Production Supervisor

Company: Kayem Foods, Inc.

Job Title: Production Supervisor 2nd Shift

Location: Chelsea, MA

SUMMARY:

Manages and coordinates the work of production team/s. Carries out supervisory responsibility in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees. Additional focus areas include employee safety, continuous improvement activities, product quality and food safety.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for team compliance on product quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Reviews production schedules to ascertain projected workload, product types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations.
• Prepares operational schedules and coordinates manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meets specifications, including staffing of production lines and areas.
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance gaps to ensure timely production of quality product.
• Observes workflow and machine utilization to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization.
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes workers to ensure compliance with standards.
• Motivate and lead team members to achieve production goals. Serves as our team members immediate resource for questions and concerns.
• Complies, stores, and retrieves production data.
• Meets with work teams regularly to discuss past results and work to resolve current gaps and issues.
• Promotes and maintains the Continuous improvement initiatives which emphasizes employee engagement, team building and continuous improvement.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:

COMPETENCIES:

Leadership: Capable of influencing team members to work towards achieving, organizational and individual goals. Employee Development & Coaching: Motivates, coaches, develops and trains team members. Operational Effectiveness: Ability to manage the day to day activities using personnel and resources to the best effect

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three or one to three years related supervisory experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. College graduate preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of managers or employees of organizations. Bi-lingual in Spanish or Portuguese a plus.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to perform basic arithmetic calculations such as machine speeds, pounds per hour, and to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, and volume.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES & REGISTRATIONS:

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Computer proficient with ability to present functional specifications to the IS Department.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to refrigerated and wet conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.