Production Supervisor

Nutrient Survival Job Description

Production Supervisor

Industry

Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Fulfillment

Employment Type

Full-time, on-site

Shift

Day shift

Schedule: Monday through Friday Operational hours are 6 AM to 5:30 PM

Position: Exempt

Company Description: Nutrient Survival provides high-quality performance nutrition food and drinks made with real ingredients and powerful nutrition for Americans to stay healthy, strong, and alert. Our Special Ops grade nutrition is perfect for today's challenges and everything ahead. We are a team of passionate individuals committed to making a difference in the world. We are headquartered in a 100,000 sq. ft. facility with our offices, test kitchens, ovens, food prep equipment, freeze-drier, packaging and shipping, all in one place. Here, we stay focused on quality and consistency in every batch, almost making food personally upon order.

Job Summary: The Production Supervisor will oversee and is responsible for the day-to-day manufacturing operations. Responsible to achieve people safety, food safety, quality, customer service, productivity, efficiency, cost, goals, and objectives both through individual and team contributions.  Providing direction, leadership, development, and support to direct reports through empowerment, teamwork, on the job assignments, and continuous improvement initiatives.  The Production Supervisor will engage operators in decision making while fostering a learning environment requiring personal accountability.  A key deliverable is defining and demonstrating daily the need for continuous improvement and change necessary to deliver the business results through the pursuit of best practices and deployment of standard work.  Supporting, implementing, and maintaining food safety and quality practices as required ensuring Good Manufacturing Practices are followed defined by Nutrient Survival.

Duties and Responsibilities:

As a Production Supervisor, You Will

·        Make a meaningful impact by encouraging a steady pace, monitoring attainment, communicating with all levels of the organization, managing assigned team’s performance, ensuring development, professional customer service and partnerships, excelling in a problem solving start up environment, and enjoying continuous improvement initiative as a lifelong learner

A week in the life of a Production Supervisor:

1.                 Advance initiatives promoting employee understanding and inspiring engagement with all areas of health, safety, security, and welfare of assigned employees

2.                 Maintain a clean environment, which is orderly, safe, and a complaint facility

3.                 Create, update, implement, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

4.                 Responsible, initiative-taking, trustworthy by accepting pride in areas of ownership for project management resulting in progress and success

5.                 Assess strategies and adjust capabilities of employees, equipment, facilities, performance, procedures, and systems to enhance continuous improvement for production, and profitability

6.                 Conduct root cause analysis five why and implements corrective action to reduce ongoing safety occurrences year over year

7.                 Establish a 5S compliant workspace environment

8.                 Ensure all employees follow GMP’s to support production for the highest quality product

9.                 Effective coordination, development, training, management, and motivation of employees

10.             Responsible for supervision and execution in accordance with laws, policy, and procedures in the following areas: interviewing, selection, onboarding, training, assigning work, managing performance including plans and reviews, coaching and corrective action, addressing and resolving situations

11.             Meets with employees one on one to develop and maintain trust, provide feedback, coaching and hold performance discussions

12.             Performs compliance and safety inspections on a routine basis

13.             Recommend KPI’s at the operational level to create performance metrics to further enhance operational excellence

14.             Coordinate with and between Compound Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, Operations Supervisor, Procurement Manager, Research and Development Lead, Warehouse Supervisor to perform the lifecycle of operations for product development and implementation into production

15.             Conducts inspections of work areas determining scope of work for assignments and materials needed

16.             Supports team with daily production scheduling and assisting where needed to ensure demand and delivery of orders is continuously met

17.             Determines individual performance metrics, defining time to accomplish assigned work in a safe and efficient manner

18.             Enter data and complete documentation and fully utilize systems to create efficiencies and eliminate redundancy

19.             Support in transitioning and validation of systems

20.             Assist with the development for a one the job training program, monitor, train, and track

21.             Continuous improvement

22.             Coordinates maintenance activities with the production schedules for preventative maintenance and repairs ensuring production demand is met

23.             Conducts cycle counts, manages, verifies, and reconciles in system to ensure accurate inventory

24.             Ensures ingredients, supplies, labels, overall inventory is available and accessible each day at start of shift to create efficiency and reduce lost work time year over year

25.             Coordinates ordering and daily prep work is assigned, communicated and partner with teams

26.             Hold meetings with teams to train on process, safety, quality, review production plans, outline goals and objectives for continuously meeting demand and accomplish on time delivery

27.             Perform other duties as assigned

Requirement and Competencies:

•         Knowledge of health and safety regulations, and standards

•         Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices, food safety, sanitation i.e., HACCP, AIB, and or SQF

•         Knowledge of Food Safety

•         Excellent skills in communication and interpersonal relationships

•         Proficient skills in Microsoft Office, Excel, and Warehouse Management Systems i.e., Microsoft Dynamics

•         Proficient skills with data entry and inventory software and systems

•         Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities

•         Proven leadership and team management skills

•         Excellent communication skills

•         Skills in changing and dynamic environments

•         Ability to review forecast data to develop resource plans to effectively meet established weekly production, training, master sanitation, and preventive maintenance schedules

•         Ability to lift and move heavy objects

•         Ability to anticipate and solve problems

•         Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and meet tight deadlines

•         Ability to read and understand reporting data and how it relates to optimal performance for directives

•         Ability to interface with all levels of the organization including executive leadership

•         Ability to work as part of a team

•         Ability to stand, walk, reach, twist, bend, stoop, squat, lift, climb, carry, push, and pull 50 pounds for the entire shifts which are currently 10 hours

•         Ability to live PACK values

Education and Experience:

High school diploma or equivalent

Associates degree in Business Administration or similar discipline required; bachelor’s degree preferred

Five - 7 years of related experience preferably in the Food Manufacturing Industry

Combination of education and related experience equivalent will be evaluated year for year

Forklift Certified and ability to train/certify staff on PIT equipment