Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Summary

The Hershey Company Stuarts Draft is a Non-Union facility consisting of multiple Business Units: Reese, Pieces, Shapes, Processing, and Logistics in a high-speed complex environment. As a Production Supervisor, you will be responsible for directing and managing the activities of hourly production personnel to safely and effectively produce high quality product on your assigned production lines or work area within the plant.

Responsibilities

• Operational support; coaching and development of team members.
• Review, prioritization, and execution of daily operations.
• Staffing, maintaining time cards and attendance records.
• Supporting Hershey Lean Initiatives; ensure the area of responsibility supports all plant goals daily and weekly; reviewing results with teams, executing daily huddle communications.
• Cooking and maintaining daily interaction between the assigned area of responsibility and all other departments in the plant. This would include peers across shifts.
• Ensuring personnel have proper qualifications, are properly trained, and motivated to work productively both as part of a team and individually.
• Ensuring compliance with established standards and execution of procedures involving employee safety, food safety, food quality, sanitation, good manufacturing policies, housekeeping and other plant programs. Identify and implement opportunities for improvement. Promptly report food safety incidents to the appropriate QA staff and record occurrences of incidents.
• Ensuring compliance with administrative and reporting procedures while complying with overtime and seniority provisions of the handbook.
• Coordinating labor staffing on a daily basis in coherence with budgeted staffing. Document exceptions and pursue approval if cost justified. Champion, coordinate and implement opportunities for improvement.
• Documenting notification requests in SAP PM. Follow-up and prioritize with maintenance and other shifts. Identify, coordinate and implement opportunities for improvement.
• Inputting data into SAP, checking QA paperwork, and timekeeper information each shift. Analyzing information and following up on exceptions and opportunities. Identifying, coordinating and implementing opportunities for improvements and participating in budget/standards review process.
• Effectively and timely communicating appropriate information daily, weekly and monthly to all direct reports and peers by utilizing informal and formal communications – one on ones, huddles, meetings, postings, etc.
• Leading/coordination of preparation of communications for area/plant.
• Driving continuous improvement in the operation by fostering a continuous improvement mindset, elevating new ideas (both your own and those of your employees), and executing continuous improvement plans to positively impact the plant operations and goals.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong change management skills, driving and implementing change to optimize the business focusing on safety, quality and cost.
• Excellent people and leadership skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of production systems.
• Managerial ability (communication skills, delegation, motivation, etc.).
• Problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Knowledge of product quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to work with and relate to all levels of personnel.
• Ability to read/interpret production performance reports.
• Experience in manufacturing supervision.
• Cost accounting background (general understanding).
• General engineering understanding.
• SAP experience is preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite required.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing or in a high speed, complex environment required.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite required.
• Minimum of 1 year in a supervisory capacity preferred.
• Food manufacturing experience preferred.
• SAP experience preferred.