Production Supervisor, 3rd Shift Weekends

About the role

The Weekend Production Supervisor is responsible for leading and coordinating production operations during the weekend 3rd shift in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. This position oversees up to 5 Production Leads directly and approximately 50 production employees indirectly, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant operations while meeting customer, quality, food safety, and production requirements. The Production Supervisor is responsible for driving operational performance, employee engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement while maintaining compliance with company policies, GMPs, food safety programs, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise and develop up to five Production Leads.
• Indirectly oversee up to 50 hourly production employees across assigned production areas.
• Establish clear expectations and hold team members accountable for safety, quality, attendance, productivity, and workplace behaviors.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and development opportunities to Leads and production employees.
• Conduct routine floor presence and employee engagement activities to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Assist with employee recognition, retention initiatives, and workforce development efforts.
• Support employee onboarding and training initiatives for new hires.
• Coordinate production activities to ensure customer orders are produced safely, efficiently, and accurately.
• Monitor production schedules and staffing levels to meet daily production targets.
• Drive attainment of key performance indicators including safety, quality, productivity, waste reduction, and labor utilization.
• Ensure proper line staffing and effective allocation of labor resources.
• Troubleshoot operational issues and partner with maintenance, quality, sanitation, and warehouse teams to minimize downtime.
• Communicate production performance, challenges, and priorities during shift turnover meetings.
• Ensure compliance with all GMP, HACCP, SQF, USDA, FDA, customer, and company food safety requirements.
• Promote a food safety culture by identifying and correcting deficiencies in real time.
• Verify adherence to quality standards, product specifications, and sanitation requirements.
• Participate in internal, customer, and regulatory audits as needed.
• Partner with Quality Assurance to investigate and resolve product quality concerns.
• Maintain a safe work environment and ensure compliance with all safety policies and procedures.
• Conduct safety observations, inspections, and incident investigations.
• Address unsafe behaviors and conditions promptly.
• Participate in corrective action and root cause analysis activities following incidents.
• Ensure compliance with company