Production Supervisor

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About the Organization Vienna Beef was founded in 1893. Austrian-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichel and Samuel Ladany introduced their family frankfurter recipe at the legendary Columbian Exposition/World's Fair. The hot dog was a hit, and Vienna Beef was born.

125 years later, we're still making our sausages the old-fashioned way, with premium domestic beef and our original recipe, to the highest of quality standards.

• Schedule, direct and supervise the production of pickles responsibilities according to FDA regulations, FSIS directives, company specifications, and customers’ order requirements.
• Maximize the effect of labor, equipment and raw materials to positively impact company profits and to achieve departments’ tonnage goals based on seasonal customers ordering volume.
• Develop and administer Pickle Production departments’ staffing training, workload and staff scheduling to meet customer product requirements, processing needs, and quality demands.

• Customer demands / workload
• Prior to each shift evaluate customer product demand information, in-process inventory levels, raw materials on hand, the scheduled labor, processing equipment and machinery available to plan the production lines according to departmental standards.
• Collect and retain weekly tonnage and volume data.
• Evaluate historical volume data, pending orders and raw materials in-process quantities and order raw material on a weekly basis. Adjust request for raw materials to be purchased as necessary.
• Schedule the week as balanced as possible to maximize Production capabilities to meet companies volume profit potential.
• Pre-stage and rotate raw materials based on oldest used first.
• Schedule and maintain working inventory levels according to processing demands.
• During the shift continue to evaluate and adjust labor and line set ups as customer demand, product and machinery availability changes.
• Conduct product yield and time efficiency studies to continue improvement on labor and product out put.
• Help coordinate support from other departments / divisions of Vienna Beef.
• Support various departments with labor and machinery
• Monitor inventories levels and produce when necessary items which supports the production demands of other departments.
• Monitor and communicate with the sanitation team the required support as needed during the shift. Identify areas in the department, which require deep cleaning schedules to maintain a wholesome work environment.

• Assign designated operators to support quality related functions for the company’s Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Qualify the HACCP and SOP operators through Quality Assurance Department’s continuing training and licensing program.
• Direct and supervise the qualified HACCP and SOP operators to record the time and control measurements as required by the company’s HACCP and SOP plans.
• Monitor and verify on a shiftily basis the HACCP and SOP information gathered during the shift. Take actions and document activities as necessary to avoid deviations to the plans.
• Respond to departmental HACCP and SOP deviations and help develop and implement corrective actions in a timely manor.
• Monitor environmental sanitary conditions and employee Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s).
• Monitor, evaluate and approve the raw materisl. The raw material must meet the company’s quality standards.
• Record operational sanitational events daily on shift Standard Sanitational Operating Procedures (SSOP) form.
• Record deviations and action taken to abate the occurrence on the Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) Corrective Action Report.
• Collect lot control and store all lot and vat control numbers to fulfill department’s data retention responsibility to the company’s recall program.