Lead Production Supervisor

 

 

A Day in the Life:

Responsible for the safe and efficient day-to-day Crush operations department.  Support the Manager of Production Operations in monitoring and improving plant productivity. 

 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Cultivate a safety culture where unsafe acts are not tolerated, and employees and management have a common goal of zero injuries.
• Oversee assigned department production shift activities (crush, refinery, milling, packaging, warehouse, boiler house, and/or elevator) to ensure operations are running at the highest levels of efficiency. 
• Ensure assigned department is compliant with sanitation requirements.  May provide support in the monthly sanitation inspections and implementation of any corrective actions as necessary.
• Track and report shift productivity improvements.
• Approve daily reports and KPRs for the assigned department. 
• Report and trouble shoot operations issues.
• Provide input to the Manager of Production Operations and/or Plant Manager to plan annual shutdowns.
• Support Process Safety Management programs, where applicable
• Work with the Safety/Environmental Manager to ensure compliance of assigned shift in all aspects.
• Help develop and drive Operations Excellence Plans to meet safety, quality and production goals and show continuous improvement in assigned department.
• Support the continuous improvement activities and act as a change agent for any changes that occur in the assigned department.
• Monitor KPR’s and help develop plans to bring assigned department in line with Operations Excellence goals.
• Participate in the daily production meetings to remain informed and ensure that the assigned department operations activities are aligned.
• Participate in new employee selection process.
• Participate in personnel investigations and recommend corrective actions as necessary.
• Demonstrate the following core values and guiding behaviors which are expected of all employees at Bunge North America: Integrity, Openness and Trust, Teamwork, Citizenship, and Entrepreneurship.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience (or equivalent combination of education and years of experience) in soybean crushing, oil refining, milling, oil packaging operations, or related and applicable activities.
• High School graduate or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field is preferred.
• Proficiency with basic computer skills, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word, and other technical software packages, as needed.
• Ability to work odd hours, weekends and rotating shift schedule required.
• Work Schedule:  12-hour rotating shift (48-hour