Shift Production Lead - Food Safety & Team Growth

Fresh Express Salads; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Fresh Express Salads in Columbia, SC seeks a Production Supervisor to oversee daily production operations, ensure food safety and workplace safety, and drive cost, quality, and service targets across the plant.

You will lead and develop staff, manage schedules, work with the MRP/AS400 system, and coordinate with temp agency to optimize staffing, while maintaining production line balance and responding to daily reports.

Qualifications

• B.S. in a related field from an accredited 4-year college.
• 5+ years progressive related experience within a manufacturing environment with minimum 3 years managing Supervisors
• Experience in food manufacturing and/or distribution preferred

Responsibilities

• Meet cost, quality and service targets within the Manufacturing and Operations area as detailed on our Plant Leadership Scorecards
• Manage, lead, and develop staff to establish a high-performance work team
• Develop and implement cost savings projects to improve overall departmental efficiency
• Engage with network peers to identify, create, and promote improvements in service and cost efficiency as a team
• Execute talent management strategy to improve organizational capacity and capability
• Ensure the Health and Welfare of our associates
• Evaluate and interpret daily production reports to observe trends in the production cycle
• Maintain a production line balance and issues system that allows the whole plant to have situational awareness of the production floor
• Understand AS400 system to interpret and implement the daily production schedule and be able to fill in for the scheduling department during non-typical work hours
• Work directly with the temporary employment agency to ensure the most efficient use of this resource
• Be an active member of the MRP group in achieving a goal of 100% order fill
• Ensure all safety accidents are followed up according to FE SOPs
• Ensure all corrective actions are followed up according to FE SOPs
• Objectives are not limited to the above.

Skills

People development

Team leadership

Influence across org

Prioritization

Communication

MS Office

Education

B.S. in a related field

5+ years manufacturing experience

3+ years Supervisors management

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Access

AS400

Job description

Fresh Express Salads in Columbia, SC seeks a Production Supervisor to oversee daily production operations, ensure food safety and workplace safety, and drive cost, quality, and service targets across the plant.

You will lead and develop staff, manage schedules, work with the MRP/AS400 system, and coordinate with temp agency to optimize staffing, while maintaining production line balance and responding to daily reports.