Production Supervisor, 2nd shift

Brakebush Brothers, Inc.; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Brakebush Brothers, Inc. is seeking a Production Supervisor for the 2nd shift at their Westfield, WI facility. The ideal candidate will empower team members and ensure adherence to safety regulations while leading production efforts. Responsibilities include managing a team, overseeing production operations, and ensuring quality and efficiency.

The role requires leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility, strong communication skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. Candidates should be prepared for environmental variations and physical demands of the position.

Qualifications

• Three years of leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility leading a production team.
• Demonstrated production knowledge and strong interpersonal skills.
• Able to manage workflow under schedule constraints and emergent requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee team members to ensure productivity, quality assurance, and safety compliance.
• Manage production situations including startups and changeovers.
• Lead performance appraisals and promote positive teamwork.

Skills

Leadership experience

Communication skills

Production knowledge

Organization skills

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Title: Production Supervisor, 2nd shift, 2nd Shift

City, State: Westfield, WI

Reports to: Plant 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 and consistent high yields and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" mentality, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (such as other production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.

Essential Functions

• Empowers team members, through supervision, training, and feedback opportunities, to meet and 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 on a variety of production situations including startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.
• Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments.
• Improves quality, yields and throughput.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated three years Leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility leading a production team and/or a bachelor’s degree and two years of Leadership experience.
• 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.
• Able to organize and coordinate work within schedule constraints and handle emergent requirements in a timely manner
• Competent in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and Outlook

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a poultry facility
• Prior supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Further Processing experience preferred)
• Prior 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 Westfield 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, wearing appropriate PPE.

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, climbing stairs, visual inspections, responding quickly to team member needs, and challenges that may be happening.

Position Type: This is an exempt position. The shift hours and the assigned line may vary. Some Saturday work required.

Travel: Travel may be required.

Other Duties: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all 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 test and background check are required.

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. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. 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.