4th Shift Operations Supervisor

4th Shift Operations Supervisor

Supervises a team of Production Workers and their daily activities to ensure the needs of all functions within the area are met (production, training, safety, security and housekeeping). Provides leadership/direction to the team and ensures that all the procedures for food safety and manufacturing high quality products are achieved.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Personnel

• Ensure proper staffing is maintained, including interviewing and hiring new team members.
• Implement and monitor training for new hires & ongoing training of current team members.
• Maintain attendance records, counsel team members with poor attendance, & follow up with coaching/discipline as appropriate.
• Evaluate team member work performance, conduct appropriate reviews for team members, address complaints and resolve conflicts, reward or discipline accordingly. Provide input for termination decisions.
• Review, correct, and approve timekeeping tool to ensure team members are paid correctly each pay-period.

Safety

• Enforce all safety rules and company policies; provide appropriate interpretation of company policies and safety policies for team members.
• Immediately report all accidents and deficiencies to management; complete accident investigations and report within 24 hours of incident.
• Verify work and storage areas are maintained, safe, clean, and organized.
• Ensure safety devices are installed and working properly.
• Perform all duties within OSHA and company safety standards;
  Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO), wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and maintain safety equipment.
• Complete and review all Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), and Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOP) requirements and paperwork. This includes but not limited to Pre-Operational Inspection, Operational Inspections, Pre-Shipment Review, and Corrective Actions.

Quality

• Ensure quality protocols are followed and openly communicated with QC and the Plant Manager in order to fix defects and ensure quality standards are consistently met.
• Maintains quality product by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Recommend methods to improve manufacturing processes including equipment performance to ensure product quality and increase efficiencies.
• Supports successful implementation of SQF (Safe Quality Foods) within the facility.
• Drive and support Continuous Improvement (CI) efforts.
• Understand the concepts of FIFO (First-In-First-Out) on perishable products and ensure successful implementation of FIFO throughout packaging operations within the facility.
• Ensure all required sanitation functions are within acceptable standards.

Productivity

• Monitor and track inedible, rework and down time generated by machine.
• Perform production paperwork, receiving, and inventory control procedures with complete accuracy.
• Identifies, through a proactive approach, potential cost-saving and efficiency gain opportunities to improve overall operations.
• Discuss work goals vs. actual output with team members to motivate and engage team members to assure targets are met.
• Identify, control and follow up on losses incurred due to substandard supplies, i.e., time and materials.
• Manage inventory and cost control.
• Implement and monitor weekly requisitions for daily supplies and manufacturing supplies.
• Conduct accurate weekly, period end, and year-end departmental inventories.
• Compile, store, and retrieve production data.

Leadership

• Provides direction to team members to ensure quality products and adherence to productivity goals and cost standards
• Demonstrate professionalism; encourage and insist on positive attitudes and behaviors from team members such as dependability, and trustworthiness in team members.
• Create and cultivate positive work relationships at all levels of the plant/organization.
• Build and support a culture of openness and accountability within (and outside) the assigned department.

Communication

• Communicate with peers, subordinates, and leaders in an effective, timely manner
• Keep Assistant Plant Manager & other leaders informed daily of problems incurred during shift.
• Confer with appropriate personnel to coordinate activities between departments.

Misc. Responsibilities

• Coordinate all functions related to the operations of all processing procedures, and specifications.
• Monitor product coding related to the lot traceability program and ensure its accuracy.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as necessary.

SCHEDULE:

Friday-Sunday 6:00 pm - 6:00 am (hours may vary)

Required

Education:

High School Diploma or GED*

Required Experience:

Minimum of 2+ years' experience in manufacturing and 1+ years Lead experience

Preferred: 2+ years of Supervisory experience, Leadership in food manufacturing industry.

* A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR GED IS EQUIVALENT TO TWO YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE and ABILITIES:

• Able to supervise, instruct, and direct Team Members
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities, identify and address…