Manufacturing Production Supervisor

Manufacturing Production Supervisor

Organization Name: Buffalo Rock Company

Website: https://www.buffalorock.com/careers/ 

Job Department: COR Production

Reports to: Manufacturing Plant Superintendent

Work Schedule: 12-hour shifts

Job Type: Regular

FLSA Status: Exempt (fluctuating work week pay plan)

Amount of Travel Required: N/A 

Job Description 

Summary/objective

Buffalo Rock is an award-winning Pepsi and Keurig Dr Pepper bottler founded in Birmingham, AL more than 123 years ago. Buffalo Rock manages the best beverage portfolio in the country, which includes several beloved global and regional brands. The Manufacturing Production Supervisor is a key member of the Corporate Manufacturing Team responsible for exercising independent judgment and discretion in managing the production lines for which he or she is charged with, and in supervising the employees working on those production lines or otherwise under his or her supervision.

Essential functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Direct the work of employees assigning tasks and positions as necessary.
• Ensure that the employees perform their jobs properly and as safely as possible.
• Evaluate employees and provide input as to whether they should be retained in or advanced from the labor pool or production positions or should be removed from positions to which they had been promoted.
• Correct employees as necessary, initiate discipline, initiate work performance and conduct-related corrective actions and recommend suspensions and terminations as necessary.
• Deal with employee concerns and complaints and refer them to upper management or other resources when appropriate.
• Assure that the attire of the employees is in line with company policy.
• Gather information before the start of the shift from the previous shift supervisors and plant superintendent on production schedule status and if there are any raw material or machine issues/problems as well as communicate such information to the incoming supervisors and plant superintendent of the next shift.
• Check emails at the beginning and end of every shift.