Food Production Supervisor

Bonney Staffing has partnered with a local company that is known as the oldest and most experienced processor of lobster in the US. Maine lobster and local ground fish keep this company busy year-round producing the best that Maine has to offer. This company sells to major supermarket chains, wholesalers, importers, and distributors. Their quality, safety, and service is evidenced by their regular certifications with Global Food Safety Initiative benchmarked audits, USDC, FDA, and other third party auditors. This company continues to set the bar! 

The Production Supervisor job in Portland, Maine is responsible for training, evaluating, developing and guiding workers in the performance of their job; motivating staff's job performance and creating a team spirit in the department. This individual will also be responsible for scheduling activities of the HR department, controlling the workflow, product quality, and GMP’s of the department. They will act as a two-way communicator between management and operatives, reporting to management regarding performance of team and goals, as well as making recommendations for continual improvement of the department. This is a full-time, day shift position.

Production Supervisor Qualifications: 

• Associates Degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent work experience

• English Fluency & Literacy

• Demonstrates basic math proficiency

• High physical activity performing activities in a food processing facility - Requiring strength, agility, stamina, and speed to occasionally lift, push, and pull up to 50 lbs

• May need to issue verbal and or written warnings - prior food production management experience is a must
   

Required Skills: 

•  Able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and production procedures

• Able to perform basic math including addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, ratios, percentages, and temperature conversions

• Competent in Microsoft Excel

• Experience with Planning - demonstrates strong process organization skills and time management abilities

• Ethics - Treats people with respect, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, works ethically and with integrity

• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management directives, takes responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments, completes tasks on time

• Team Work - Builds morale and group commitments to goals and objectives, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team environment.

• Oral communication - speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations. Listens and gets clarification

• Attendance/Punctuality - is consistently at work and on time for work and meetings

• Initiative - Takes independent actions and calculated risks, looks for and takes advantage of opportunities

• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, applies feedback to improve performance

• Quantity - Meets productivity standards, completes work in a timely manner, strives to increase productivity, works quickly

• Safety and security - complies with safety and security procedures, determines appropriate action beyond guidelines, uses equipment and materials appropriately.

Production Supervisor Details: 

• Schedule: Full time, 1st shift 

• Pay Rate: $69k - $74k/year

• Start Date: ASAP

Production Supervisor Benefits:

• Benefits offered by the employer once hired permanently

  • Vacation/PTO/Holiday
  • Medical 
  • Bonuses based on company goals and successes

• Ask us about our $$Referral Bonus Program$$

If you believe you are a qualified candidate for our Production Supervisor role please apply or contact us today!