Production Supervisor

Salary Range: $60k-$70k + bonus opportunity

About the Company:

Warabeya North America is a leading food manufacturer specializing in high-quality fresh and ready-to-eat food products. As part of the global Warabeya Nichiyo Group headquartered in Japan, we are dedicated with years of food innovation with a strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Our North American operations are growing, offering a collaborative, fast-paced environment where employees have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact and growth together with the company.

Position Summary:

The Production Supervisor is responsible for supporting the Production Manager and Assistant Production Manager while providing leadership, guidance, and training to production leads and associates. This role is also responsible for ensuring safety, product quality, material availability, workforce accountability, and the efficient delivery of cost-effective products to customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure products are inspected prior to shipment and properly stored, packaged, and prepared for delivery
• Investigate and follow up on customer shortages, damages, and related issues
• Maintain 100% adherence to the daily production schedule and ensure on-time delivery to CDC to meet customer demand
• Control labor costs by minimizing overtime while meeting production and labor standards
• Ensure all employees receive required training and maintain 100% training compliance
• Coordinate with temporary staffing agencies to ensure adequate daily and weekly workforce coverage
• Provide leadership coverage for the Production Manager or Assistant Production Manager during their absence
• Work with inventory control to create a schedule from VTS
• Collaborate with QA, Material Control, Maintenance, and other departments to resolve operational issues and achieve production targets
• Assist in developing a system to trigger audits for variance of what was produced versus shipped
• Assist in developing a system to ensure line leaders are cross-training employees on critical skills, evaluate on a weekly basis
• Assist in evaluating and developing a plan to improve meat slicing and minimize slippage
• Follow guidelines and check sheets set up by QA to monitor appearance and undesirable products, so a quality product is sent to the customer daily
• Enforce food safety throughout the production process
• Track daily productivity and share results with the team
• Ensure weekly schedule is posted in a timely manner
• Follow up from R&D meeting and ensure issues are resolved
• Participate daily, weekly, and monthly meetings to report the results or problems and suggest the improvements
• Prepare and track daily production report
• Review and approve production teams' timecards, timecard correction requests, and time off requests
• Assist in coordinating and preparing the weekly production schedule and update and share with the team as needed

Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform other duties as assigned.

The Company reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and responsibilities of this role as needed to meet business requirements.

Qualifications:

Required

• High school diploma
• 3+ years of experience in the food manufacturing industry
• English and Spanish proficiency in both oral and written
• Basic MS Office skills
• Experience working with USDA and FDA regulatory requirements and compliance processes
• Actively listens and communicates clearly and effectively in both verbal and written forms, adapting to the audience
• Leadership skills to lead team and motivate employees
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to work on holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed
• Flexible mindset with the ability to adapt to change and learn quickly
• Ability to work onsite (remote work is not an option)
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis at the time the employment begins and must not require sponsorship for employment visa status. This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization.

Preferred

• Knowledge of SQF and HACCP

Work Environment and Workplace:

• Work is primarily performed in an indoor environment, including kitchen, manufacturing, and warehouse…