Production Supervisor

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our operations—leading the charge on the front lines. You’ll oversee the entire production process, from tracking yields to making real‑time adjustments to keep everything running smoothly. Safety and USDA health standards will be your responsibility, ensuring the trusted quality of our brands. What You’ll Do Safety and Compliance: Perform daily inspections on the production floor, conduct 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, working with Operations Managers and Supervisors to improve workflows and equipment use to minimize downtime and reduce costs. Team Leadership and Communication: Direct and provide guidance to 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 quality standards. What We’re Seeking 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. Experience leading by providing training, coaching, or mentoring to less experienced staff or 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. Ability to travel up to 5% of the time. Other Skills That Make You Stand Out Experience 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. Bilingual proficiency. Physical Demands & Work Environment The plant environment includes wet or humid conditions, extreme cold and heat, 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: close vision, distance vision, and adjustment of 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. Relocation Package Available Yes EEO Information Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non‑job characteristic as directed by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at View phone number on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr