Production Supervisor, 3rd shift

 Title:  Production Supervisor, 3rd shift, 3rd Shift   Req ID: 5964

City, State:  Irving, TX

Reports to:  Plant Manager 

Classification:  Exempt 

 

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Summary: The Production Supervisor is responsible for the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality product, consistently high yields, and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" approach, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (e.g. other Production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.
 

Essential Functions:
 

• Use effective supervision, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet/exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.  
   
• Ensure compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF.
   
• Coordinates and guides team through production situations e.g. startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.
   
• Facilitates the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments. Identifies areas for individual/team development.
   
• Improves quality, yields and throughput on their designated line.

 

 

Required Qualifications:  
 

• Demonstrated three years supervisory or leadership skills with a food-processing or manufacturing company leading a production team OR a bachelor’s degree with a prior Food Science or Poultry Science (or closely related) internship.
   
• Demonstrated production knowledge.
   
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations. 
   
• Proven time-management and organizational/office skills including competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.

 

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• Poultry facility experience
• Supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Water Jet Cutting, Further Processing experience preferred)
• Experience with SAP or Infinity
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred

• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

 

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will supervise the production team members at the Irving facility.

 

Work Environment:  Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment. 

 

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

 

Position Type: This is an exempt position. The shift varies: first, second, third or floater.  Some Saturday work required. 

 

Travel: Travel is not required.  

 

Other Duties: Please note thi