Production Supervisor

About the Company

AMPI owns six Midwest-based manufacturing plants where 10 percent of the nation's American-type cheese, processed cheese, and butter is produced. The cooperative's award-winning cheese and powdered dairy products are marketed to foodservice, retail, and food ingredient customers. In 2019, the co-op launched its Dinner Bell Creamery brand and accompanying Co-op Crafted promise, highlighting more than 50 years of dairy farm families partnering with skilled Cheesemakers.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and support production operations and employees.
• Work jointly with maintenance to identify equipment issues, establish day-to-day operational priorities, improve machine efficiency, and manage the priority and completion of work on shift.
• Facilitate production expectations with plant personnel, ensuring goals are met on a daily and monthly basis.
• Ensure processing equipment setups are completed in the required timeframe to meet department expectations and productivity.
• Establish training procedures and processes that improve job knowledge, including cross-training.
• Provide daily updates to department managers.
• Build strong working relationships with plant personnel, providing leadership, teaching, and effective communication methods to ensure enforcement of company policies and procedures.
• Understand software controls, including addressing system performance issues and training.
• Establish a "zero injury" safety culture and motivate employees to follow safety policies and procedures.
• Participate in the annual management review of the Food Safety and Quality system.
• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner by gathering and analyzing information skillfully.
• Work well in group problem-solving situations and develop alternative solutions.
• Create a positive team environment with the ability to build morale and group commitments to meet goals and objectives.
• Manage projects by creating workable plans, communicating changes effectively, building commitments, and overcoming resistance.
• Develop realistic action plans by prioritizing and planning work activities, including planning for additional resources as needed.
• Include team members in planning, decision-making, facilitating, and process improvement.
• Report employee safety, food safety, and food quality issues to personnel of authority (heightened responsibility in these areas).