Production Supervisor, 2nd shift

Brakebush Brothers, Inc.; Hartwell (GA); Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Brakebush Brothers, Inc. in Hartwell, GA is seeking a Production Supervisor (2nd shift) to oversee the production team and optimize line performance. You will coordinate with multiple departments to ensure safety, quality, and efficient operation.

The ideal candidate has supervisory experience in food processing, strong communication skills, and proficiency with MS Office to write reports and analyze data. This exempt role requires flexibility across shifts and some weekend work.

Qualifications

• Three years supervisory or leadership experience in a food-processing or manufacturing environment leading a production team.
• Bachelor’s degree with a Food Science or Poultry Science internship.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including professional oral and written communication, team focus, and calm decision-making under pressure.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.

Responsibilities

• Supervise teams to meet productivity, quality, waste and safety targets.
• Ensure compliance with GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs, HACCP and SQF.
• Coordinate startups, changeovers, and sanitation; manage change initiatives.
• Facilitate performance appraisals and corrective actions to promote safe teamwork.
• Improve quality, yields and line throughput on the assigned line.

Skills

Supervisory leadership

Production knowledge

Interpersonal skills

MS Office

Reports & spreadsheets

Education

Bachelor’s in Food Science or Poultry Science

Tools

SAP

Infinity

Job description

Job Description

Title: Production Supervisor, 2nd shift, 2nd Shift Req ID: 10554

City, State: Hartwell, GA

Reports to: Production Manager

Classification:Exempt

Summary: The Production Supervisor is responsible for the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality product, consistently high yields, and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" approach, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (e.g. other Production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.

Essential Functions

• Use effective supervision, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet/exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.
• Ensure compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF.
• Coordinates and guides team through production situations e.g. startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.
• Facilitates the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments. Identifies areas for individual/team development.
• Improves quality, yields and throughput on their designated line.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated three years supervisoryor leadershipskills with afood-processing or manufacturing companyleading a production teamOR a bachelor’s degree with a prior Food Science or Poultry Science (or closely related) internship.
• Demonstrated production knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.
• Proven time-management and organizational/office skills including competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Poultry facility experience
• Supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Water Jet Cutting, Further Processing experience preferred)
• Experience with SAP or Infinity
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will supervise the production team members at the Hartwell facility.

Work Environment: Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

Position Type: This is an exempt position.The shift varies: first, second, third or floater. Some Saturday work required.

Travel: Travel is not required.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug testand background check arerequired.

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. We are unable to provide or assume work sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

Please see our Benefits Page to learn more about the amazing Health and Wellness Benefits offered to our employees!

Brakebush Brothers, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in our hiring, training, or promotion policies. We will not discriminate against job applicants or employees for reasons of race, religion, color, sex, handicap, age, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by law.