Production Supervisor

LT Foods Americas; South Brunswick (NJ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LT Foods Americas is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead and coordinate manufacturing operations in a fast-paced facility. The role focuses on safety, quality, and efficiency while ensuring adherence to SOPs and GMPs across shifts.

The ideal candidate will have several years of food-manufacturing supervision experience, knowledge of Lean principles, HACCP/HARPC, and a commitment to continuous improvement in a team-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant food manufacturing experience, including supervisory responsibilities.
• Experience following and supporting the development of SOPs and training documents.
• Strong commitment to safety, quality, productivity, and employee development.
• Familiarity with GMPs, HACCP, HARPC, and food safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Supervise manufacturing employees: set expectations, assign work, monitor performance, train, and enforce policies.
• Support staffing, onboarding, training, cross-training, and ongoing performance feedback.
• Maintain production flow: monitor steps, equipment, and materials; coordinate actions and corrective actions.
• Execute daily production plan: assign personnel, set priorities, monitor progress, resolve routine problems, complete shift reports.
• Maintain product quality by enforcing SOPs, GMPs, and food safety requirements.
• Provide production records, downtime, labor usage, yield, quality results and shift data.
• Identify opportunities to improve operations, safety, quality, and efficiency; recommend improvements.
• Promote teamwork across Production, Quality, Warehouse, Sanitation, and Maintenance.

Skills

Leadership

Food manufacturing

Lean manufacturing

HACCP/HARPC

GMPs

Problem-solving

SAP knowledge

Quality control

Supervisory experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

Are you looking to be part of a fast-growing global food business with North American operations headquartered in the southern California area? Do you want to realize your ambitions while being part of a principle driven organization that aspires to transform its business through powerful Brands? At LT Foods Americas (LTFA), we have an ambition to become a Food business driven by the 5 principles that underpin everything we do: Business Ethics, Innovation, Ownership, Passion for Excellence, & Customer Centricity. We are seeking associates who want to drive meaning in their work that benefits them, the organization and the world around us. What you get at LTFA is challenging, interesting work with opportunities to grow in the U.S. and beyond. You get the tools you need to do an excellent job and you have smart, motivated people around you to help you do it! It’s about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we’ll all be a little better off. It’s that mix of integrity and ambition that makes LTFA such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

LT Foods Americas (LTFA) is part of LT Foods Limited, an emerging global food company, with Net Sales in excess of $1 billion globally, operating across a range of categories including specialty rice, organic foods and convenience rice based products. The Company is engaged in milling, processing and marketing of branded and non-branded basmati rice, and manufacturing of rice food products in India & international market. LT Foods has a global presence including India, Middle East, United Kingdom, Europe and United States. Its operations include contract farming, procurement, storage, processing, packaging and distribution. Its rice product portfolio comprises brown, white, steamed, parboiled, organic, quick cooking brown rice, and ready-to-heat rice. The Company's brands include DAAWAT®, ROYAL®; 817 ELEPHANT®, INDUS VALLEY®, ECOLIFE® & GRAPEOLA®.

Key Responsibilities

Production

• Supervises manufacturing employees by communicating job expectations; assigning work; monitoring performance; coaching and training employees; and consistently applying company policies and procedures.
• Supports staffing and employee development by participating in selection, onboarding, training, cross-training, and ongoing performance feedback.
• Maintains production flow by monitoring process steps, equipment, control points, personnel, and materials; escalating equipment or process issues; and coordinating timely corrective action.
• Executes the daily production plan by assigning personnel, establishing shift priorities, monitoring progress, adjusting work assignments, resolving routine problems, and completing accurate shift production reports.
• Maintains product quality by enforcing company standards, SOPs, GMPs, food safety requirements, and quality control procedures.
• Provides production information by accurately compiling, reviewing, and reporting production records, downtime, labor usage, yield, quality results, and other shift performance data.
• Identifies opportunities to improve operating practices, workflow, recordkeeping, safety, quality, efficiency, and cost performance; recommends improvements to the Production Manager.
• Maintains a safe, clean, and organized work environment by training and directing employees on the proper use of equipment and resources and ensuring compliance with established safety policies and procedures.
• Promotes teamwork and effective communication within the shift and across Production, Quality, Warehouse, Sanitation, and Maintenance.
• Ensures production efficiency, labor efficiency, recovery yield, and FTQ (First Time Quality) standards are achieved; escalates gaps and supports corrective actions.

Maintenance:

• Performs and verifies operator preventive maintenance activities as assigned and ensures required documentation is completed.
• Coordinates breakdown response with Maintenance and communicates equipment issues, production impact, and repair priorities.
• Monitors production-area parts and supplies and promptly communicates replenishment needs to the appropriate department.
• Supports scheduled maintenance activities and works closely with Maintenance, equipment vendors, and operators to improve equipment reliability.
• 3 years of relevant food manufacturing experience, including at least 1 year in a lead or supervisory role.
• Grain industry experience a plus but not required.
• Working knowledge of HACCP, HARPC, food safety, and sanitation requirements.
• Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, basic problem-solving, and statistical process control concepts.
• Mechanically inclined and able to support operator maintenance, troubleshooting, and equipment changeovers.
• Understanding of SAP preferred but not required.
• Strong commitment to safety, quality, productivity, and employee development.
• Willing and able to work on the production lines when operational needs require.
• Experience following and supporting the development of SOPs and training documents.
• Working knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Familiarity with GFSI standards, including SQF and FSSC 22000.
• Thorough understanding of GMPs in the food industry.

Desired Qualifications:

• SAP knowledge preferred.
• Food manufacturing supervisory experience preferred.