Cocoa Production Supervisor — Safety & Efficiency

Barry Callebaut Manufacturing Iberica SA.; Eddystone (Delaware County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

12 paid holidays

Generous PTO

Workplace flexibility

Internal career growth

Sustainability mission

Job summary

Barry Callebaut in the United States is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead daily cocoa processing operations, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time production across bean receiving, roasting, grinding, and packaging. This role requires strong leadership of shift teams and coordination with maintenance to optimize performance.

You will monitor OEE, yields, and throughput, drive continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with HACCP and food-safety standards while delivering results in a

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED with 3 to 5 years of manufacturing experience within a food, ingredient, or process manufacturing environment.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with hourly employees, technical teams, managers, contractors, and corporate stakeholders.
• Ability to conduct shift meetings, incident investigations, performance discussions, and training sessions
• Verify completion of HACCP checks, quality sampling, and process monitoring.
• Support investigations related to quality deviations and customer complaints.
• Drive compliance with food safety systems, certifications, and audit requirements.
• Ensure proper material identification, traceability, and inventory accuracy.
• Lift up to 60 lbs unassisted, able to stand and remain on their feet 12 Hours shifts.
• Work in a non-climate control environment. Temperature can rise to 130◦F on certain areas.
• Comfortable working on environments with exposure to cocoa dust, debris, grease, and slippery surfaces.
• Candidate should be punctual and reliable, shift starts at 5:45 (am/pm depending on Shift) and finishes at 6:00 (pm/am depending on Shift

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate, and optimize daily manufacturing operations across all cocoa processing areas.
• Ensure production plans are executed safely and efficiently.
• Monitor throughput, yields, downtime, waste, and quality performance.
• Adjust labor and resources according to operational priorities. Maintain attendance and performance tracking of the shift.
• Coordinate shift activities to achieve production targets and customer requirements.
• Validate production reporting in SAP (Monitor inventory transactions, material consumptions), OEE systems (production reporting), and production databases
• Complete shift reports, handovers, investigations, and documentation.
• Execute and follow up on disciplinary actions when necessary.
• Coordinate with Maintenance to address breakdowns and equipment issues.
• Escalate critical equipment failures and support root cause investigations.
• Support preventive maintenance, autonomous maintenance, and sanitation activities.
• Support reliability initiatives to improve equipment uptime and operational performance.
• Champion Lean Manufacturing, BCOS, and continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate losses.
• Review OEE, downtime, waste, and efficiency data to identify opportunities.
• Lead problem-solving and corrective action activities.
• Drive standardization, process optimization, and cost reduction initiatives.

Skills

English communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Barry Callebaut in the United States is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead daily cocoa processing operations, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time production across bean receiving, roasting, grinding, and packaging. This role requires strong leadership of shift teams and coordination with maintenance to optimize performance.

You will monitor OEE, yields, and throughput, drive continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with HACCP and food-safety standards while delivering results in a