Senior Production Supervisor, 2nd shift

Brakebush Brothers, Inc.; Mocksville (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Production Supervisor to lead a dedicated team in a dynamic production environment. This pivotal role focuses on optimizing team performance and production efficiency while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive supervisory experience in a USDA regulated facility, demonstrating strong leadership and communication skills. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced setting, collaborating with various departments to drive continuous improvement and innovation. If you're passionate about leadership and production excellence, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Health and Wellness Benefits

Paid Time Off

Retirement Plan

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• 6+ years of supervisory experience in a USDA regulated facility or a degree with 3 years of leadership.
• Expertise in production processes and ability to supervise multiple departments.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to meet productivity and quality goals while ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
• Coordinate production situations and manage special projects effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Time Management

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

SAP

Infinity

Job description

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Title: Senior Production Supervisor, 2nd shift Req ID: 6888

Reports to: Plant Manager

Classification: Exempt

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary: The Senior 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 Production Supervisors and Leads, in addition to multiple departments (e.g., Safety, Quality Assurance, R&D, Maintenance, Shipping, and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.

Essential Functions:

• Use effective leadership, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet/exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.
• Ensure updates and 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, R&D Tests, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation. Manages special projects.
• Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments. Identifies areas for individual/team development.
• Seeks innovative and efficient ways to reduce condemns and inedible while improving product quality, yields and throughput on all the Production Lines.
• Improves and implements effective onboarding and training of new supervisors and/or new processes.
• Assists Shift Managers in the direction of Line Supervisors, Leads and line efficiencies. Conducts or attends meetings requiring Shift Managers in their absence (e.g., Scheduling Meeting, HACCP Meetings)

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated six years supervisory / leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility leading a production team OR a bachelor’s degree with three years of leadership experience.
• Demonstrated expertise and competence in production/production processes within the facility (e.g., all Production Lines, cookers, chillers, and freezers); ability to supervise multiple departments/processes at once.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership 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:

• Five years’ experience in a poultry facility
• Supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Further Processing experience preferred)
• Experience with SAP, Infinity, and our current HACCP regulations
• Bilingual (English/Spanish or English/Hmong) helpful, but not required
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will assist the Production Manager with the operation of all the Production Lines and Production Team Members.

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. Some Saturday work required.

Travel: Travel may be required.

Other Duties: Please note 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.

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.

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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. If you need assistance with the application process, please call [phone] or visit our contact us page for more ways to reach us.