Plant Superintendent

Post Holdings, Inc.; Wakefield (NE); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. Wakefield facility is seeking a Plant Superintendent to lead production KPIs, safety, and personnel matters. You will supervise salaried supervisors, plan resources, and enforce policy across the operation.

Responsibilities include safety, quality compliance, maintenance coordination, and staffing. The role requires strong leadership, collaboration with all levels, and a focus on continuous improvement in a busy food processing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
• 5-7 years' experience in processing and supervision.
• Experience with continuous manufacturing processes is preferred.
• Experience building and maintaining employee relations processes.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervises and coordinates salaried supervisor roles, including goal setting and performance evaluation.
• Schedule and supervise resources to meet production goals.
• Ensure compliance with policies, safety and quality standards.
• Maintain a safe work environment and improve overall safety.
• Schedule staff and assign duties to meet production needs.
• Develop and administer material and labor usage controls.
• Implement employee relations programs to boost engagement.
• Support maintenance programs and review predictive maintenance data.
• Respond to interruptions in production and manage recovery.
• Maintain inventories of production supplies.
• Apply federal, state and local food processing regulations.
• Collaborate across levels to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Processing experience

Supervision

Employee relations

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that's First in Food.

Location Description

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY: The Plant Superintendent will have the responsibility for meeting line objectives related to production KPI's, safety, quality, personnel matters, and enforcement of company policy. This includes continuous improvement throughout the facility and development of individuals within their organization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 1. Directly supervises and coordinates salaried supervisor roles including goal setting, evaluating performance, hiring and terminating.
• 2. Schedules and supervises manufacturing resources to meet production goals established by operations management in alignment with business goals and objectives.
• 3. Assures production activities are in compliance with company policies and procedures to include environmental, quality control standards and safety compliance.
• 4. Ensures a safe work environment is maintained or improved throughout the plant.
• 5. Schedules staff and assigns duties to meet production needs.
• 6. Develops and administers material and labor usage controls.
• 7. Implements employee relations programs with the objective of improving employee engagement and morale.
• 8. Participates in production equipment maintenance program (as needed) including evaluation of predictive maintenance data, scheduling PM activities.
• 9. Responds to unexpected interruptions in the production process.
• 10. Maintains inventories of production supplies.
• 11. Human resource concepts and procedures.
• 12. Federal, state and local laws, rules, and regulations related to food processing.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
• 5-7 years' experience in processing and supervision.

PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Experience with continuous manufacturing processes.
• Preventative and predictive maintenance program experience.
• Experience working collaboratively with all levels of employees.
• Experience with developing and implementing a positive employee relations process.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to be on call and work extended or after hours as needed.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the work and may not include all of the responsibilities or duties required.