Production Supervisor

J&J Snack Foods; Bellmawr (NJ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

J&J Snack Foods seeks a Production Supervisor to supervise production personnel across multiple lines, ensuring timely start-ups and adherence to GMP and food safety procedures. The role involves labor crewing, material staging, and maintaining line speeds and product weights per schedule.

You will coordinate with management to address issues, train staff on safety, and prepare efficiency and material reports for shift leadership.

Qualifications

• Associates degree preferred but not required.
• 1-3 years food manufacturing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and effective Production line start-ups (6 lines).
• Effective labor crewing for all line positions.
• Placement of temporary personnel for attendance issues.
• Obtaining and staging of raw materials for the shift.
• Ensuring GMP, safety and food safety compliance.
• Oversee dough mixing and remix batching to specifications.
• Maintain line speeds and product weights to standards.
• Report payroll time and track downtime.
• Prepare weekly bulk material ordering and delivery schedules.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication

Problem solving

Self-starter

Multi-tasking

Education

Associate degree preferred

Food manufacturing knowledge 1-3 years

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY:

Supervise the activities of production personnel engaged in all facets of the manufacturing function. Maintain open line of communication regarding problems, break downs and anything that may effect schedule reliability.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :

Ensure timely and effective Production line start-ups (6 lines).

• Effective labor crewing for all positions for each line-producing product.
• Placement of temporary personnel labor positions for coverage of attendance issues.
• Obtaining and staging of all raw materials necessary for the entire shift production.
• Evaluating and receiving of all bulk inventory ingredients for usage and storage.
• Producing product efficiently in agreement with production schedule.
• Ensure all personnel comply with GMP, Safety and food safety procedures.
• Oversee mixing of dough batches in accordance with formula specifications.
• Oversee the mixing of remix batching to specifications.
• Ensure the product lines are producing at proper line speed and proper product weight.
• Oversee and ensure proper color, bake and shape is achieved for all products scheduled.
• Oversee the shift handling of all ingredients to be in compliance with food safety.
• Monitor the freezing temperatures of our entire freezer spirals and scheduled defrost times.
• Complete all necessary reporting of payroll time for their respective employees.
• Oversee the timely random product weight sampling efforts of line personnel.
• Ensure all shift personnel work safely and that machinery defects are reported timely.
• Handle all disciplinary matters in dealings with personnel when necessary.
• Oversee the proper completion of all HAACP reports.
• Provide training for employees in the areas of: Safety, GMP and Food safety.
• Initiate a daily labor schedule for needed personnel for following days schedule.
• Calculate and track usage of materials from the mixers batch sheets.
• Perform random plant safety audit and submit correctional work orders to maintenance.
• Attend meetings as scheduled and directed by management.
• Track all shift downtime in production and have maintenance perform shift repairs.
• Maintain logs for bulk ingredients receiving, line change sanitation.
• Prepare weekly bulk material ordering/delivery schedules.
• Report all attendance personnel issues to the HR department.
• Interface with all management personnel of all departments.
• Recommend any and all changes or problem areas in operation to Dir. of Mfg.
• Prepare Production Efficiency Report at end of shift.

While this job description may not encompass every detail of a Supervisors daily activity, it must be understood that these responsibilities above are the “Baseline” for an effective shift management within the production environment.

COMPETENCIES:

To perform this job successfully, ProductionSupervisor must be self-motivated, able toproblem solve,detail-oriented, and abletostay on task. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilityrequired.

• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Must beaself-starter and be able toaccomplisha versatile and evolving workload.
• Excellent in all forms of communication.
• Skilled at PowerPoint design and ideation.
• Innovative, problem solver, flexible,and able tojuggle multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to multi-task, prioritize,and adapt well to change.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Associatesdegree preferred but notrequired
• 1-3 years food manufacturing knowledge

US Salary Pay Range

$60,000 - $75,000 USD

Disclaimer:This position description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

EEO Statement:J&J Snack Foods Corp.is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discriminatory employment actions against, and treatment of, employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived Federal, State and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, alienage, religion or creed, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, genetic disposition or characteristics, disability or veteran's status, sex offenses, prior record of arrest or conviction, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking and unemployment status.

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