Production Supervisor

Job Details

Job Location:

151 Foods LLC
- Bellmawr, NJ 08031

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: High School Salary Range: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 Salary/year

The role of the Production Supervisor is to provide manufacturing front-line leadership to one or more production lines from mixing to baking. The Supervisor is responsible for leading, motivating and developing front-line employees within their area of responsibility to achieve outstanding manufacturing results. This is done through enhancing teamwork, effective communications, actively listening to employees, and driving change. Additionally, the Production Supervisor must focus on safety, quality assurance, process efficiency and continuous improvement, and meeting customer expectations.

• Support without hesitation General Plant Safety, Food Safety, Food Defense Initiatives and Good Manufacturing Practices with an understanding that these are absolutes and are Priority #1.
• Responsible for the safety of every employee making sure that all safety procedures are being followed and non-compliance is addressed appropriately.
• Responsible to ensure that all Food Safety policies and procedures are being followed and non-compliance is addressed appropriately.
• Understands the HACCP Plan and ensures compliance and education of team with requirements
• Complete a Safety Incident Report and/or Food Safety Incident Report if an incident is to occur and ensure that the report is completed and submitted before the end of the shift
• Know where emergency STOP, and START/STOP buttons are located and ensure all Lock Out/Tag Out procedures for machine are followed when necessary
• Provide business and technical leadership necessary to ensure the production line(s) meets and/or exceed goals in critical manufacturing success areas of Safety, Food Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost
• Perform as a front-line leader in a complex food manufacturing facility, providing motivation, training, coaching, support, inspiration and direction to diverse work force
• Work and/or attend meetings during other shifts (including off-shifts and/or weekends) as necessary
• Establish and sustain positive employee relations through effective communications with all employees in order to foster an environment where innovation and cooperation are used to solve problems
• Promote positive employee and labor relations in a Union environment through effective conflict management and issue resolution
• Provide effective, timely and fair performance and discipline feedback to team members and document as needed
• Must be able to track daily results to ensure appropriate and immediate actions are taken to achieve business goals and objectives
• Enforces compliance and drives accountability with company policies, procedures, and operational standards by effectively communicating expectations and changes to teams and holding the team accountable to those standards
• Develops Action Plans to address opportunities for reducing unplanned downtime and waste within the Bakery
• Prepare, maintain and finalize all necessary paperwork for shift
• Ensure employees are maintaining a clean work area and that they are cleaning throughout the shift.
• Coordinates and Audits Job Instruction training for team members
• Conducts shift huddles and provides feedback for Team Members
• Trains, retrains and cross trains all team members
• Confirm readiness of area for next shift and supervisor
• Completes other duties as assigned
• Optimizing production equipment and processes using continuous improvement solutions designed to meet and exceed production standards and objectives
• Develops Action Plans to address opportunities for reducing unplanned downtime and waste within their Line/Shift
• Confirms production line(s) is properly shutdown, cleaned and reset for next shift
• Addresses all maintenance and sanitation needs immediately to ensure effective line operations with minimal waste.
• Works seamlessly with operational counterparts to ensure that key performance indicators related to production performance are positively impacted
• Able to perform as a backup to peer supervisor(s) and/or Shift Manager when necessary