Supervisor - Manufacturing

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure team compliance with all safety policies
• Maintain product quality and sanitation standards
• Optimize operational efficiencies to support blending and production
• Track operational output measures (efficiency, yield loss, product quality, inventory accuracy, transactional accuracy)
• Anticipate and correct trends which would compromise achievement of financial targets
• Develop team to solve day-to-day operational issues and reach short- and long-term performance goals
• Deliver effective change leadership to drive business changes while minimizing people impact
• Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues
• Motivate team members to achieve plan goals
• Incorporate Productivity, Yield Loss, TPM Continuous Improvement, and Innovation initiatives into Manufacturing strategic plan
• Demonstrate ability to trend and use data to identify root causes and determine countermeasures
• Build people capability through effective employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for frontline hourly personnel
• Develop training and organization capability assessments to support business initiatives
• Support cross-functional strategic plans as needed through implementation and execution
• Regular presence on the plant floor
• Administer policies and procedures
• Tackle ambiguous problems to determine and prioritize business strategies
• Structure and prioritize tasks, and focus efforts in an ambiguous work environment
• Implement short and long term strategies to support organizational operation and transformation
• Drive and participate in productivity, waste reduction, and cost savings initiatives

Requirements

• 3-5 years supervising in food and beverage manufacturing
• This role requires off-shift and/or weekend work
• This role requires lifting up to 50 lbs occasionally
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, supply chain, or similar field
• Experience developing/coaching hourly staff preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite applications
• Experience giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Experience planning and leading strategic initiatives
• Excellent communicator in written and verbal form
• Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity
• Experience in Continuous Improvement
• Experience in analyzing and trending data to identify root causes
• Must have permanent, unrestricted U.S. work authorization (citizen, green card, or unrestricted EAD)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, company provided life, STD and LTD insurance
• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, and critical illness coverages
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions