Production Supervisor

Darigold is seeking a motivated Production Supervisor to join our plant in Pasco, WA. As a member of the Operations team, this person should possess the desire and ability to contribute to the success of the plant. Our plants create nutritious products 24/7, 365 days a year - availability to work multiple shifts, including weekends and holidays is a must!

• Provide leadership and supervision for the assigned production shift and associated personnel.
• Supervises, coordinates, and monitors activities of workers engaged in processing and production.
• Mobilize plant personnel to facilitate the achievement of plant objectives.
• Effectively motivate, train, and communicate with their assigned shift teams to assure superior levels of safety, reliability, sanitation, and quality.
• Secures maximum utilization of plant resources in achieving plant objectives.
• Instill operational knowledge and procedures to equipment operators to ensure consistent performance and proper use of plant resources.
• Coordinate labor and labor distribution to ensure work completion or to adjust worker assignment to gain greatest result.
• Leverages and promotes ideas and initiatives.

• Ensure individual and team levels of performance meet or exceed goals and expectations.
• Ensures all compliance training is fully accomplished by all associates.
• Formulates, monitors, and tracks schedule and individual employee adherence to the schedule and resolves any attendance issues.
• Ensures that the timekeeping is accurate, up-to-date, and appropriately supported with review notes.
• Monitors and controls PTO use and overtime utilization
• Balance labor against production volume
• Observes, coaches, trains, and intervenes with workers to ensure highest expected performance capability.
• Work with HR and senior plant leadership in addressing performance issues.

• Confers with supervisors of on-coming and off-going shifts to determine production changes, needs, and exposures.
• Communicates with and informs workers of production changes, and production issues.
• Prepare and conduct team meetings as necessary for proper communications and development of teams.
• Recommends and participates in continuous improvement projects.

• Direct operations in receiving, sampling, quality measures, processing, handling, and packaging as well as inventory management and control.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot equipment issues.
  Inspect all machinery in assigned work arena to ensure compliance with OSHA and HACCP standards:
• Consult with maintenance to ensure compliance with MSS and PM scheduling standards.
• Work with the Engineering and Quality Assurance staff to create a cooperative environment on their assigned shift.
• Develop an expert knowledge of the production process and all associated equipment. Be able to troubleshoot manufacturing issues and develop the team to be self-directed in the same activities analytically and systematically.
• Participate in and lead teams to improve safety, quality, reliability, sanitation and reduce waste.
• Reinforce sense of urgency during production runs and periods of machine downtime.
• Effectively communicate issues to management team.
• Isolate and remove impediments to scheduling, production, labor, and safety.
• Proactively identify problems before issues occur and take correct course of action.
• All other duties as necessary to run the operation.

• Perform daily checks, document, reconcile, and report to ensure the highest quality of product is produced and tracked.
• Maintain shift performance and quality documentation.
• Develop and deliver professional level Standard Operating Procedures and train on them and monitor to ensure adherence to them.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory standards and practices.
• Ensure accurate, complete documentation and reporting of safety and environmental incidents and their related corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance of employees and process operations with GMPs, SOPs, and in the proper use of safety equipment and safe work procedures

• Must be able to work variable hours and weekends and extended hours as tasks require.
• Must understand process functions to accomplish high level planning always covering 24-hour periods while maintaining adaptability to process variations and change.
• Must develop and enact contingencies for process and labor scheduling and management.
• Prioritize multiple assignments at the same time and balance to meet established deadlines.

• Experience in the processing of fluid milk products desirable.
• Ability to work in a team environment (as well as independently).
• The ability to work with groups of people with varying levels of education, expertise, and backgrounds.
• Ability to achieve results through others.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be self-motivated and a self-starter.
• Strong computer skills (Word,…