This position is 3rd Shift.

About the Wellness Pet Company

The Wellness Pet Company crafts and produces premium natural pet food, treats, dental chews, and supplements. We believe that natural, premium nutrition focused on proven health outcomes is the foundation of creating a mutual wellbeing for pets and their families. As a community of people, Wellies are positively obsessed about how to win for pets and their parents. We believe in the difference we make every single day, and we know that when we work collaboratively, Wellies are unstoppable -- Not only in providing the best nutrition to pets, but in building a better tomorrow for pets, their parents, and the world.

Your #lifeatwellnesspet

When you join Wellness Pet, you join a team whose aligned values and purpose create a unique and exciting place to work every day. Join us on our adventure to fulfill a life of wellbeing together with pets and their parents.

Our manufacturing facilities are committed to nutritional innovation, product quality, and safety. To ensure our product quality, we control the entire manufacturing process, from consistent quality checks on all raw materials coming into the plant, to the shipment of our finished product to customers. Our employees take pride in the natural products we produce for the pets who depend on us. We offer our employees a positive, friendly work environment where you can develop your skills, receive competitive pay, and excellent benefits – Come for a walk with us today!

What You’ll Accomplish

The Production Shift Supervisor provides supervision across functionalities to maintain safety standards (both employees and food) while ensuring that the lines meet budgeted rates. Enforces all policies - maintains proper staffing levels, training and is actively involved in employee development.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Directly supervise employees in Production.
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Responsible for both employee safety as well as food safety. Actively involved in; coaching employees on all aspects of performing their duties in the safest manner possible for both personal safety and food safety.
• Conducts regular Employee Communication Meetings.
• Oversee adherence to production and packaging schedules and distributes staffing. Works with other team members to reach budgeted line rates, to prevent out of specification production, oversee line maintenance, manage raw material changes, and when necessary, uses the hold process to prevent out of specification product from reaching the customer.
• Responsible for coaching and developing team members. Facilitates team problem solving, decision making, fair and timely disciplinary action, and conflict resolution. Ensures performance appraisals and progress reports are done in a timely manner. Facilitates the communication between shifts and teams.
• Work with team leads to ensure that crew is properly cross trained.
• Act as on-shift representative for emergency response coordination, compliance to Company policies (drug/alcohol, attendance, EEO, etc.) Responds to employee issues as needed, conducts thorough investigations and coordinates results/issues.
• Responsible for meeting customer requirements through communication, documentation, training of team members, and adherence to sanitation guidelines and GMP’s, including the HACCP program. Responsible, in part, for meeting requirements of various supplier certification programs and audits. Maintains plant cleanliness to satisfactory degree.
• Demonstrate a daily commitment to the continuous improvement process by following Lean Manufacturing concepts and the Basic Principals. Strive to improve each work process. Identify/implement value added and cost savings activities and projects.
• Must maintain the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
• Must maintain the highest standards of data management by creating consistent, reliable data which will ensure accuracy and in turn, maximize the use of data and confidence in decision making.
• Proactively manage safety by ensuring compliance with all Federal and State regulations and internal Company policies. Regularly complete behavior-based safety observations. Ensure unsafe conditions are corrected in a timely manner.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Workplace Safety:

• Completes safety system documentation and verifies compliance to program standards. Reports deviations to Supervisor.
• Participates in mandatory safety trainings and adheres to all safety policies
• Required to report all safety issues, near misses, and injuries

Quality & Food Safety:

• Completes quality & food safety system documentation and verifies compliance to program standards. Reports deviations to Supervisor.
• Participates in mandatory food safety and quality training program requirements
• Preserves the integrity of the BRC system through adherence to the policies and procedures outlined. Takes actions necessary to resolve food safety and quality system deficiencies
• Required to report food safety and quality system failures and take actions necessary to preserve the BRC system.

Who We’re Looking For

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed in all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so we are seeking an individual who:

• Is consumer focused in all they do
• Continually challenges themselves to go the extra mile to get the job done, and ensures it’s done the right way as opposed to the easy way
• Hold themselves and others accountable
• Embraces continual development through the sharing of feedback and investment in learning opportunities
• Is a true collaborator, sharing resources, and engaging in healthy debate
• Celebrates differences and strives to learn from others who are different from themselves
• Gives back to their community and supports sustainable practices
• 3-5 Years experience in a production supervisor/team lead role

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• High School Diploma or GED required
• Experienced in managing employee performance, conducting reviews, coaching, and administering disciplinary action
• Must have strong leadership skills and the ability to manage at least 10 employees
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. Ability to work in an environment which includes frequent exposure to elements such as odor, noise, heat, cold, dust and chemicals

• Previous experience work with extruders, packaging systems and conveying equipment.
• Prior experience in a food or beverage manufacturing.
• Experience operating production machines.

Why Work for Wellness Pet

We care about the wellbeing of our people, their families, and their pets. So we treat every Wellie to a comprehensive benefits package full of extras to support their health, pets, passions, and professional Development. More information about our benefits can be found on our website.

The Wellness Pet Company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

Ready to leash up and take a walk with us? Apply at https://www.wellnesspet.com/careers/

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