Production Supervisor 1st Shift

In this role, you will be at the heart of our operations—leading the front lines, overseeing the entire production process from tracking yields to real‑time adjustments, ensuring safety and USDA health standards at every stage. Your oversight will directly contribute to maintaining the trusted quality of brands such as Smithfield, Eckrich, and Nathan’s Famous. As a supervisor, you guide and lead production employees during your shifts, ensuring production targets are met on time and to the highest quality standards. You play a pivotal role in training, coaching, and motivating the team while maintaining safety and quality, driving clear communication across all levels, and maximizing efficiency while minimizing costs. What You’ll Do Safety and Compliance: Perform daily inspections on the production floor, identify unsafe conditions, take corrective actions, lead 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, training employees on safe operating procedures (including lock‑out/tag‑out), and ensuring tasks are performed according to 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 acting as a lead by providing training, coaching, or mentoring to less experienced staff or through 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. Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time. Other Skills That Make You Stand Out Proficiency in SAP, internet tools, spreadsheets, Word, order processing, and inventory software. Experience in food processing, leadership, and manufacturing, with knowledge of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures. Bilingual abilities are a bonus. Physical Demands & Work Environment 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. Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. Physical tasks: frequent standing; walking; using hands to finger, handle, or feel; reaching with hands and arms; stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; talking or hearing. Relocation Package Available Yes IndSPR-Ops 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 veteran 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 Smithfield Foods