What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at Brakebush Brothers, Inc.?
Title: Production Supervisor, 1st Shift Req ID: 8225
City, State: Mocksville, NC
Reports to: Plant Manager
Classification: Exempt
JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary: The Production Supervisor is responsible for the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality and consistent high yields and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" mentality, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (such as other production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.
Essential Functions:
- Empowers team members, through supervision, training, and feedback opportunities, to meet and exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.
- Ensure compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF.
- Coordinates and guides team on a variety of production situations including start-ups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.
- Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments.
- Improves quality, yields and throughput.
Required Qualifications:
- Demonstrated three years supervisory or leadership skills with a food-processing or manufacturing company leading a production team OR a bachelor’s degree with a prior Food Science or Poultry Science (or closely related) internship.
- Demonstrated production knowledge.
- Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional verbal and written communication, a team-focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.
- Able to organize and coordinate work within schedule constraints and handle emergent requirements in a timely manner.
- Competent in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and Outlook
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in poultry science, food science, biological sciences, or closely related field
- Prior supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Further Processing experience preferred)
- Prior experience with SAP or Infinity
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
- Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR
Supervisory Responsibility: This position will supervise the production team members at the Mocksville facility.
Work Environment: Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.
Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.
Position Type: This is an exempt position. The shift varies: first, second, third or floater. Some Saturday work required.
Travel: Travel is not required.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.
Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.
Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.
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