Processing Supervisor

Responsibilities

Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development.
Ensures a safe and healthy workplace.
Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control.
Adheres to safe work practices, GMPs, and maintains product quality.
Reports any conditions affecting food safety, quality, or personnel safety to management.
Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone.
Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks
Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services.
Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs.
Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
Participates on plant safety team.
Always ensures regulatory compliance.
Cooperates with all departments to ensure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
Maintains consistent communications and participates in and leads meetings as required.
Leads and/or participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
Develops self and team members' skill sets to continuously improve work standards and performance.
Drives individual accountability and ownership of results.
Fosters accountability for direct reports in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e. timekeeping, downtime records, absentee records, etc.).
Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
Minimal travel required.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience Required: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or combination of education, training, and relevant experience. 2 or more years' supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry.
Skills and Abilities: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team building skills. Ability to prioritize and follow directions with little/no supervision. Strong organizational skills and ability to perform multi-functional tasks. Must be able to work overtime and/or weekends when required. Bi-lingual is a plus. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and in group situations. Ability to solve practical problems. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats. Ability to learn and utilize various technology systems.