Manufacturing Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

About the role

Join us at Smithfield, a company dedicated to sustainably feeding people worldwide with high-quality food products. This role is crucial for overseeing the production process and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily inspections on the production floor to identify and correct unsafe conditions.
• Lead safety audits and champion ergonomic initiatives.
• Enforce Food Safety and Food Quality plans and train employees on safe operating procedures.
• Maintain product quality by ensuring tasks are performed according to product specifications.
• Track and analyze production yields, efficiencies, and variances to improve workflows and minimize costs.
• Direct and provide guidance to hourly production employees, ensuring alignment on safety, quality, and production goals.
• Lead monthly line meetings and walk the production floor daily.
• Analyze key product performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and suggest changes to enhance production efficiency and maintain high standards of quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Business or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience acting as a lead through training, coaching, or mentoring less experienced staff or through managing processes or projects.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) for leading problem-solving efforts for complex process issues with solid analytical and math abilities.
• Skilled at motivating, training, and coaching employees to achieve peak performance while fostering a positive, respectful, and team-oriented work environment.
• Adaptable to fast-paced, dynamic environments, capable of working in varying conditions (heat and cold), and willing to work long hours and weekends when needed.

Qualifications

• Bring your experience in food processing, leadership, and manufacturing to the table, with knowledge of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures.
• Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

Skills

• Experience in food processing, leadership, and manufacturing.
• Bilingual skills are a plus.

Benefits

Smithfield Foods offers a comprehensive benefits package, including relocation assistance, competitive pay ranging from $55,000 to $82,500 annually, and a supportive work environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.

Pay

The expected pay range for this position is $55,000 - $82,500 annually.

Schedule

This role requires occasional lifting and moving up to 50 pounds, standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle, or feel, reaching with hands and arms, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, talking, and hearing. Noise levels can be moderate to loud, especially in the production area.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Wet or humid conditions (non-weather related).
• Extreme cold and heat (non-weather related).
• Working near moving mechanical parts.
• Exposure to fumes or airborne particles.
• Exposure to chemicals.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Frequent use of close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Work schedule that supports work-life balance.

EEO Information

Smithfield Foods is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.