Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident's global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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This job does not provide room and board

Summary: The Production Supervisor plans, directs, coordinates, and controls activities of workers engaged in production by performing the following duties.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilizes production schedules to schedule staffing, assign job duties and meet run rates.
• Develops and executes a process plan including people, resources, equipment, and floor space.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Coordinates manpower requirements by increasing or decreasing personnel and overtime to meet changing conditions.
• Drives a culture of continuous improvement by recommending measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Responsbile for onboarding, training, coaching and engagement of Seafood Processors, Leads, and Machine Operators.
• Maintains time and production records through Ceridian, Excel and other workflows.
• Learns activities of all workers and performs if needed.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Responds to grievances accordingly and works with subordinates, and human resources to discuss and eliminate problems.
• Ensures products conform to specification and meet all food safety and quality (FSQA) requirements. Prioritizes Good Manufacturing Practices with team members.
• Engages with Trident Performance System through Kaizen participation, pillar team membership, and workstream ownership.
• Works with maintenance associates to achieve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) goals. If performance is not met, completion of Root Cause Analysis to eliminate recurrence.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Acquires knowledge of Trident's Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 1 years of experience as a supervisor in a manufacturing production environment with specific experience managing production lines.
• HS Diploma or equivalent
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate degree or equivalent from two- year college or technical school.
• 3 years of experience as a supervisor in a manufacturing production environment
• Food manufacturing experience, specifically batter/breaded seafood.
• Continuous Improvement training (Root Cause Analysis, Green Belt, Lean ect).
• Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects

• regularly up to 10 pounds
• frequently up to 25 pounds
• occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception