Location:
Chaska, MN, US, 55318
55318
Job Type: Bakery Operations
55318
Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 15 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.
The Production Supervisor will oversee daily operations on the production line, ensuring adherence to safety, food safety, and production guidelines. Reporting to the Production Manager, this role involves supervising staff, managing performance, and maintaining compliance with regulatory and internal standards. Key responsibilities include leading shift operations, improving safety awareness, and implementing process improvements to meet performance targets. The ideal candidate will excel in team building, clear communication, and proactive problem-solving to maintain high standards of safety, quality, and productivity.
Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the highest standard for safety awareness, training completion, and accountability for unsafe behavior by our personnel. Identify and execute opportunities to improve.
• Organize and supervise the operations and work practices throughout their shift, ensuring safety standards, performance standards, and customer specifications are met.
• Maintain business processes in support of food safety audits, regulatory requirements, and internal business control audits.
• Responsible for aspects of leading the staff including hiring, coaching, managing performance and development planning.
• Lead entire shift operations while delivering key performance indicators i.e., safety, quality, cost and service.
• Manage execution of daily management activities such as team meetings, shift exchanges, daily direction-setting, visual controls, status-at-a-glance boards, etc.
• Manage line equipment, employees, and raw materials so that all are prepared to meet the production scheduled by planning and aniticipating production needs.
• Actively work on building highly effective Production teams through team building, clear communication cadence, and provide ongoing coaching.
• Analyze causes of variances and scrap levels to implement improvements to meet efficiency targets and utilization.
• Coach employees in proper techniques and follow through to ensure there is adequate understanding to perform tasks assigned.
• Maintain and monitor all pre-requisite systems within the facility to ensure that all required documentation is consistently and accurately completed.
• Identify problems, coordinate and facilitate cross functional meetings as required to implement solutions in regards to Safety, Qualty, and Productivty.
• Verify the readiness of the production line at start-up and change overs.
• Communicate with other departments in the bakery to address issues and maintain/elevate standards of safety, quality, and productivity.
• Implement process improvement initiatives
• Analyze performance data in order to identify business opportunities
• Other projects or duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• A high school diploma or GED is required. A bachlors degree is preferred
• 3-5 years production supervisor experience in a food production environment
• Must have proven leadership and supervisory skills
• Must be able to lift 50lbs
• Must have working knowledge of Microsoft office products
• Ablility to learn and utilize SAP

Shift: 3rd
Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.