About This Role
This role is responsible for the daily staffing and management of production and packaging rooms, ensuring operating equipment runs properly to produce safe, high-quality products in a safe manufacturing environment. The supervisor translates the weekly production schedule to the floor level, ensuring products are produced, labeled, and quantified correctly, while also ensuring employees are trained in safe working practices.
Responsibilities
- Create daily plan for where individuals are stationed in the production process
- Conduct, oversee, and audit training of all employees in their designated area
- Implement and translate daily production schedule at floor level, ensuring it is met in terms of formula translation and number of required batches
- Ensure finished product is properly labeled per customer requirements
- Make sure all necessary raw materials are available and properly staged for efficient production of the daily production schedule
- Work with inventory, warehouse, and ordering personnel
- Translate the company’s food quality and food safety procedures, policies, and protocols, including HACCP, onto the production floors, completing all necessary record keeping and documentation encompassed with all programs
- Ensure facility meets WDATCP, FDA, and USDA requirements as well as the BRC and customer audits
- Participate in the Risk Management Program as applicable
- Assist in accident/near miss incidents as needed
- Perform daily pre-op audits
- Review occupational JSA’s as needed
- Problem solve any people or equipment related issues on production floors as they occur
- Utilize Redzone to ensure breakdowns are documented correctly
- Ensure all Redzone checks are completed and correct
- Assist with product change-overs as necessary
- Provide direction to leads on how to manage breaks in their designated areas
- Ensure equipment is ready for end of day/week sanitation procedures
- Generate documentation for use on the production area
- Make employment decisions and/or recommendations such as hiring, improvement plans, transfers, promotions, corrective actions, terminations, and pay adjustments
- Manage employee performance and assist employees in making improvements to their performance through coaching and mentoring and administering performance reviews
- Recommend, plan, and/or implement employee training and skill development activities
- Coordinate and manage the work of employees by directing members of the team to meet the area’s goals
- Audit regularly to ensure standard operating procedures are being adhered to
- Audit, maintain, and ensure employee time-keeping and absentee records are accurate and processed weekly
