Production Supervisor

Production Supervisor

The Production Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products ensuring adherence to safety, quality, quantity specifications, and cost.

Key skills include people management, operational and sanitation knowledge, training ability, developing expectations, driving results with data, and follow-through.

The Production Supervisor ensures compliance with all company and regulatory processes, including but not limited to Safety, Food Safety, Human Resources, and job-specific requirements. They work to continuously improve production and sanitation best practices through training, standards development, data analysis, escalations, and reporting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development. Ensures a safe and healthy workplace.
• Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control.
• Adheres to safe work practices, GMPs, and maintains product quality. Reports any conditions affecting food safety, quality, or personnel safety to management.
• Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
• Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
• Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services.
• Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs.
• Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
• Participates on plant safety team. Always ensures regulatory compliance.
• Cooperates with all departments to ensure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
• Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
• Maintains consistent communications and participates in and leads meetings as required.
• Leads and/or participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develops self and team members' skill sets to continuously improve work standards and performance.
• Drives individual accountability and ownership of results. Fosters accountability for direct reports in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
• Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e. timekeeping, downtime records, absentee records, etc.).
• Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
• Minimal travel required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• 2- 3 years supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry. Or a college degree in engineering.

The pay range for this position is $72,498 - $101,497 per year.