Production Supervisor - 1st Shift

Production Supervisor

Your role:

As Production Supervisor, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing day-to-day operations for packing, warehouse, and loading department ensuring direct reports are following policies and procedures related to employee safety and food/feed safety. To succeed, you must be able to:

• Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day
• Serve others with understanding, respect, and care
• Operate with simplicity, clarity, and transparency
• Deal with and drive change
• Organize, prioritize, and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines
• Learn and apply new technology, and share your knowledge with others
• Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance, and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner

Your responsibilities:

• Oversees and executes day-to-day operations for department ensuring direct reports are following policies and procedures related to employee safety and food/feed safety
• Partners with Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory experts to implement the most effective approach for complying with corporate safety policies and procedures
• Monitors production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer and food safety requirements are within specifications while providing recommendations for continuous improvements
• Participate and lead process improvement initiatives including Centerlining, Preventative Maintenance, Pristine, 5S, and ELEMEDS (Every Load, Every Mill, Every Day Safely)
• Partners with local plant management to develop approaches for meeting/tracking efficiency standards (scorecard and metrics control, total cost of maintenance, monthly review of compliance audits, etc.)
• Develops planning for future production workforce needs and participates in selection of employees
• Take counts, correct discrepancies, and provide corrective actions/investigations to solve for any inventory count outside of variance range in the digital Vs physical count
• Responsible for workforce engagement, recognition as well as development and coaching to hourly members

Essential skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree or High school diploma/GED equivalent with 4 years of production experience
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience having leadership responsibilities in an industrial environment (milling, agricultural, food production, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated understanding of safety hazards and protocols
• Understanding of computerized maintenance management systems

Good to have:

• Knowledge of maintaining, operating, and troubleshooting packaging equipment and conveying systems
• Training in LEAN, Six Sigma, or other manufacturing and warehousing optimization processes
• Reliability centered maintenance training around packaging equipment best practices

Physical requirements and working conditions (with or without reasonable accommodation):

• Ability to perform work at a computer and other administrative/managerial tasks
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as is required by the operating areas (i.e. safety glasses, protective footwear, hard hat, hearing protection and, at times, a respirator or a harness)
• Ability to work a rotating schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Ability to work a machine-paced continuous process that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with conditions which include:
• Hot/Cold temperatures (inclement weather)
• Indoor/Outdoor environment
• Dusty environment (to include Wheat/Gluten allergens)
• Noisy environment
• Frequent moving/vibration/or other motion of equipment/processes
• Elevated Places
• Ability to perform work safely which may require:
• Frequently standing, walking, rotating, bending/stooping, twisting, crouching, kneeling, balancing and reaching or lifting at varying heights and levels
• Frequently climbing stairs and/or ladders
• Occasionally lifting, shoveling and/or carrying
• Occasionally pushing and/or pulling
• Working in confined or elevated places

Other considerations:

• Must be able to read, interpret instruction and technology and communicate effectively in English
• Must be willing to work alongside your…