Production Supervisor- 3rd Shift

ZipRecruiter; La Crosse (WI); On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in La Crosse, WI is seeking a Packaging Supervisor to manage production lines, ensuring safety and quality standards are met. This role involves frontline leadership, training, and compliance with safety regulations. The ideal candidate will have supervisory experience in a high-speed packaging environment and a relevant degree.

Qualifications

• Strong background in people skills and hands on front line supervisory experience.
• Experience in a high-speed packaging environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety procedures are followed by adherence to Company policies.
• Compose weekly staffing schedule based on production requirements.
• Supervise training of employees in operations, safety, quality standards.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

High School Diploma or GED

BA/BS in Business, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

City Brewing Company – Who We Are

With our roots in La Crosse, WI, we are proud to be North America’s largest co-packager of alcoholic beverages with four locations across the United States. Through our focuses on Safety throughout our facilities, Quality of products produced for our customers, Communication at all levels, Growth of not just our locations but also of our employees in their careers, and Performance with our ability to meet deadlines and goals for ourselves and our customers, we pride ourselves on the brand we have created and continue to grow.

Job Summary

Provides frontline leadership and management of assigned production lines including but not limited to equipment and operator safety, front line quality control checks, proper supplies, instruction on equipment operations, production reporting, material tests, maintaining/improving line efficiencies, and overall packaging employee supervision. Ensure standards are met in a safe, efficient and effective manner.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure safety procedures are followed by adherence to Company policies.
• Ensure front line quality check compliance to meet Company quality standards.
• Assisting with mapping out processes, work with change management
• Sets clear expectations and goals for team members, provides training and support for team, measuring and monitoring performance against goal and objectives and providing feedback, mentoring and support.
• Recommend measures to maintain safe operations, improve production methods, equipment performance and use of equipment to increase efficiency, quality and safety of the department or work crew.
• Study production schedule to ascertain type and quantity of product, containers to be used, codes, package number, planning sequence of production and other packaging requirements.
• Compose weekly staffing schedule based on production requirements to ensure efficient operations and minimal overtime.
• Participates in the appropriate selection and usage of resources (materials, systems, utilities and equipment) required for the effective operations of packaging department.
• Confers with management, other departments, supervisors, and operators to coordinate activities to assure a safe environment, quality product, and product operations.
• Analyze and resolve work problems or assist workers in solving work problems.
• Initiate personnel actions, such as performance evaluations, and disciplinary measures.
• Facilitate daily debriefs with the packaging staff.
• Check and approve hours worked of hourly employees on the lines.
• Assist in internal auditing, such as GMP, HACCP and Safety.
• Ensure compliance with Internal, Federal, State and local guidelines and regulations including GMP, HACCP, OSHA, FDA and TTB
• Check the machinery of the lines for operational readiness and proper setup.
• Oversee the operations of the lines during production.
• Direct changeovers to assure proper materials are used, proper amounts are produced, and proper codes are used per the BOM.
• Frequently review the operator quality assurance checks throughout the shift.
• At shutdown, be present to assure the proper length of run and that all machinery, conveyors, air, CO2, water and chain lube is shut off.
• Take case counts and record.
• Make out work orders for repairs or improvements needed on the lines.
• Supervise training of employees in operations, safety, quality standards, GMP’s and HACCP procedures.
• All other duties as assigned by the Assistant Packaging Manager and Packaging Manager.

This position description is intended to guide the activities of the Packaging Supervisor. It is not intended to limit the thinking and creativity of the person to the work of this function, nor is it intended to describe all the work that may be required of the person in this position.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.
• BA/BS in Business, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related field
• Strong background in people skills and hands on front line supervisory experience preferably in the area of packaging
• Experience in a high-speed packaging environment
• Selected candidate must be willing to work any and all shifts, and weekends when necessary to cover the needs of the business

City Brewery is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all applicants will be considered without attention to , , , , , , , veteran, or status.

This is a 3rd Shift position. 10pm-6am