Production Supervisor

As part of this aseptic, beverage manufacturing facility, a Production Supervisor is critical in effectively directing a team of operators to produce high-quality products safely and efficiently, building a reliable reputation with our brand partners.

In this role, a Production Supervisor is responsible for leading the blending, processing and/or packing of aseptic and/or extended shelf-life beverage products.

Role Responsibilities

• Leads area-specific production process.
• Understands products and quality requirements, to effectively manage production performance and KPIs within labor and operating expenses budget.
• Assists in establishing and meeting objectives for safety, product quality, productivity, reliability and operating
  costs.
• Creates process orders, batch, and blend documents, create shipments, etc. in INFOR M3.
• Maintains and update processes documentation through the company systems.
• Assist investigations relating to production and quality related incidents to identify and implement corrective actions.
• Responsible for following beverage safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing
  responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting
  safety/regulatory concerns to the Production.
• Ownership of communication within production area and across functions.
• Responsible for Safety Incident documentation and investigation and accountable for
  reducing safety risks in area through proactively identifying risks (behavior and facility
  issues) and ensuring quick resolution.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse, and other production personnel to ensure information is properly shared and production remains on schedule.
• Assists with special projects and other duties as assigned or needed.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Organizes and facilitates work team meetings, initiates, and implements projects, and
  improves team communication and engagement.
• Organizes and facilitates team meetings to educate and promote continuous improvement.
• Responsible for effective team member performance management and development.
• Develops and coaches the team to solve operational issues.
• Assist in new employee training, refresher training and basic safety training.
• Provide vacation and illness coverage for operators.

Education

Experience & Skills

• Must possess at least 3 years of leadership experience including hiring, employee development, performance coaching, and day-to-day supervision of multiple lines in a compliance driven environment within a highly regulatory production environment.
• Demonstration of strong management and leadership abilities in motivating diverse
  manufacturing team.
• Experience in production batch record review, Enterprise Resource Planning system, investigation of non-conformance, root cause analysis and change control management
• Experience with lean manufacturing or similar continuous process improvement training is
  preferred. Strong orientation for continuous improvement.
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills are a must
• Must be able to handle multiple projects in a timely manner.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Able to work under pressure in a very fast paced environment
• Experience in sterile manufacturing and an understanding of the sterilization process and its impact to products.
• Knowledge of beverage packaging principles, food industry quality and food safety
  requirements, ingredient performance and interactions with equipment, sanitation
  procedures, statistical process control, critical control points, and new product scale-up
  dynamics preferred.
• Experience in Good Manufacturing Practices preferred.
• Experience with SQF preferred.
• INFOR M3 experience a plus.

Physical Requirements

• Able to lift up to 50lbs.
• Must be able to work 10/12-hour shift(s)
• Must follow GMP Policy - wear company issued shirt, hat, safety glasses, earplugs and hairnet in production areas.
• May be required to work outside of schedule shift to support business needs
• Must be able to work with equipment that contains electromagnetic components.