The Schedule for this job is Sunday to Thursday 2:00 PM–12:00AM
Supervises production personnel within their assigned department. Responsible for day-to-day operational functions on assigned shift to ensure accuracy, continuous flow process, maintaining quality assurance standards, effective and efficient productivity, achieving labor targets, inventory accuracy, maintaining a safety environment, and training supervisors and leads in production operations while reaching or exceeding all established goals and deadlines.
What You’ll Do:
- Supervises operations on assigned shift and confers with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems to ensure plant is operating at optimum efficiency.
- Supervises production associates, including training, performance management and daily work assignments. Includes coaching, performance feedback and initiating disciplinary/corrective action.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of plant process and equipment, have workable knowledge of industry technological developments and best practices.
- Maintains knowledge of plant quality control, relying on current data and to materials use, technological processes, and industry literature.
- Reviews schedules and production orders to ensure standards for inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, duty assignments and time constraints are met.
- Monitors production lines for correct machine settings for optimum performance while conforming to product specification.
- Ensures timely corrective actions are implemented relating to equipment failures or break downs, quality deviations, sanitation audits, etc.
- Follows and enforces all Good Manufacturing Policies (GMP’s), ensures that Safety Policies are followed.
- Continuously reviews QA product testing for conformance to specifications and alerts superior if product is out of conformance.
- Promotes and maintains positive relationships between intermediate levels of management and employees.
- Ensures proper crewing is scheduled for each shift, according to the workload in all areas of the Production Department.
- Participates in cross--functional teams, such as production meetings, quality meetings, safety committee, etc.
- Supports the review, understanding and compliance of all programs, policies and procedures contained in the Food Safety and Quality Management System.
· Ensures the assigned department is following sanitation practices and following housekeeping rules.
· Collaborates with other managers and supervisors to coordinate activities in and among departments.
· Engages with and understand the sanitation process as it relates to the assigned department.
· Collects, evaluates, analyzes, and assesses production data.
· Monitors and observes trimming operations to improve and or reduce loss.
· Evaluates the trim and purge data per load and reports to superiors if defects are high.
· Ensures all associates are trained on trimming and tumbling practices and follow the internal rule of “No Bad Bites”
- Performs other duties as assigned, including but not limited to participation on HACCP team and assisting in the investigation of quality issues or customer complaints.
- Performs all duties in accordance with safety, Quality, and USDA rules and regulations.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
What You’ll Need:
· Working knowledge of manufacturing process.
· Supervisory experience and knowledge of current management and supervisory techniques.
· Knowledge of correct application of systems and processes that ensures continuous improvement (safety, quality and manufacturing).
· Demonstrated knowledge of effective and administrative and office procedures.
· Ability to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to resolve issues.
· Ability to effectively work independently or in a team environment.
· Ability to resolve operational problems related to projects and minimize delays or unexpected cost increases.
· Proactive, resourceful and highly…