Senior Production Supervisor

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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PURPOSE:

The Senior Supervisor role–is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing all aspects of daily operations in Big Flats. This role ensures the safe, efficient, and high-quality production of food products while maintaining compliance with company policies, food safety standards, and regulatory requirements. The superintendent provide direction to supervisors and support across production, quality, safety, maintenance, warehouse, and personnel management.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITEIS AND DELIVERABLES:

• Promote a positive team environment, including efforts to continuously improve teamwork and communication

• Contribute to establishing standard work, processes and improvements and ensure they’re communicated across the production teams

• Provide strategic oversight and leadership for day shift operations, ensuring alignment across production, quality assurance, maintenance, and sanitation teams.

• Foster a high-performance culture through proactive coaching, performance management, and effective conflict resolution, while driving operational excellence and team engagement.

• Oversee the training and performance development framework for the Production Supervisors, ensuring all personnel are properly equipped with the knowledge and skills required for their roles.

• Oversee compliance with established protocols and standards , and ensure consistent execution through effective supervision and accountability measures

• Create and Support standardizing processes and tasks for supervisors and operators across all shifts

• Lead and coordinate all production activities to safely meet daily production targets, quality standards, and delivery schedules.

• Responsible for coordinating activities, tasks, and deliverables between shifts and departments

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, quality, efficiency, and reduce waste,.

• Support and manage supervisor development and training opportunities

• Support and lead department objectives, initiatives, and deliverables across all teams

• Support safety and quality initiatives, objectives, and deliverables across all teams

• Directs the flow of materials to assigned areas to maintain a smooth flow of work

• Manage team time off requests

• Provide strategic oversight to ensure timely resolution of employee concerns, facilitating appropriate escalation to Human Resources or the Operations Manager as needed. Partner with HR to address employee relations matters and guide frontline leadership in the consistent application of disciplinary protocols, fostering a culture of accountability and professional development.

• Regularly walk the production floor throughout each shift, ensure safety and quality requirements are being met.

• Promote safety throughout the assigned area where the crew is working

• Follow all plant safety and GMP rules and regulations

• Ability to read and understand required paperwork, and ensure operators are completing required paperwork properly

• Assist where needed/required in all food safety and quality issues or programs

• Ensures all quantitative and qualitative measures in the operating plan are met, including those related to Line Efficiencies, Losses, Health & Safety and compliance with GMPs and Food Safety/Quality

• Responsible for food safety and quality as well as reporting food safety