COLD ROOM PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Essential Duties

• Ensure compliance with all internal and external food production regulations and legislation.
• Establish, coordinate and enforce operational procedures and standards to ensure high product quality is produced.
• Organize and plan for current and long-term goals along with having a contingency plan for unpredictable outcomes.
• Cooking room production activities such as product preparation, cutting, sorting, packaging and cleaning.
• Manage and inspect quality of received product, trimmed product, and waste.
• Manage the overall production of processed produce for shipment to our customers and ensure the final product meets set specifications.
• Assign tasks appropriately, using all resources and support available to meet or exceed productivity and quality standards, and appraise the results.
• Walk processing department daily to identify sanitation issues and address.
• Maintain the physical condition of the processing department and all food production equipment within the department, ensuring workplace health and safety requirements are met.
• Ensure Training is completed for processing personnel.
• Act as liaison between all departments and processing.

Qualifications

• Food production industry preferred.
• Fresh produce experience preferred.
• Able to adapt to changes quickly and make production decisions as needed.
• Must have supervisor, time management and decision-making skills.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate in English.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact tactfully and effectively with all business operators and diverse company personnel.