Production Supervisor

Colorado-Premium-Foods-3; Jackson Field (CO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Colorado Premium Foods is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead production employees, optimize yields, and ensure food safety and quality in daily operations. You will coordinate with logistics, safety, and QA teams to drive continuous improvement and meet scheduling goals.

Strong leadership, bilingual English/Spanish preferred, and experience with HACCP/USDA compliance are valued as you mentor staff and sustain an engaged, compliant workforce in our Jackson Field facility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Three years progressive leadership experience in relevant commercial food operations.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite, and knowledge of industry product reporting systems.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations; bilingual a plus (English/Spanish).

Responsibilities

• Directly supervises production personnel to achieve yields, gross margins, scheduling, and sanitation.
• Leads loss prevention, risk management, USDA compliance, and labor/employee relations.
• Coordinates with Human Resources on recruitment, training and retention of talent.
• Ensures safety and quality standards; trains staff to follow SOPs and HACCP/USDA requirements.
• Maintains production paperwork, inventory records and performance metrics.
• Mentors staff to ensure engagement and succession planning as appropriate.
• Addresses production issues; analyzes variances and implements continuous improvement actions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Training & Development

Problem Solving

Mentoring

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Job Title: Production SupervisorReports to: Production/ Shipping ManagerSummary: This position is responsible for supervising production employees to optimize quality, service andefficiency to achieve operational excellence, in accordance with company policies and procedures. The safety,development and retention of your team is your highest priority. As the frontline leader in logistics, production, andfood safety, employee engagement, teamwork and coaching are your responsibilities. You will also coordinate withbusiness partners to ensure a seamless flow of product and champion continuous improvement. BilingualEnglish/Spanish preferred.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:• Directly supervises personnel in the day-to-day production operations of the business to achieve yields, grossmargins, scheduling, both raw and finished goods. Supervises in an appropriate manner regarding all aspects ofproduction activities, including, prioritizing duties, delegating work assignments, and scheduling employees tooptimize production and sanitation functions, as necessary. Trains and provides an environment for employeesto achieve their maximum quality and productivity performance in their respective positions.• Lead efforts in assigned areas of responsibility related to loss prevention, risk management, USDA compliance,and labor/employee relations. Promotes department and company goodwill through pro-active employeecommunication and employee involvement. As an active participant, coordinates with Human resources therecruitment, selection, training & development, and retention of qualified talent in all operational areas.Champions the training and development of existing staff to ensure engagement and succession planning benchstrength as appropriate.• Ensures that assigned employees are meeting Performance Measurement Standards (e.g. productivity,attendance, tardiness, safety and quality), and communicates with employees regarding pertinent informationfor daily, event or seasonal business issues. Ensures that individual employee’s productivity support businessobjectives and to establish an engaged workforce through the training of staff and the reduction of turnover.• Works with the Operation Manager and other Supervisors to maintain knowledge of yields, quality andvariances to help realize goals on yields and efficiencies. Evaluates processes and methods, and makesrecommendations on continuous improvement methods, equipment performance, utilization of people, andquality of product and safety objectives. Acts as a technical resource to address and resolve inquiries andproblems regarding production, quality and work problems as appropriate.• Performs routine walking and visual inspections of the production floor in observation of unsafe acts orconditions; takes immediate corrective action where necessary to develop and meet plant safety goals. Isactively involved in safety efforts including, attending safety meetings, incident investigations, assisting in rootcause analysis, auditing, as assigned. Trains employees to ensure adherence to safe operating procedures.• Maintains adequate knowledge of products and equipment to ensure the ability to direct employees to performthe job properly, and to maintain the desired product specification requirements throughout the manufacturingprocess. Ensures tasks are completed in accordance with HACCP and USDA regulations; taking corrective ortraining actions as necessary.• Maintains and controls departmental supplies, tools and equipment. Ensures the completion of all requiredproduction paperwork including, corrective actions, terminations, performance records, inventory, inspection,quality reports, maintenance work orders.Education/Experience:• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.• Three years progressive leadership experience in relevant commercial food operations, preferably in a protein-related industry. Previous food processing experience, supervisory experience, manufacturing knowledge andunderstanding of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures, preferred.• Proficient in MS Office Suite, and knowledge of industry product reporting systems.• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations regarding potentially controversial issues, whichinvolve tact, forethought, and influence positive outcomes among groups of varying positions. Bilingual a plus• Ability to read and interpret documents such as dictated letters or memoranda, invoices, company policies andvarious documentation, paying particular attention to grammar. Ability to process routine reports andcorrespondences.• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions,and to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Must have strongleadership and mentoring skills.• Competent mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using wholenumbers, common fractions, and decimals accurately. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent correctly.Ability to lead problem solving and troubleshooting efforts associated with operational-level process issues.#INDSJ