PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR - PNBB

Beverage Distribution Center, Inc.; Pennsauken Township (NJ); Sur place; USD 75 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Beverage Distribution Center, Inc. is seeking a shift production supervisor to efficiently run day-to-day operations of the shift manufacturing function, ensuring top quality and safe beverage products in line with company policies.

You will direct a team of 15–20 hourly employees, collaborate with maintenance, quality control, warehouse and logistics to keep production moving, and enforce safety procedures while meeting efficiency and cost targets. Night shifts and weekends may be required.

Qualifications

• Five years manufacturing line supervisory experience.
• Beverage, food or other fast paced packaging line experience.
• Maintenance and quality control experience highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines while dealing with complexity.
• Ability to write reports and compile accurate records.
• Good time management and effective decision-making skills.
• Ability to work during off-shift hours including night shift and weekends.
• Good understanding of industrial safety.

Responsabilités

• Directs a work force of between 15 and 20 hourly employees, including line machine operators, lab technicians and mechanics.
• Works closely with other shift production supervisors for exchange of information and to assure continuity of production activities across shifts.
• Partner with Maintenance Supervisor to coordinate repairs and preventive maintenance of production equipment; Quality Control Manager to coordinate quality control activities and corrective actions; Warehouse Supervisors to coordinate availability of materials stored in warehouse; Logistics Supervisor and outside vendor logistics dispatchers to coordinate Just-in-Time synchronization of raw material deliveries.
• Disseminate production procedures and union contract, ensures adherence to work rules and administers disciplinary action.
• Monitor equipment operation, coordinating raw materials, preparing reports, motivating and supervising plant employees.
• Supervise production personnel to achieve production efficiency and cost goals.
• Supervise employees to manufacture quality products in adherence to company quality policies and procedures.
• Achieve accurate work order processing and receiving of raw materials (bottles, cans, etc.).
• Develop and monitor employee performance and perform employee evaluations.
• Maintain a safe environment and enforce safety procedures and practices.
• Achieve standard efficiency goals and operate with breakage under 0.25% on a consistent basis. Operate with raw material loss under 1%.
• Ensure that production schedule is completed, and all production work orders are processed on a timely basis. Communicate with logistics personnel on any potential delays or deviations from schedule.
• Ensure that employees run equipment at target speeds, operating equipment effectively, attending to issues quickly and safely. Ensure operators report downtime and equipment issues accurately.
• Ensure that operators and lab technicians perform flavor changeovers with correct timing, correct product and correct materials, with minimum downtime and material loss. Investigate any deviations and report them for discussion and improvement.
• Monitor raw material usage and waste during shift maintaining awareness of syrup batch yields, bottle loss and low-fill rejects, etc. Contribute with practical suggestions to reduce waste.
• Review operator process and downtime logs, initial them in real time and take action to address repetitive issues. Ensure that operators have access to required process control blank sheets.
• Monitor production processes while on the production floor, researching opportunities for improvement and proposing solutions. Engage crew in line meetings or discussions of line issues in order to gather suggestions and improvements.
• Work closely with shift mechanics, discussing operational and mechanical issues and facilitating agreement to resolve repetitive issues. Submit maintenance work requests as dictated by operational issues.
• Monitor shift mechanics’ performance, ensuring prompt response to line issues and providing guidance related to production line priorities. Communicate performance issues to maintenance management and follow up on performance improvement plans and disciplinary action, if needed.
• Perform administrative duties effectively, including preparation of manning schedule for regular work week and overtime shifts, labor coding for payroll approval, and downtime reporting.
• Communicate with logistics and other supervisors to ensure adequate supply of raw materials to maintain production continuity across all shifts.
• Ensure that raw material shipments are accurately processed in inventory system and put away following SOP's and FIFO procedures. Ensure that used pallets and dunnage are returned following SOP’s.
• Perform safety inspections of production areas monthly. Ensure employees run equipment following safety best practices and SOP’s. Ensure that employees wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as determined by safety procedures. Report unsafe conditions, including those reported by employees. Report safety incidents and lost time accidents immediately.
• Report immediately any condition that may contaminate or make products and packages unsafe.
• Review operators’ process control and packaging inspection log sheets, ensuring inspections are taking place in a timely manner and take action to address operational issues reported.
• Report and take action in response to raw material quality issues, segregate defective materials, and ensure operators and lab technicians gather defective samples of product or raw materials including lot number information.
• Ensure that quality issues are addressed on a timely manner so that defects are kept to a minimum and product on hold is minimized.
• Ensure that subordinates maintain work station area and equipment clean, follow Housekeeping SOP's and keep cleaning tools in their proper location. Enforce and ensure that employees follow Good Manufacturing Practices as trained.
• Ensure that employees report at their stations in time and in uniform, take their breaks at specified times and do not leave work stations unattended.
• Report all attendance incidents via email and submit log sheet to HR on a daily basis.
• Perform other duties as required.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Communication skills

Problem solving

Time management

Decision making

Outils

Microsoft Office

Manufacturing planning software

Description du poste

POSITION SUMMARY:

To efficiently manage the day-to-day operation of the shift manufacturing function while producing top quality and safe beverage products following company policies and procedures.

REPRESENTATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

The following responsibilities are general duties that a particular employee in this position may or may not be required to perform. The actual duties required of this position will vary.

• Directs a work force of between 15 and 20 hourly employees, including line machine operators, lab technicians and mechanics.
• Works closely with other shift production supervisors for exchange of information and to assure continuity of production activities across shifts.
• Partner with Maintenance Supervisor to coordinate repairs and preventive maintenance of production equipment; Quality Control Manager to coordinate quality control activities and corrective actions; Warehouse Supervisors to coordinate availability of materials stored in warehouse; Logistics Supervisor and outside vendor logistics dispatchers to coordinate Just-in-Time synchronization of raw material deliveries.
• Disseminate production procedures and union contract, ensures adherence to work rules and administers disciplinary action.
• Monitor equipment operation, coordinating raw materials, preparing reports, motivating and supervising plant employees.
• Supervise production personnel to achieve production efficiency and cost goals.
• Supervise employees to manufacture quality products in adherence to company quality policies and procedures.
• Achieve accurate work order processing and receiving of raw materials (bottles, cans, etc.).
• Develop and monitor employee performance and perform employee evaluations.
• Maintain a safe environment and enforce safety procedures and practices.
• Achieve standard efficiency goals and operate with breakage under 0.25% on a consistent basis. Operate with raw material loss under 1%.
• Ensure that production schedule is completed, and all production work orders are processed on a timely basis. Communicate with logistics personnel on any potential delays or deviations from schedule.
• Ensure that employees run equipment at target speeds, operating equipment effectively, attending to issues quickly and safely. Ensure operators report downtime and equipment issues accurately.
• Ensure that operators and lab technicians perform flavor changeovers with correct timing, correct product and correct materials, with minimum downtime and material loss. Investigate any deviations and report them for discussion and improvement.
• Monitor raw material usage and waste during shift maintaining awareness of syrup batch yields, bottle loss and low-fill rejects, etc. Contribute with practical suggestions to reduce waste.
• Review operator process and downtime logs, initial them in real time and take action to address repetitive issues. Ensure that operators have access to required process control blank sheets.
• Monitor production processes while on the production floor, researching opportunities for improvement and proposing solutions. Engage crew in line meetings or discussions of line issues in order to gather suggestions and improvements.
• Work closely with shift mechanics, discussing operational and mechanical issues and facilitating agreement to resolve repetitive issues. Submit maintenance work requests as dictated by operational issues.
• Monitor shift mechanics’ performance, ensuring prompt response to line issues and providing guidance related to production line priorities. Communicate performance issues to maintenance management and follow up on performance improvement plans and disciplinary action, if needed.
• Perform administrative duties effectively, including preparation of manning schedule for regular work week and overtime shifts, labor coding for payroll approval, and downtime reporting.
• Communicate with logistics and other supervisors to ensure adequate supply of raw materials to maintain production continuity across all shifts.
• Ensure that raw material shipments are accurately processed in inventory system and put away following SOP's and FIFO procedures. Ensure that used pallets and dunnage are returned following SOP’s.
• Perform safety inspections of production areas monthly. Ensure employees run equipment following safety best practices and SOP’s. Ensure that employees wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as determined by safety procedures. Report unsafe conditions, including those reported by employees. Report safety incidents and lost time accidents immediately.
• Report immediately any condition that may contaminate or make products and packages unsafe.
• Review operators’ process control and packaging inspection log sheets, ensuring inspections are taking place in a timely manner and take action to address operational issues reported.
• Report and take action in response to raw material quality issues, segregate defective materials, and ensure operators and lab technicians gather defective samples of product or raw materials including lot number information.
• Ensure that quality issues are addressed on a timely manner so that defects are kept to a minimum and product on hold is minimized.
• Ensure that subordinates maintain work station area and equipment clean, follow Housekeeping SOP's and keep cleaning tools in their proper location. Enforce and ensure that employees follow Good Manufacturing Practices as trained.
• Ensure that employees report at their stations in time and in uniform, take their breaks at specified times and do not leave work stations unattended.
• Report all attendance incidents via email and submit log sheet to HR on a daily basis.
• Perform other duties as required.

EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION:

• Five years manufacturing line supervisory experience.
• Beverage, food or other fast paced packaging line experience.
• Maintenance and quality control experience highly desirable.
• Effective team builder with demonstrated abilities providing leadership in a unionized environment.
• Demonstrated superior problem-solving skills and ability to drive process improvement.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Highly motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines while dealing with complexity.
• Good time management and effective decision-making skills.
• Ability to write reports and compile accurate records.
• Good Microsoft Office skills and manufacturing planning/controlling applications.
• Ability to work during off-shift hours including night shift and weekends.
• Good understanding of industrial safety.

We offer a competitive salary of $75k–$95k. Excellent benefits which include medical, dental and vision. Eligibility in benefit plans begin the first of the month following 60 days of employment. Six (6) days of sick leave; two (2) weeks of vacation accrued throughout the year; nine (9) Company Paid Holidays and a 401K Plan with employer match.

EOE without regard to race, color, religion, creed, affectional or sexual orientation or sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetics, veteran status, gender, gender identity, citizenship status, marital status, VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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 by personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the company.