Packaging Supervisor - Nights

Responsibilities

• Own shift-level performance for packaging operations, including safety, quality, service, and cost, across blow molding, filling, sleeving, case packing, palletizing, and all auxiliary and cleaning equipment.
• Directly supervise, coach, and develop packaging operators, ensuring employees are trained, certified, and capable of safely operating equipment to standard while meeting daily production requirements.
• Hold employees accountable to company policies, procedures, processes and conduct through timely coaching, documentation, and collaboration with management on progressive discipline.
• Ensure accurate time and attendance administration, validating attendance points, and addressing discrepancies promptly.
• Lead all aspects of shift execution, including production runs, sanitation activities, changeovers, and planned shutdowns, ensuring adherence to schedules, standards, and priorities.
• Facilitate effective shift handover and daily direction-setting meetings, clearly communicating priorities, risks, performance gaps, and expectations to ensure continuity and accountability across shifts.
• Champion a strong safety culture by immediately addressing unsafe conditions or behaviors, escalating hazards and incidents appropriately, adjusting production plans to mitigate risk, and serving as first responder when trained.
• Communicate proactively with cross-functional partners (Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse, Sanitation, Planning) regarding operating condition changes, production issues, preventative maintenance/work order and quality risks.
• Maintain continuous GMP and safety audit readiness by ensuring cleanliness and compliance of floors, drains, conveyors, and equipment.
• Execute and audit sanitation and equipment standards including Master Sanitation Schedule, Centerline, and Clean-Inspect-Lubricate (CIL) tasks.
• Verify proper execution of CIP processes to ensure equipment is production-ready within required timelines.
• Initiate and manage product holds per Quality standards and coordinate with Quality and Warehouse teams for proper segregation and traceability.
• Lead held-product rework activities in alignment with Quality guidance and documentation requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis for shift losses, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Manage consumable inventory daily to support planned production requirements.
• Contribute to the creation, revision, and deployment of SOPs and One Point Lessons (OPLs), ensuring changes are trained and embedded into standard work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or prior supervisory or people-leadership experience with direct oversight of hourly production employees in a high-volume environment.
• Minimum of one (1) year of manufacturing experience in a food and/or beverage environment.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, train, and fairly and consistently hold employees accountable for safety, quality, attendance, and performance expectations.
• Experience leading shift-based manufacturing teams, including setting priorities, managing labor, and responding to real-time production challenges.
• Dairy manufacturing experience, including ESL and/or aseptic processing, preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of automated packaging operations and equipment, including blow molding, filling, labeling/sleeving, case packing, palletizing, and ancillary systems.
• Strong commitment to workplace safety, with the ability to identify hazards, respond to incidents, and promote a culture of safety and accountability.
• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, and quality standards, with experience maintaining audit readiness.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners such as Quality, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams.
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing priorities and high accountability working conditions and physical requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective day one!
• Supplemental health plans (hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance).
• Paid Time Off to recharge and support work-life balance.
• Paid parental leave & adoption assistance (up to $10,000).
• Parental support & family care benefits, including childcare resources and lactation support.
• 401(k) to support retirement planning with up to 9% in employer match.
• Wellness reimbursement (up to $500 for qualified wellbeing expenses).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for emotional wellbeing and work-life support.
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability.
• Employer HSA funding (for HDHP participants).
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $10,000) and student loan repayment ($200/month).
• Learning & development programs to unlock your full potential.
• Rewards & recognition, matching gifts, free product, and Business Resource Groups.