SR. Production Supervisor at Athens Foods – Brookpark, Ohio

Job Title: Production Sr. Supervisor (Business Unit Supervisor) FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports To: Production Manager Pay Grade: 28

Department: Bites Last Revision: 2021

Back-Up Group Lead & VP, Operations

PURPOSE

Supervises, assists and coaches a department of 20-30 employees in the timely production of the highest quality products. Fills in for employees while on break and ensures equipment is running properly.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Lead the Bites department through a multi-year period of substantial growth, commissioning new equipment, including adding multiple shifts, to maximize productivity, yield, and quality while decreasing product cost.

• Build lean/continuous improvement culture supported by data analysis/insights and lead continuous improvement efforts designed to assist accomplishing above goal.

• Collaborate with Production Manager to ensure customer demand is satisfied while simultaneously minimizing finished goods inventory levels.

• Collaborate with Supply Chain Manager to ensure raw material availability to support planned production while simultaneously minimizing raw material inventory levels.

• Collaborate with Quality to ensure exceptional product quality and adherence to all food safety policies.

• Collaborate with Maintenance to maximize line uptime through effective coordination of preventive and reactive maintenance activities, utilizing CMMS (MaintainX) for work orders and PMs.

• Collaborate with OEMs on equipment failures and inefficiencies to ensure equipment is operating at target rate.

• Build high-performing team through hiring, directing, providing feedback, coaching/training, creating accountability, and performing staff performance reviews according to company performance management program.

• Follows all guidelines with good housekeeping measures, OSHA standards, health code regulations, Safety, GMP’s, and Food Safety Policies.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS listed below are indicative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be successful in this position.

Education, Training and/or Experience

1. High School diploma or equivalent.

2. Minimum 5 - 7 years’ production experience.

3. Minimum 2 - 3 years’ supervisory experience.

4. Basic knowledge of employment laws and practices and familiarity with industry common practices.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Personal Characteristics

1. Basic experience with Microsoft Office applications, and use of intranet and internet.

2. Well-developed problem solving, team building and staff development skills.

3. Ability to demonstrate a high attention to detail and good follow-up skills.

4. Ability to organize work, engage in a variety of tasks simultaneously and consistently meet deadlines.

5. Able to follow instructions with minimal supervision.

6. Ability to read and interpret technical documents such as chemical labels, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

7. Moderate mechanical aptitude.

8. High degree of initiative and independent judgment.

9. Ability to express self effectively and concisely, both verbally and in writing.

10. Must be self-motivated, proactive and solution focused.

11. Ability to tactfully and effectively deal with public and staff in a personable and professional manner.

12. Maintains a high level of energy and a consistent positive attitude.

Certifications, Licenses, registrations

None.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Associates degree, some college coursework or equivalent amount of experience in supervisory role.

2. Training or courses in “training the trainer,” communication, identifying drug use, and other fields that would aid in this role.

3. Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or higher

4. Familiarity with GMP’s, HACCP, & SQF

5. Experience in food manufacturing environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS described here are representative of those that must be routinely met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

1. Nature of work requires an ability to operate standard business office equipment and industrial equipment.

2. Requires walking, sitting, bending, pushing, pulling and lifting up to 100 lbs. regularly and independently.

3. Majority of time spent standing to perform job duties.

4. Nature of work requires depth perception, normal vision, normal finger dexterity and ability to crouch, reach, hear, communicate and exchange information at normal speaking levels.

5. May require occasional evening and weekend hours as business needs demand.

6. Requires participation and attendance at organization sponsored events and meetings.

WORKING CONDITIONS described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

1. Majority of work performed in a food production environment and a general office environment.

2. Regular exposure to hazardous chemicals, above normal levels of noise, heat and humidity.

3. Requires use of sanitation and personal hygiene items as needed.

4. Requires use of personal protective or safety equipment.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of Athens Foods, Inc. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the job holder’s responsibility.