Production Supervisor - Rendering​/Casings

Value You’ll Bring

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our operations—leading the charge on the front lines. You’ll oversee the entire production process, from tracking yields to making real‑time adjustments to keep things running smoothly. Ensuring safety and USDA health standards are met at every stage of the manufacturing process will be in your hands. Your efforts will directly contribute to maintaining the trusted quality that brands like Smithfield, Eckrich, and Nathan’s Famous are known for.

As a supervisor, you’ll guide and lead production employees during your shifts, ensuring production targets are met on time and to the highest quality standards. You’ll play a pivotal role in training, coaching, and motivating your team to achieve production goals while maintaining safety and quality. You’ll drive clear communication across all levels, keeping the team aligned with daily objectives and results, while maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs.

You’ll also oversee the routine maintenance and setup of equipment and facilities to keep everything running at peak performance.

• Safety and Compliance: Perform daily inspections on the production floor to identify unsafe conditions and take immediate corrective action as needed. Lead safety audits, champion ergonomic initiatives, and ensure adherence to HACCP and USDA regulations.

• Product Quality and Training: Maintain product quality by enforcing food safety and quality plans, train employees on safe operating procedures (including lock‑out/tag‑out), and ensure tasks are performed according to product specifications.

• Operational Efficiency: Track and analyze production yields, efficiencies, and variances, working with operations managers and supervisors to improve workflows and equipment use to minimize downtime and reduce costs.

• Team Leadership and Communication: Direct and provide guidance to hourly production employees, ensuring alignment on safety, quality, and production goals. Lead monthly line meetings and walk the production floor daily.

• Continuous Improvement: Analyze key product performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and suggest changes to enhance production efficiency, minimize costs, and maintain high standards of quality.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four‑year college or university in business or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience acting as a lead by providing training, coaching, or mentoring to less experienced staff or by managing a process or project.

• Strong communication skills (oral and written) while leading problem‑solving efforts for complex process issues with solid analytical and mathematical abilities.

• Skilled at motivating, training, and coaching employees to achieve peak performance while fostering a positive, respectful, and team‑oriented work environment.

• Adaptable to fast‑paced, dynamic environments, capable of working in varying conditions (heat and cold), and willing to work long hours and weekends when needed.

• Opportunities to travel up to 5% of the time.

• Advanced proficiency with SAP, internet tools, spreadsheets, Word, order processing, and inventory software.

• Experience in food processing, leadership, and manufacturing—knowledge of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures.

• Bonus for bilingual ability.

• Plant environment includes wet or humid conditions, extreme cold and heat, working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.

• Noise level usually moderate but can be loud in production areas.

• Occasional lifting or moving of up to 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.

• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.

Relocation Package Available.

EEO Information

Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non‑job characteristic as directed by law.

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