Production Supervisor, 1st Shift

Amy's People and Production Supervisor is integral in achieving our vision of building a thriving, collaborative, efficient, engaged and sustainable organization that we can all take pride in. Our People and Production Supervisor helps achieve our vision by leading a team to support the people, planet and performance strategies and measures of our manufacturing organization, and by always exhibiting our core values.

In particular, the People and Production Supervisor establishes a Safety Always culture for the team, drives engagement, minimizes waste (e.g. high yield, low disposals), ensures the highest product quality, and delivers performance objectives to support Amy's financial freedom. Our People and Production Supervisor should demonstrate the capability to lead people, including communicating effectively with the team members, providing feedback, holding others accountable, helping effect change, setting a positive tone and fostering an environment of success.

• Proactively and consistently leads a Safety Always culture where safety is built into the way employees think and act.
• Ensure compliance with People and Food Safety processes, GMPs and SOPs, performs safety risk assessments and reports non-compliance.
• Ensure that employee restrictions are adhered to and appropriately approved accommodations are followed.
• Ensure team and work area are audit ready at all times.

• Drive engagement through effective daily leadership (including solicitation of feedback and empowerment of employees) and Gallup follow-through sessions.
• Responsible for staffing, performance evaluations, delivering feedback, preparing and maintaining proper documentation, onboarding and retention activities.
• Ensure team members have the proper training and tools to perform their jobs.
• Identify and communicate development opportunities for employees.
• Collaborate with the Manufacturing Administrator to ensure that all timekeeping, attendance, PTO and payroll records are accurate, approved and submitted on time.
• Effectively utilizes the capabilities of Line Performance Operators to ensure performance of the line.

• Manufacture product according to quality and sensory standards and reports irregularities.
• Attend product tasting for the shifts as the BU Manager deputy.

• Lead team in achieving production objectives by daily communication of performance expectations and sharing information that impacts the team in achieving their goals.
• Monitor and maintains productivity levels by delivering and reviewing performance reports and KPIs (Safety, People, Quality, Delivery and Cost).
• Support on-time start-up of the lines (interfacing with support departments) and shift handoffs.
• Responsible for determining needs for schedule change, pending rework, appropriate response to line interruptions (including resolution of equipment downtime), and work orders for the area.
• Lead and participate in Root Cause Analyses as appropriate or requested.
• Responsible for MOS Tier1 process for their area verifying that data is accurate, and boards are updated hourly.
• With Manufacturing Administrator ensures daily collection and review of batch sheets and disposal forms for completeness and accuracy.
• Responsible for preparing required documentation, including submission of MCRs for process changes and SOP updates.

• Supervises assigned production and packaging employees and Line Performance Technicians.

• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university; or four years of food and/or manufacturing related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Active listening skills
• Builds and maintains relationships easily
• Is approachable, empathic, and compassionate; boosts self-esteem and maintains respect
• Works easily with diverse styles and people from different backgrounds
• Can respectfully and clearly give and receive feedback
• Able to confront issues and conflict in a respectful, constructive and productive manner.
• Able to maintain composure in high pressure situations with all levels of staff.
• Able to train others to perform to standards.
• Cooperates easily with peers and others. Can collaborate across organizational boundaries.

• Motivates others with positive, encouraging messages and spirit.
• Provides vision and direction to help others achieve goals.
• Effectively coaches others to reach their potential.
• Works proactively to correct performance issues and address problems.
• Initiates process improvement and problem solving. Able to lead a team to solve problems.
• Can think strategically; yet, operate effectively at the 'ground level.'

• Familiar with Windows Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Will be required to write procedures and work with spreadsheets
• Ability to create charts to summarize and present results

• Ability to read, write and interpret…