Production Supervisor, 3rd shift West

Title: Production Supervisor, 3rd shift West

Location: Irving, TX

Reports to: Production Manager

Classification: Exempt

Summary: The Production Supervisor oversees placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and resources to ensure quality product, high yields, and line efficiency. Using a "One Team, One Mission" approach, the role collaborates with multiple departments—other production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and Sanitation—to achieve food/personal safety, minimize downtime, and reduce waste and excess costs.

Essential Functions:

• Provide effective supervision, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet or exceed productivity, quality, waste-management, and food/personal‑safety expectations.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, safety regulations, GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs, HACCP, and SQF.
• Coordinate and guide team through production situations such as startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change‑management concerns, and sanitation.
• Facilitate performance appraisals and progressive corrective actions to promote a positive and safe teamwork environment, identifying opportunities for individual and team development.
• Improve quality, yields, and throughput on the designated line.

Required Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Supervisory Responsibility: This position supervises the production team members at the Irving facility.

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

Physical Demands: Extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory‑required equipment while working in production; walking, visual tasks, responding quickly to sounds, and occasional driving.

Position Type: Exempt; shift can be first, second, third, or floater with some Saturday work required.

Travel: Not required.

Other Duties: Duties may change at any time with or without notice.

Successful completion of a pre‑employment drug test and background check are 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, leave of absence, compensation, and training.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the United States; we are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas. Brakebush is committed to complying with pay‑transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Management and Manufacturing;
Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing