Production Supervisor - Vacation Relief

Darigold is looking for a Vacation Relief Production Supervisor at our Rainier plant in Seattle, WA. The Production Supervisor provides leadership and supervisory coordination in all aspects of production. As a member of the Rainier team the Production Supervisor will be a partner in the Operations Division. The Production Supervisor’s role is to maintain a high level of productivity and continuous improvement with their assigned shift in the areas of safety, reliability, cost savings, team building and personnel management.

Reference Operational Priorities of People, Safety, Quality, Waste Reduction, Productivity, and Environmental Compliance.

• 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 manpower 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 analytically and systematically troubleshoot manufacturing issues and develop the team to be self-directed in the same activities.
• 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, manpower, and safety.
• Proactively identify problems before issues occur and take correct course of action.

• 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
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