Production Supervisors (2nd Shift and 3rd Shift)
Madison, WI US
Job Description
Production Supervisors (2nd Shift and 3rd Shift)
Immediately hiring Night Shift Production Supervisors. The Production Supervisor is responsible for providing leadership for plant operations during the overnight hours, while creating an environment of respect and responsibility through professional communication, accountability, budget consciousness, teamwork, quality, safety and productivity. This individual will work closely with all departments to establish and enforce safe process methods that ensure operational effectiveness.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- All employees have an obligation to report employee safety, food safety and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
- This position has heightened food safety and food quality responsibilities.
- Manage, mentor and support production operations and employees.
- Work jointly with maintenance to identify equipment issues, establish day to day operational priorities, improve machine efficiency, managing the priority and completion of work on shift.
- Facilitate production expectations with plant personnel; ensuring that goals are met on a day-to-day basis.
- Ensure that processing equipment setups are completed in the timeframe required to meet department expectations and productivity.
- Establish training procedures and processes that improve job knowledge, including cross training.
- Work with safety to establish training procedures and processes that improve job knowledge, including cross training.
- Provide regular updates to department Superintendents.
- Build a strong working relationship with plant personnel, providing leadership, teaching and effective communication methods that ensure enforcement of company policies and procedures.
- Understand software controls which will include addressing system performance issues and training.
- Participate in the annual management review of the Food Safety and Quality System.
- Establish a “zero injury” safety culture and motivate employees to follow safety policies and procedures.
- Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner by gathering and analyzing information skillfully. Work well in group problem solving situations and develop alternative solutions.
- Ability to manage projects by creating workable plans; communicate changes effectively, build commitments and overcome resistance.
- Develop realistic action plans, by prioritizing and planning work activities. Plans for additional resources as needed.
- Include team members in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvement. Makes oneself available to employees, providing regular performance feedback, develop subordinates’ skills and encourages growth.
- Create a positive team with the ability to build morale and group commitments to meet goals and objectives.
- Make oneself available to employees, providing regular performance feedback, develop subordinates’ skills and encourages growth.
- Ability to react well under pressure. Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position. Accepts responsibilities for own actions and follows through on commitments.
- Leads and guides all Quality and Food Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
- Leads and guides all GMP policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
- Take an active role in investigations of customer complaints, determine root cause, implement corrective action and provide follow-up.
- Monitor quality specifications for production and have an awareness of customer expectations.
- Maintain accurate and complete production records and charts.
**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Jeff Fee at jfee@cps4jobs.com.
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Job Requirements
Technical Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) required
- Bachelor’s degree in food science, manufacturing or similar area preferred
- Five years’ experience in dairy or food production, manufacturing, industrial process operations or equivalent combination of education and experience required
- Three years of supervisory experience, preferred
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have basic knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Knowledge of SQF, HACCP, GMP’s, OSHA and loss control programs is highly desirable
**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Jeff Fee at jfee@cps4jobs.com.
JO: 207.23JF
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