Production Supervisor 2nd shift

Summary

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/exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.
• Ensure compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, 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/team development.
• Improve quality, yields and throughput on the designated line.

• Demonstrated three years 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, 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/office skills, including competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.
• Minimum
  
  Education Required:
  
  High School/GED.

• 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 freezer, 32‑degree coolers, 40‑degree plant, wet cold environment), noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.

Position will include 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.

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