Supervisor Production, Pouch Packaging Night Shift

Essential Position Responsibilities

• Leads a team of front-line employees.
• Effectively communicates with and motivates employees in order to drive productivity and achieve company goals.
• Supervises employees to maintain discipline, teamwork, and safety so that daily production requirements are met.
• Schedules, tracks attendance, and reviews and approves time off for their direct reports.
• Manages and utilizes various production reports.
• Evaluates materials and products to maintain organizational standards.
• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate activities between departments.
• Reviews daily production against customer requirements.
• Interprets, understands, and manages reports within responsible area such as throughput, yield, etc.
• Maintains inventory records.
• Requisitions ingredients and/or supplies as necessary to meet delivery schedules.
• Meets production requirements while maintaining appropriate line speeds and efficiency ensuring quality products.
• Accomplishes all paperwork in accordance with established time frames or record keeping requirements.
• Emphasizes a safe work environment.
• Manages employees. Directs and supervises employees’ work activities and monitors work performance.
• Administers disciplinary actions and recommends performance improvement actions in collaboration with the HR Manager.
• Makes recommendations for compensation decisions based on guidelines.
• Follows Simmons values to develop and maintain a favorable working relationship with all employees.
• Participates as a member of the Team. Participates in the ongoing development, communication and implementation of team concepts, programs and policies; coordinates work to ensure best practices with all team members.
• Attends appropriate team meetings.
• Accepts responsibility to quickly identify any areas that lack cohesiveness, bringing them to the attention of the team leader and working with the team in a supportive manner to resolve issues and actively look for ways, and reinforce actions needed, to achieve synergy possible within the larger organization.

Simmons Operating Systems Principles and Objectives

• Familiar with Simmons’ established operating systems (e.g. quality, security, office environment, company policies, LEAN).
• Understands the responsibility to maintain familiarity with the systems and this position’s role in support of these systems - including a consideration of the impact of individual actions on the systems and the responsibility to communicate concerns and improvement ideas.

Physical Activities

• Enters and locates information on a computer.
• Visually verifies information, often in small print.
• Communicates with Customers, Vendors, or Employees via telephone, in person, and/or electronic mail.
• May present information to small or large groups.
• Must be able to work in various temperatures.
• Move about in a manufacturing environment and surrounding property.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• As required by facility.

Travel

• May travel to other local facilities.

Technical Experience

• Willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction required.
• Must be able to read and write English.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resource management, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Must be familiar with computers and be proficient in Microsoft Office suite.

Industry Experience

• Preferred experience within a food processing organization.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years related work experience with a minimum of 1 year experience in a leading role included in the 4 years related work experience.