Production Supervisor

Production Supervisor

As Production Supervisor, you will oversee day‑to‑day operations for packing, warehouse, and loading departments, ensuring direct reports follow policies and procedures related to employee safety and food/feed safety.

• Deliver results in first‑time situations by inspiring others and earning trust daily
• 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 knowledge with others

• Oversee and execute day‑to‑day operations, ensuring compliance with safety policies and food safety standards
• Partner with Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory experts to implement effective safety practices
• Monitor production outcomes, quantity, and quality to ensure customer and food safety requirements are met and provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Lead process improvement initiatives including Centerlining, Preventative Maintenance, Pristine, 5S, and ELEMEDS (Every Load, Every Mill, Every Day Safely)
• Collaborate with local plant management to develop approaches for meeting and tracking efficiency standards (scorecard and metrics control, total maintenance cost, monthly compliance audits, etc.)
• Develop workforce planning for future production needs and participate in employee selection
• Conduct inventory counts, correct discrepancies, and investigate corrective actions for variances
• Engage workforce, recognize achievements, and coach hourly members

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

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

• Perform administrative and managerial tasks at a computer
• Wear personal protective equipment as required (safety glasses, protective footwear, hard hat, hearing protection, respirator, harness)
• Work a rotating schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Operate in a continuous machine‑paced process 24/7 in conditions that include hot/cold temperatures, indoor or outdoor environments, dusty conditions, noise, vibration, moving equipment, and elevated places
• Perform tasks that may require frequent standing, walking, rotating, bending, twisting, crouching, kneeling, balancing, reaching, lifting at varying heights, climbing stairs or ladders, occasional lifting, shoveling, carrying, pushing, pulling, and working in confined or elevated spaces

• Read, interpret instruction and technology, and communicate effectively in English
• Work alongside the team for long days, evenings, nights, weekends, or holidays
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
• All offers of employment subject to successful drug test and pre‑employment background check (unless prohibited by law)
• Team members must be clean shaven for respiratory protection seals

Ardent Mills is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, or political affiliation. All hiring decisions are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

Martins Creek, PA

Full time