Night-Shift Bakery Production Supervisor Lead to Optimize

Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, Llc; Traverse City (MI); In loco; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Sara Lee Frozen Bakery in Traverse City, MI is seeking a Production Supervisor to join the plant leadership team. The role oversees production associates, ensures safety, quality and efficiency, and collaborates with maintenance, sanitation, and shipping to meet targets.

Responsibilities include coaching operators, building a strong shift team, implementing policies, and coordinating resources for smooth line operation and changeovers. A bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required.
• 3-5 years of supervisory experience in production, preferably in the food processing industry or fast-paced consumer products manufacturing environment
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), including the ability to handle difficult conversations
• Strong organizational skills required
• Must be willing to work flexible hours including nights, weekends and holidays
• Must be willing to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Knowledge of FDA, USDA, and EPA is preferred
• Must be willing to become proficient in NetSuite ERP

Mansioni

• The Production Supervisors are responsible for delivering operational targets and leading teams.
• Driving safety, quality, continuous improvement, performance management, associate development, team engagement and operating results for their assigned area
• Building an effective team on his/her shift and in his/her area of responsibility and manage the training strategy for both individual associates and the team
• Implement and enforce established policy as well as area and organizational strategies
• Coordinate materials, staffing and resources to support line operation and changeovers
• Collaborate with the rest of the Area Leadership Team (Area Manager or Continuous Improvement Engineer, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Maintenance Coordinator) to create and execute the reliability strategy for area of responsibility
• Coach operators to build their functional and leadership capabilities and to drive accountability in people safety, quality and food safety, autonomous maintenance, and team engagement
• Develop, implement and promote safety programs and safe work practices through involvement in plant safety teams, programs and initiatives
• Ensure the ongoing production of safe and defect free products consistent with the principles of Sara Lee Frozen Bakery
• Manage associate relations issues and guide and direct the hiring, training, retraining, development and motivation of Operations associates
• Utilize the technical resources on shift for the preventive maintenance, repair and troubleshooting of process/packaging equipment problems, with the objective of effectively using these resources to achieve desired performance levels
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities as well as reactively lead on-shift incident resolution when operators require additional support. Prioritize, assign resources against escalated issues, and make decisions to resolve escalated issues
• Participate in the implementation of improvement strategies that will help the line/area perform more effectively
• Responsible for partnering with Talent Acquisition to recruit and select associates for operations roles, and responsible to onboard associates effectively

Conoscenze

Supervisory experience

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Microsoft Office Suite

Kronos

NetSuite ERP

Leadership

FDA/USDA knowledge

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Strumenti

Microsoft Office Suite

Kronos

NetSuite ERP

Descrizione del lavoro

Sara Lee Frozen Bakery in Traverse City, MI is seeking a Production Supervisor to join the plant leadership team. The role oversees production associates, ensures safety, quality and efficiency, and collaborates with maintenance, sanitation, and shipping to meet targets.

Responsibilities include coaching operators, building a strong shift team, implementing policies, and coordinating resources for smooth line operation and changeovers. A bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.