Production Supervisor (Sikhiu district, Nakorn Ratchasima province)

Production Supervisor

Location: Sikhiu plant   

Reports to: Production Manager    

Direct reports: Production Foreman – Starch and Sweetener, Leader Flash Dry

Workplace type: On-site                  

Company Background:

Ingredion is a global Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that touch millions of lives, every day. With over 19,000 customers in 120 countries, we create solutions that help nourish, comfort, and delight people all over the world. We are proud to source our strength from nature.  

That’s why we’re growing sustainably, with an industry-leading product portfolio that includes plant-based proteins, sugar alternatives and clean and simple ingredients that deliver on changing consumer needs while protecting our planet. Although we are best known for our food ingredients, we are much more than a food business.

We co-create bespoke solutions with our customers; from cosmetics and beauty to paper and textiles, to pharmaceuticals, driven by relentless curiosity. We make it our business to anticipate industry trends, and to bring together the potential of people, nature and technology to make life better.

We don’t just make ingredients. We create possibilities. Be What’s Next® with us.

Production Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the day-to-day operation to meet the production schedule, customer requirement, complying to quality, safety, environmental, health and regulations. 

Production Supervisor will mainly focus on production process, planning and overall operations of other functions and coordinate with relate departments such as QA, Maintenance, EHS, Supply chain, Engineering either internal or external to make sure all operations must keep in high performance and effectively.

Core Responsibilities: (list in order of critical deliverables)

• Quality awareness – Strongly focus and maintain the quality standard as first priority and could provide the solution for production staff. Cooperative with implementing Food Quality and Safety Management systems such as FSSC 2200, GHPs, HACCP, HALAL, KOCHER, ISO9001, ISO14001, NON-GMO and others according to company policy.
• Process control – Take full responsibility in terms of staff management, technically processing line is a must, quality targets management and to ensure the smooth running of production processes. Maintain high housekeeping standards to ensure a clean, tidy, hygiene and always ready for customer visit on the time.  
• Product Costing – Ensure the supplies and packaging costs must control well on plan. Planning and control the direct / indirect parts day-to-day / and align with monthly target consumption.
• Teamwork – Strengthen and maintain effectively co-ordinate with relate department such as QA, Maintenance, Warehouse, Engineering, IPS, Supply chain and etc.
• Process improvement   – Play a key leading role in making decisions, problem solving and troubleshooting within the shift to ensure that all team members can identify root causes and take prompt effective action to resolve the problems base on IPS implementation. Coordinate with other departments to support shift activities smoothly.
• Data Analysis – Responsible for reporting the potential or the risk that might impact safety of workers or working environment or food safety food safety management systems to upper ordinates or identified persons. Coordinate to analysis root causes, set up corrective/ preventive actions and summarize report.

Qualified candidates will have:

Mandatory requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and/or related fields in chemical-based Production department.
• Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience in chemical-based manufacturing, direct experience in modified starch, sweetener or food manufacturing will be advantage.
• Good computer literacy.
• Be able to work independently or with supervision.
• English fluency, both written and spoken.

Desirable requirements:

• Business acumen; be able to identify best options in terms of cost & benefit to the company.
• Strong data management skills, continuous improvement and problem solving.
• Strong EHS compliance and thorough understanding of quality management.
• Strong production knowledge with experience in production management.
• Strong people management and team work motivation with good communication skills.
• Ambiguity: be able to make decisions though information limited.
• Interpersonal skills; be able to make strong relationships with relate departments.
• Flexibility in work schedule.
• Outstanding leadership capability with the ability to effecti