3rd Shift Production Supervisor

AAK; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Pet insurance

Job summary

AAK Louisville seeks a Production Supervisor to coordinate K2 Processing, Refinery, Bleaching, RX, Hydro, L1, FOL and inventory, ensuring safety, schedule adherence, and efficient operations. You will train staff, track product rates, and enforce SOPs to deliver high-quality outputs.

The role emphasizes safety leadership, staffing optimization, and cost-conscious production with a focus on cross-training and continuous improvement. Join a historic plant with global reach.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and basic computer skills.
• Clear communication, training ability, and mechanical aptitude expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safety effort by personal example.
• Support plant-wide safety compliance to achieve 0 accidents.
• Assist contractors during major construction or maintenance.
• Identify high-risk safety/productivity issues and remedy them.
• Adhere to SOPs to ensure product quality and consistency for customers.
• Provide tools, materials, and information needed for packaging.
• Enforce GMP compliance.
• Report environmental issues to supervisor and EHS manager for immediate correction.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Strong communication

Training and teaching

Math & analytical reasoning

Mechanical aptitude

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Making Better Happen

Our story goes back more than 150 years, to the windy coast where Sweden and Denmark meet.

Making Better Happen

Our story goes back more than 150 years, to the windy coast where Sweden and Denmark meet.

From our success in Scandinavia, we've grown into the world's leading specialist producer of plant-based oils, employing more than 4000 people all across the globe.

We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils we produce go into making your chocolate extra creamy or putting the crunch into your croissant. And it's not just food - we work across industries to make products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet.

Every one of us works towards our shared purpose: Making Better Happen™.

Everything we do is about Making Better Happen together.

Join nearly 4,000 like-minded colleagues globally and build a better future with us.

Build a better future as a Production Supervisor in Louisville, KY

Compensation Range: $78,000 - $104,000

Possible Bonus: 7.5%

AAK Louisville

About The Role

The Assistant Production Supervisor is responsible for coordinating the activities of the K2 Processing side, Refinery, Bleaching, RX, Hydro, L1, FOL and inventory. They are also responsible for tracking products ran from the schedule, the enforcement of company rules, ensuring that all employees are working safely, tracking product rates, training new employees, and keeping the work place in a clean and orderly manner. This will include organization and FIFO of received materials and supplies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safety effort by personal example.
• Support full plant wide compliance with safety rules to further our goal of 0 accidents and encouragement of reporting and correcting near misses.
• Support contractors during major construction or anytime maintenance contractors are on site.
• Identify high-risk safety/productivity issues and help remedy them.
• Adhere to SOPs and other work procedures as required to assure product quality and consistency to our customers.
• Keep employees supplied with the essential tools, materials and information required for the products we are packing at the time.
• Enforce GMP compliance.
• Report any environmental issues to the immediate supervisor and EHS manager in order to correct any issues immediately.

Work Requirements

• Ensure each employee is working in a safe environment and have each employee understand job safety is job priority number one
• Oversee production personnel, processes and productivity
• Estimate product status and completion of schedule
• Oversee and estimate staffing needs to maintain production productivity
• Look for better ways to be more proficient, efficient and cost effective in staffing personnel, the cross training of personnel to fill in without the use of overtime
• Responsible for making sure employees are trained properly, job knowledgeable and able to perform job adequately to provide customers a superior product
• Execute work in a safe and expedient manner according to the following priorities:
• Report safety hazards and issues
• Educate and motivate personnel about safety in Safety Is Job Priority Number One
• Present ideas for a safer work environment such as improvement to processes
• Provide practical solutions to operations/ controls problems.
• Train employees in light of their needs and company needs.
• Look for opportunities to help work get done safer, faster and more cost effective.
• Monitor the pack schedule for product changes.
• Keep track of product rates.
• Assign job duties as needed.
• Keep hourly rates and amounts of products packed and also track down time,
• Enforce non-compliance procedures (safety issues/ideas, production status, employee issues, equipment issues & other plant related issues.

Cost Control

• Eliminate employee injuries by educating safety first
• Contribute to the effort in controlling costs and minimizing waste in product and shrinkage.
• Support goal of minimum employee staffing and still be able to have mass production.
• Support goal of cross training personnel to fill in gaps reducing overtime.
• Try and devise new SOP’s and adjust processes to make production more efficient.

About You

• High School Diploma or GED
• Microsoft Office and basic computer knowledge
• Good communication skills, able to motivate team members, be a good trainer and teacher, and have a good mechanical aptitude.
• Must have good math and reasoning ability.
• Able to apply general mathematical calculations, analysis of variance and other basic standard equations as required.

In return AAK offer

• Career paths, training and development, e-learning and tuition reimbursement programs offer potential for you to progress your future career
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental and vision) starting date of hire
• Health Savings Account with AAK annual contribution of $1,000-$1,500
• We match 100% of the first 3% you contribute to your 401(k), and 50% of the next 3%
• Free Life and Disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection and Legal Insurance Plans
• Discounts on travel, amusement parks, concerts, movies, and more
• Celebrations, events, and activities on site and supporting our communities
• Recognition incentives for service and peer to peer recognition

About AAK

Everything AAK does is about Making Better Happen™. We specialize in plant-based oils that are the value-adding ingredients in many of the products people love to consume. We make these products better tasting, healthier, and more sustainable. At the heart of AAK’s offer is Customer Co-Development, combining our desire to understand what better means for each customer, with the unique flexibility of our production assets, and a deep knowledge of many products and industries, including Chocolate & Confectionery, Bakery, Dairy, Plant-based Foods, Special Nutrition, Foodservice and Personal Care. Our 4,000 employees support our close collaboration with customers through 25 regional sales offices, 15 dedicated Customer Innovation Centers, and with the support of more than 20 production facilities. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and with our headquarters in Malmö, Sweden, AAK has been Making Better Happen™ for more than 150 years.

AAK prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, religion, veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under state or federal law in any aspect of the access to, admission, or treatment of students in its programs and activities, or in employment and application for employment.