Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Overview

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• Safety and Compliance:
  Perform daily inspections on the production floor to identify unsafe conditions and take immediate corrective action as needed. Lead safety audits, champion ergonomic initiatives, and ensure adherence to HACCP and USDA regulations.
• Product Quality and Training:
  Maintain product quality by enforcing the Food Safety and Food Quality plans, train employees on safe operating procedures (including lock-out/tag-out), and ensure tasks are performed according to product specifications.
• Operational Efficiency:
  Track and analyze production yields, efficiencies, and variances; work with Operations Managers and Supervisors to improve workflows and equipment use to minimize downtime and reduce costs.
• Team Leadership and Communication:
  Direct and guide hourly production employees, ensuring alignment on safety, quality, and production goals. Lead monthly line meetings and walk the production floor daily.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Analyze key product performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and suggest changes to enhance production efficiency, minimize costs, and maintain high standards of quality.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Business or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• Experience acting as a lead by providing training, coaching or mentoring to less experienced staff or through managing a process or project.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) while leading problem-solving efforts for complex process issues with solid analytical and math abilities.
• Skilled at motivating, training, and coaching employees to achieve peak performance while fostering a positive, respectful, and team-oriented work environment.
• Adaptable to fast-paced, dynamic environments, capable of working in varying conditions (heat and cold), and willing to work long hours and weekends when needed.
• This role offers the opportunity to travel up to 5% of the time.

• Savvy with SAP, internet tools, spreadsheets, Word, order processing, and inventory software.
• Experience in food processing, leadership, and manufacturing; knowledge of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures will be key.
• Bonus points if you are bilingual.

• The plant environment includes wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold and heat (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.
• Noise level is usually moderate but can be loud in the production area.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.

IndSPR-Ops — Relocation Package Available:
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