About This Role
The Production Supervisor plays a crucial role in achieving manufacturing staff results by overseeing job expectations, monitoring performance, and fostering a cooperative work environment. This position involves managing workflow, ensuring quality service, and maintaining a safe and clean work environment within the food manufacturing industry.
Responsibilities
- Accomplish manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures
- Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities
- Maintain workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments
- Complete production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards
- Ensure operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques
- Provide manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests
- Create and revise systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change
- Maintain safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures
- Maintain working relationship with the union by following the terms of the collective bargaining agreement
- Resolve personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
Requirements
- Grade 12
- Diploma in Operations Management or Industrial Engineering
- Chamber of baking, will be an added advantage
