flow, staffing coordination, and timely resolution of operational issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
The ideal candidate has a strong manufacturing and technical background, hands-on problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead teams effectively during off-shift operations. This position works closely with Production, Maintenance, Quality, and Engineering teams to maximize efficiency, reduce downtime, maintain product quality, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

SAFETY:

• Ensure consistent enforcement of Safety policies including PPE use
• Communicate safety awareness as primary to all employees; maintain safe working conditions; propose ideas to improve the safety within the plant
• Responsible for appropriate safety trainings and safety communications to employees
• Ensure timely (24hrs) incident reports are filled out with details of incidents to aid in quicker resolution of the issues
• Involvement in Safety walk-through audits to ensure appropriate operator participation and ensure appropriate follow-up is taken on findings
• Actively supports their employees participation in safety programs and teams and makes all necessary resources available to support those efforts on a routine basis

QUALITY:

• Ensure the close adherence to the production schedule in compliance with our quality standards
• Ensure consistent communication and enforcement of company Quality policies, GMP compliance, and all Food Safety regulatory standards
• Ensure timely communications with QC in order to have timely support to help address and problems or changes that could require a control or validation (i.e. Swabbing, checking product vs. standards, etc.)
• Maintain a high level of sanitation and housekeeping at all times
• Ensure that all processing equipment is properly sanitized and CIP'D before manufacturing starts
• Product protection/food safety - always be alert to any potential sources of product contamination.
• Ensure appropriate follow-up, review and development of corrective actions following any Quality Hold & Foreign Material reports
• Participation & involvement in monthly self audits & implementation of assigned corrective Actions arising from internal and external audits

PROCESS MANAGEMENT:

• Ensure close adherence to the daily schedule through close management; monitoring the on-line percentage, pounds per on-line hour, and using adequate/budgeted staffing/headcount, to ensure a high plant service level
• Ensure shop floor presence at all times possible to ensure issues that arise with the lines are addressed in a timely manner
• Ensure the organization, housekeeping, zoning, and GMP's of the mixing/batching/packaging lines are maintained at all times
• Apply technical understanding of the packaging lines and their operation, in order to aid maintenance and operators identify root causes and quicker troubleshooting of the issues as they arise
• Ability to time manage all daily activities to ensure adequate shop floor presence is balanced with administrative duties and any meeting requirements
• Daily awareness of any products on HOLD and the coordination of the rework process to ensure timely disposition of products on HOLD
• Understand the technical aspect of CIP (Clean in Place) systems, to be able to be the "go to" person for operators when they have issues with CIP performance
• Develop a good understanding of the entire process from raw materials reception to finished goods for an excellent decision making process regarding scheduling. Specific attention needs to be paid in…