Production Supervisor, 3rd shift West

City, State: Irving, TX

Reports to: Production Manager

Classification: Exempt

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 (e.g. other Production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, 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 the 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 three years of supervisory or leadership skills 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, including 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 Irving facility.

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

Position includes 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 required.

Travel is not required.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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 currently unable to sponsor or assume 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.

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Please see our Benefits Page to learn more about the amazing Health and Wellness Benefits offered to our employees!

Nearest Major Market:
Irving

Nearest Secondary Market:
Dallas

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. If you need assistance with the application process, please call (800) 933‑2121 or visit our contact us page for more ways to reach us.