Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift Compounding (10:00pm-6:00am)

About the role

The Production Supervisor oversees the day-to-day activities of liquid products operations to meet GSF objectives and achieve a high level of customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the daily activities of assigned staff, providing instructions and performance feedback to ensure that productivity and quality objectives are met or exceeded.
• Identifies and resolves process and equipment problems, using available resources to maintain productivity and quality.
• Implements approaches to improve quality and productivity by developing new ideas, improving processes, and planning for upcoming equipment or process changes.
• Routinely informs and communicates with employees to promote smooth operations, enhance their understanding of GSF policies and objectives, and to ensure compliance with established production policies and procedures.
• Drive Daily Management Systems to deliver improved results every shift, every day.
• Own the Incident Elimination, Clean Inspect Lube (CIL) management, and Defect Handling DMS's.
• Ensure any safety / quality / food safety behavior & condition issues are resolved quickly.
• Own the scorecard, gap analysis, & action planning processes for the line.
• Drive effective operational reviews (shift hand-off, shiftly ops review, daily ops review).
• Eliminate barriers for the line teams to achieve results and enroll support groups when necessary.
• Responsible for administration of people management systems (staffing, training, etc).
• Communication - ensure the teams are receiving the right information.
• Drive Continuous Improvement of systems and results.
• Successful delivery of initiatives.
• Develop individual capability in Operator Driven Reliability (ODR) standard work processes.
• Using problem solving skills and root cause analysis to resolve and/or mitigate operational issues.
• Performs other related and assigned duties as necessary.
• Leads up to 50 mostly hourly employees.
• Tour Leadership (Coaching team on standards execution).
• Coach the teams on keeping the line at base condition.
• Department level system ownership (could also own a site level system).
• Be a coach for the teams on the use of GPS (IWS) tools to solve problems (Why Why, Basic Problem Solving, etc.).
• Escalate issues that need further attention properly.
• Demonstrate the GSF Creed and Values.
• Productivity/quality standards: accuracy, timeliness, thoroughness.
• Productivity/quality standards: production and process efficiency and quality.
• Productivity/quality standards: continuous product/process improvement.
• Attendance and punctuality.
• Budget.
• Cost containment.
• Teamwork within the department and across departments.
• Project/assignment standards.
• Customer satisfaction.
• Vendor relations.
• Safety standards and procedures: employees.

Requirements

• Experience sufficient: 2 years of relevant work experience in a food-manufacturing environment with lead or supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of Food safety concepts and techniques.
• Budgetary concepts and procedures.
• Engineering concepts and procedures.
• PC word processing/spreadsheet software.
• Quality concepts and procedures.
• Skill and ability to supervise and motivate employees in a team-based environment.
• Identify problems or irregularities for early resolution.
• Communicate and coordinate effectively with employees verbally and in writing.
• Communicate and coordinate effectively with internal and external customers.