Production Supervisor, 2nd shift - Hartwell

Title: Production Supervisor, 2nd Shift - Hartwell

Location: Hartwell, GA

Reports to: Production Manager

Classification: Exempt

Work Arrangement: On-site

The Production Supervisor is responsible for the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality product, consistently high yields, and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" approach, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (eg other production lines, Safety, QA, Maintenance and Sanitation) to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.

• Use effective supervision, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet or exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs, HACCP and SQF.
• Coordinate and guide the team through production situations such as startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns, and sanitation.
• Facilitate performance appraisal and progressive corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments; identify areas for individual and team development.
• Improve quality, yields and throughput on the designated line.

• Demonstrated at least three years of supervisory or leadership experience with a food‑processing or manufacturing company leading a production team,
  OR a bachelor’s degree with a prior Food Science or Poultry Science (or closely related) internship.
• Demonstrated production knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal skills to include professional oral and written communication, a team‑focused approach, and the ability to model composure and make decisions in stressful situations.
• Proven time‑management and organizational/office skills including competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.

• Poultry facility experience.
• Supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Water Jet Cutting, Further Processing experience preferred).
• Experience with SAP or Infinity.
• Bilingual (English/spanish) strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR.

This position will supervise the production team members at the Hartwell facility.

Wide variations in temperature (-10°F freezer, 32‑degree coolers, 40‑degree plant, wet cold environment), noise, slippery floors, and moving equipment.

Position requires extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

This is an exempt position. The shift varies: first, second, third or floater. Some Saturday work is required.

Travel is not required.

Successful completion of a pre‑employment drug test and background check is required.

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to provide or assume work sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

Brakebush Brothers, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in our hiring, training, or promotion policies. We will not discriminate against job applicants or employees for reasons of race, religion, color, sex, handicap, age, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by law.