Dark Meat Superintendent (2nd Shift)

Job Title: Dark Meat Superintendent 2nd Processing  
Department: Production / Operations 
Reports To: Processing Manager 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Liberty Plant  
Work Arrangement: On-site 
Shift / Schedule: 2nd shift 
Travel Requirements: None 
Employment Type: Full-time 

Role Overview / Purpose and Scope 

The Poultry Processing Superintendent, Manual Debone Cone Lines is responsible for leading the daily operations of the manual debone cone line area within the poultry processing plant. This role oversees production supervisors and team members to ensure people, processes, and resources are aligned to meet established goals for safety, quality, food safety, operational efficiency, yield, labor utilization, and production flow. 

The Superintendent plays a key leadership role in driving department performance, maintaining positive department culture, supporting retention, and developing supervisors and team members. This position is also responsible for monitoring key metrics, identifying trends and opportunities, supporting continuous improvement, and completing accurate operational data reporting for the department. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead daily operations for the manual debone cone lines, ensuring production plans are executed safely, efficiently, and accurately. 

• Directly supervise, coach, and develop department supervisors and support their leadership of production team members. 

• Monitor department performance against key metrics including yield, operational efficiency, labor utilization, throughput, quality, safety, retention, and other assigned measures. 

• Drive continuous improvement efforts to reduce waste, improve yield, increase efficiency, and strengthen production flow across the cone line area. 

• Partner with supervisors to ensure proper staffing, line assignments, rotation, training, and coverage based on production needs. 

• Ensure product quality, trim standards, food safety requirements, packaging specifications, and customer expectations are consistently met. 

• Identify trends, defects, downtime causes, or process deviations and implement timely corrective actions. 

• Support and enforce all company policies, safety rules, GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP requirements, sanitation expectations, and USDA regulatory standards. 

• Maintain a positive, respectful, and accountable department of culture that supports engagement, communication, teamwork, and retention. 

• Partner with Human Resources and plant leadership on attendance, performance management, corrective action, retention, and employee relations matters. 

• Ensure supervisors and team mem