Job Description

Summary and Objective:

As a member of the Production Management team, the Production Supervisor is responsible for training, supervision, and oversight of production team members while ensuring all production processes follow safety, quality, and efficiency standards. This position will also be responsible for collaborating with all functional areas within the business to drive continuous improvement to achieve key KPIs, best organize workflows and analyze the efficiency of manufacturing processes.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage, oversee the team responsible for production processes, including oversight of the daily workflow, scheduling, responsibility alignment, and completion of assignments to meet production output.
• Leading team and facilitating the organization’s strategy for cultivating a fully engaged workforce through training, engagement, motivating, and contributing to team effort.
• Provides performance oversight, safety monitoring, and constructive and timely performance feedback.
• Develops production plans and procedures while driving production performance by establishing daily, weekly, and monthly goals, to ensure that internal and external customer needs are met.
• Maintains knowledge of processes and equipment, troubleshoots issues that arise, notifies the maintenance department of equipment problems, and ensures that employees comply with applicable safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Regularly performs verification of production output, quality, volume, and efficiencies according to specifications while preparing analysis for management as needed.
• Create policies or procedures for production activities while identifying issues and opportunities for improvements, while partnering with related functional areas to develop new strategies to streamline processes and reduce cost by maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of product movement between manufacturing, warehousing, and ultimately, customer delivery.
• Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
• Ensures all required paperwork is completed and signed correctly.
• Ensures that employees comply with applicable safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains a safe and clean work environment while ensuring quality, quantity, customer satisfaction, and financial commitments are met.
• Participates and owns a portion of recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working in a production or warehouse environment, food production preferred
• 3+ years working with machine controls and/or mechanical troubleshooting.
• 2+ years of supervising/managing a production team
• Proven success with high-speed production machinery and monitoring product quality.
• Experience leading teams, preferably in a start-up environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Personal Characteristics:

• Excellent supervisory and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical, oral, and written communication skills.
• Thorough understanding of or the ability to quickly learn production operations and machinery.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Must be extremely organized, detail-oriented, able to multitask, and prioritize multiple projects/tasks.
• Ability to communicate clearly, professionally, and effectively
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of Food safety and sanitation protocols and procedures
• Ability to work under pressure and make effective decisions
• Ability and willingness to work in a team environment as well as with limited supervision
• Commitment to complete work within established time parameters and within budget , while flexible enough to meet special project deadlines as required
• As needed, must be able to work all shifts, weekends, holidays as required, and all other times as needed or assigned on the production schedule.
• Bilingual – Spanish/English is a plus.
• Food manufacturing processing experience is a plus

All Employee Responsibilities:

• Participates in a productive and supportive work environment by cooperating with all team members throughout the office and production departments.
• Address and/or escalates to the appropriate parties of any failures to comply with financial controls. Works to continuously develop and improve performance of job duties and contributions to the organization.
• Performs job duties and other related duties for the organization as assigned.
• Must have reliable transportation and the ability to travel. If driving on behalf of Muenster Milling, employees must have a valid state driver’s license and provide current proof of liability insurance.

Food Safety & Quality Responsibilities:

• Follow the proper hand-washing, sanitization, cleanliness, dress, and grooming requirements.
• Adhere to SQF, FSMA, Sanitation, GMP’s and HACCP requirements.
• Follow the Company’s procedures and processes for food safety and worker safety.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will regularly work within a plant environment. The work requires the ability to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, and talk and listen. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud in the plant.

Work Location / Travel:

The position is based FT in an assigned manufacturing facility with the ability to travel to other locations in TX, as needed.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This document describes the current position. It is not an employment contract. Our Company reserves the right to modify Position duties or Position descriptions at its discretion.

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