Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

The Value You’ll Bring

You'll be at the heart of our operations—leading the charge on the front lines. You'll oversee the entire production process, from tracking yields to making real-time adjustments to keep things running smoothly. Ensuring safety and USDA health standards are met at every stage of the manufacturing process will be in your hands. Your efforts will directly contribute to maintaining the trusted quality that brands like Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan's Famous, and others are known for.

You'll guide and lead production employees during your shifts, ensuring production targets are met on time and to the highest quality standards. You'll play a pivotal role in training, coaching, and motivating your team to achieve production goals while maintaining safety and quality. You’ll drive clear communication across all levels, keeping the team aligned with daily objectives and results, all while maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs. Plus, you'll oversee the routine maintenance and setup of equipment and facilities to keep everything running at peak performance.

What You’ll Do

• Safety and Compliance: Perform daily inspections on the production floor to identify unsafe conditions and take immediate corrective action as needed. Lead safety audits, champion ergonomic initiatives, and ensure adherence to HACCP and USDA regulations.
• Product Quality and Training: Maintain product quality by enforcing the Food Safety and Food Quality plans, training employees on safe operating procedures (including lock-out/tag-out), and ensuring tasks are performed according to product specifications.
• Operational Efficiency: Track and analyze production yields, efficiencies, and variances, working with Operations Managers and Supervisors to improve workflows and equipment use to minimize downtime and reduce costs.
• Team Leadership and Communication: 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.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze key product performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and suggest changes to enhance production efficiency, minimize costs, and maintain high standards of quality.

Qualifications

• 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, required.
• Experience acting as a lead by providing training, coaching or mentoring to less experienced staff or through managing a process or project.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) while 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.

Other Skills

• If you're savvy with SAP, internet tools, spreadsheets, Word, order processing, and inventory software, we want to see your skills in action!
• Your knowledge of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures will be key to driving success.
• Bonus points if you're bilingual!

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• The plant environment will include 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, and chemicals.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

This role offers the opportunity to travel up to 5% of the time.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the posting.

Schedule

Details about schedule are not specified in the posting.

Company Information

We are an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products. We’re looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Smithfield 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.

Contact Information

If you have questions about the application process, please contact us at 757-357-1595.