Manufacturing Supervisor

Job Description

Job Description

**Fresh-Squeezed Legacy, Bold New Chapter **

Tropicana Brands Group is a $3B startup aiming to revolutionize the beverage category. Formed in 2022 as a joint venture between PAI Partners and PepsiCo, our portfolio includes iconic brands like Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Copella, and Punica. With over 76 years of global leadership in the orange juice category, we’re committed to preserving this legacy while driving innovation in other areas. From reimagining orange juice to creating functional smoothies and driving afternoon refreshments, we are striving to become the undisputed global leader in fresh and chilled beverages.

The Supply Chain function is essential to Tropicana Brand Group’s success by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products. By improving warehouse operations, optimizing transportation routes, and refining inventory management practices, the team plays a critical role in streamlining processes. Collaborating with other departments to align strategies, the Supply Chain team ensures that Tropicana meets customer demands while maintaining a high standard of performance and cost-effectiveness. Through their efforts, they contribute to both short-term achievements and long-term growth.

**Your Next Pour: The Opportunity **

Tropicana Brands Group is looking for a highly qualified Manufacturing Supervisor to support the Packaging Department to ensure the company’s goals and initiatives are met. We are looking for a critical thinker with exceptional communication, influencing and relationship management skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment. This role will be responsible for:

• Ensuring team compliance with all safety policies and procedures
• Maintain product quality and sanitation standards
• Optimize operational efficiencies to support the blending and production
• Track operational output measures (i.e. efficiency, yield loss, product quality, inventory accuracy, transactional accuracy), anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of financial targets
• Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues and reach short- and long-term performance goal

**The Perfect Blend: Experience **

• Deliver effective change leadership to drive business changes while minimizing people impact
• Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues
• Motivate team members to achieve plan goals
• Incorporates Productivity, Yield Loss, TPM and Innovation initiatives into Manufacturing strategic plan
• Builds people capability through effective employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for frontline hourly personnel
• Develops training and organization capability assessments to support business initiatives
• Support cross-functional strategic plans as needed through implementation and execution
• Regular presence on the plant floor
• Administer policies and procedures
• Tackle ambiguous problems to determine and prioritize business strategies
• Ability to structure and prioritize tasks, and focus efforts in an ambiguous work environment
• Demonstrated ability to implement short and long term strategies to support organizational operation and transformation

**Foundational Ingredients: Requirements **

• 3+ years supervising in food and beverage manufacturing
• We are seeking a candidate based in Fort Pierce, FL.
• This role requires off-shift and/or weekend work
• This role requires lifting up to 50 lbs occasionally
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, supply chain, or similar field
• Experience developing/coaching hourly staff preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite applications

**Perks That Pack a Punch **

TBG is pleased to offer you a comprehensive benefits package which includes a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, vision, company provided life, STD and LTD insurance. In addition, you may also elect to participate in voluntary life, accident, hospital, and critical illness coverages.