Manufacturing Supervisor

**MUST HAVE FOOD PROCESSING/MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE**

POSITION SUMMARY: The Processing Supervisor reports to the Production Manager and is based out of our Southern New Jersey location. This individual will be responsible for supervising processing hourly employees (Batchers, Assistant Batchers, Relief Batchers, and Press Operators). In addition, this individual will schedule and assign workloads; and maintain close rapport with production to identify, solve, and prevent problems affecting product quality and safety. Provide coaching, training, and guidance to develop a food safety culture within the processing department. Review and Revise Processing SOPs. Conduct HACCP monitoring, conducts processing facility inspections.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES (essential functions of the job) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide shift-focused supervision to the Processing Associates
• Have the ability to understand the blending processes as they relate to ingredients, weights, mixing, process flow, and the analytical checks to go along with it.
• Communicate with Processing associates to ensure understanding of the day's production schedule, key issues, and challenges
• Complete ingredient and raw material inventory
• Provide supervision to the production of products during their shift assuring the implementation and monitoring of good manufacturing practices, quality, and safety standards
• Identifies problems or bottlenecks in processing processes and resolves issues
• Assure daily documentation, analysis, and trending of data regarding batching, ingredient waste, processing maintenance issues, processing safety issues, employee issues, and any other incidents.
• Assure the implementation of all identified food quality and food safety standards, laws, good manufacturing practices, training and continuous improvement
• Ensures processing resources including materials, equipment, and people resources are available as needed to maintain production schedules
• Identify and document the skills, performance opportunities, learning needs, time, and attendance of each processing associate and teach routinely
• Assure all associates are consistently trained in all required standards and expectations, including temporary employees
• Keep the work environment clean, safe, and positive
• Manage processing performance against plant goals in safety, quality, cost, and waste
• Work with the management team to develop safe work practices and implement them for effective safety that results in zero recordable and lost time accidents and encourage safe work performance
• Exudes a high degree of interpersonal skills and has the ability to work well with everyone
• Assure fair and consistent application of policies, procedures, and discipline
• Follows and enforces standards for food safety and food quality production reflected in SQF as well as the regulations of major vendors and governmental agencies such as OSHA, FDA, and EPA and assures associates are consistently trained in these standards and comply with all requirements
• Adhere to and promote a culture of food safety and quality
• This role will be required to taste test products as needed, up to a couple of ounces per test.
• All other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage 4-10 employees
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe, secure, and legal work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Communicates job expectations; planning, monitoring, and assessing job results; coaching, and counseling employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, procedures, and productivity standards.
• Establishes strategic goals; identifies and evaluates trends; chooses a course of action; defines objectives; evaluates outcomes.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be detail-oriented and can multi-task
• Must have excellent time management skills

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Associate's Degree in Production or Engineering or a related field or equivalent work experience
• Five years of production manufacturing experience required; food manufacturing preferred
• Three years supervisory experience in a food manufacturing environment
• Supervisory experience in a union environment is a plus
• Working knowledge of batching and CIP equipment and systems
• Working knowledge of food safety and food quality standards and regulations such as SQF and environmental and safety regulations
• Competency in English language (read, write, speak); excellent written, oral, and listening skills.
• Knowledge of regulations of major vendors and governmental agencies such as FDA, OSHA, and EPA
• Requires basic mathematical skills to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide combined with analytical skills used to track and trend data and be able to use that data to guide decisions and communications with associates
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional teams
• Ability to effectively present information to top management
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions