Production Supervisor

Job Description

The Production Supervisor at Novolex is a key member of the plant leadership team responsible for overseeing manufacturing operations, ensuring compliance, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Leads, assists, motivates, and evaluates shift employees in daily operations and problem resolution, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Promotes and trains on consistent and proactive safety, including compliance audits, incident reports, and investigations.
• Ensures quality specifications are met and procedures are followed, trains team on proper company procedures, focusing on safety, quality, and meeting production goals.
• Collaborates with HR for payroll processing, personnel or labor issues, and staffing; cross-functional teamwork with peers.
• Manages shifts to attain production and scrap goals; troubleshoots and resolves processes, equipment, and material issues with support.
• Interprets work orders and specifications to shift employees, as necessary; leads or supports efforts to determine root cause and develop corrective actions.
• Studies and understands production schedule and deploys available labor and other resources, as required; audits product quality and ensures specifications are met and quality procedures followed.
• Actively engages with and recommends measures to improve safety, production methods, equipment performance, product quality, and waste reduction; initiates or suggests plans to motivate employees to achieve work goals.
• Ensures accuracy and finalizes production paperwork, including production reports, work order documentation, safety and sanitation documents, quality records, finished goods tickets, etc.
• Maintains shift production staffing levels; analyzes production losses and determines corrective action.
• Drives SQF (Safe Quality Foods) culture and ensures GMPs are followed; performs SQF audits and coaches employees on proper GMP protocols and procedures.
• Complies with established plant rules and procedures that promote compliance with customer service-related activities, including following run-order specifications for each product, pre-requisite programs in compliance with SQF Code, Manufacture of Food Packaging, and food safety requirements, and Good Manufacturing Practices in compliance with all Food Safety Requirements.
• Maintains safety, quality, production, waste, and housekeeping goals set forth by management; meets and strives to exceed these goals.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Associate's or Bachelor's Degree in Business, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Engineering, or a related field is preferred
• Minimum five (5) years of manufacturing experience
• Minimum three (3) years of leadership or supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Experience leading teams in a fast-paced production environment
• Preferred qualifications include Lean Manufacturing training or certification, Six Sigma certification, experience in food packaging or regulated manufacturing environments, and experience working in SQF-certified facilities.

Physical Requirements

• Stand and walk for extended periods
• Move throughout a manufacturing facility
• Climb stairs and access production equipment
• Occasionally lift and carry up to 25 pounds
• Bend, kneel, stoop, reach, push, and pull
• Work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to moving equipment, noise, and varying temperatures

Company Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental, and vision insurance
• A variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical, and financial health
• Community Engagement: Support for organizations promoting sustainability initiatives or addressing food and hunger needs; encouragement of facility-level support for community activities
• Training and Development: Opportunities for advancement through skills development, formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization