Production Supervisor - 1st Shift

Conagra Brands; St. Elmo (IL); On-site; USD 64,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Stock purchase plan

Career development opportunities

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible work schedules

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Conagra Brands is seeking a manufacturing supervisor in Illinois to lead daily production plans, ensuring quality, productivity, and cost standards while driving continuous improvements. You will supervise teams, address bottlenecks, and uphold a clean, safe plant environment while coaching staff for performance.

Responsibilities include monitoring line performance, coordinating daily outputs, and leading shift handoffs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• 3-5 years supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience in a food processing or manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead team members to execute daily production plans that meet quality, productivity, and cost standards.
• Identify operational issues or bottlenecks and lead structured, team based problem solving efforts to resolve them.
• Monitor production performance to ensure established standards are maintained.
• Support employee development through training, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Support oversight of sanitation and operations activities to maintain a clean, food safe manufacturing environment.
• Ensure adherence to plant rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Promote and support plant and company safety programs and compliance with defined safety requirements.
• Participate in development of daily plans and delivery of daily line performance.
• Drive execution and sustainment of standard work to achieve daily direction setting results.
• Lead shift handoff meetings to ensure effective communication and alignment between shifts.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Supervisory experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

Your Responsibilities

• Lead team members to execute daily production plans that meet quality, productivity, and cost standards
• Identify operational issues or bottlenecks and lead structured, team based problem solving efforts to resolve them
• Monitor production performance to ensure established standards are maintained
• Support employee development through training, coaching, and performance feedback
• Support oversight of sanitation and operations activities to maintain a clean, food safe manufacturing environment
• Ensure adherence to plant rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Promote and support plant and company safety programs and compliance with defined safety requirements
• Participate in development of daily plans and delivery of daily line performance
• Drive execution and sustainment of standard work to achieve daily direction setting results
• Lead shift handoff meetings to ensure effective communication and alignment between shifts

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred
• 3-5 years supervisory experience preferred
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment preferred
• Experience in a food processing or manufacturing environment is a plus
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, and organizational skills

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compensation

Annual Base Salary: $64,000.00 - $95,000.00 The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Benefits

• We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role
• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions - within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions - within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye ®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.