Production Supervisor

Fresh Express Salads; Streamwood (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Fresh Express Salads is seeking a Production Supervisor to manage shift start-up, fulfill customer demands, and coordinate people and materials on the production floor. The role ensures safety, quality, and cost targets are met and that the daily schedule is executed.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or food manufacturing and at least 3 years of supervising experience in a food processing environment, with strong leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering or food manufacturing.
• Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to translate complex schedules into actionable tasks.
• Proven leadership and communication abilities.
• Preferred bilingual English/Spanish or English/Polish.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and interpret the daily manufacturing schedule.
• Ensure compliance with food processing, sanitation, safety, and cost controls.
• Drive continual process improvement and productive operations.
• Coordinate resources to complete the daily production plan.
• Support new product launches with adequate manufacturing resources.
• Coach and mentor direct reports and maintain performance standards.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Time management

Coaching & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering or food manufacturing

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

The Production Supervisor will be responsible for shift start-up, fulfillment of customer demands, and coordination of people and materials. This individual will supervise the production of all finished goods in keeping with the standards established regarding Safety, Quality and Cost.

Schedule: 5 am to 4:30 pm

Essential Functions, Duties and Responsibilities

• Evaluate and interpret daily manufacturing schedule.
• Understanding of food processing, food sanitation, food safety, worker safety and cost savings development.
• Ensure continual process improvement.
• Ensure the overall completion of the daily production schedule.
• Support the launching of all new products and process.
• Maintaining a standard of performance for the manufacturing group.
• Ability to communicate throughout the organization in written and verbal form.
• Strong understanding of food processing, food sanitation, food safety, worker safety, cost development or equivalent.
• Support new product initiatives through allocating adequate manufacturing resources to implement and support new products.
• Maintain and improve labor variances and yield goals.
• Review KRONOS punch detail reports and make corrections to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley controls.
• Monitor daily attendance records to ensure compliance with attendance policies.
• Must have good time management skills, give constructive feedback and able to drive accountability.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering or Food Manufacturing equivalent.
• Proficiency in MS office software (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• The ability to take complex assignments and interpret them into working action items.
• Proven leadership skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to supervise direct reports through coaching and mentoring.

Other Desired Qualifications/Skills:

• Formal process improvement, leadership and execution with demonstration of success.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish or English/Polish) preferred.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in production supervision within a food processing and packaging environment or equivalent

Working Conditions

Production plant environment with some business office.

Other Information:

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed, as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.