Production Supervisor

Position Overview:

A growing and reputable food manufacturer is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead manufacturing operations within a fast-paced production environment. This role is responsible for overseeing daily production activities, ensuring employee safety, maintaining product quality standards, and driving operational performance across the facility. The Production Supervisor will play a key role in leading frontline employees while serving as a critical link between plant leadership and hourly teams.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who thrives in a manufacturing environment and enjoys developing people, improving processes, and delivering results. This individual will be expected to create a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement while ensuring production goals are consistently achieved.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of production employees, providing ongoing guidance, feedback, and support to drive performance and engagement.
• Create a positive and accountable work environment that promotes teamwork, communication, respect, and operational excellence.
• Direct daily production activities to ensure schedules are met while maintaining safety, quality, and efficiency standards.
• Monitor and adjust staffing levels, labor allocation, and production priorities to optimize operational performance.
• Conduct shift start-up meetings, communicate plant objectives, review key performance indicators, and reinforce company expectations.
• Ensure compliance with all food safety, quality assurance, GMP, HACCP, sanitation, environmental, and workplace safety requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse, Planning, Procurement, and Engineering teams to support operational goals and resolve production issues.
• Analyze production metrics including throughput, labor efficiency, waste, yield, downtime, and schedule attainment to identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective action efforts related to safety incidents, quality concerns, customer complaints, and operational disruptions.
• Support employee onboarding, training, cross-training, and succession planning initiatives to strengthen workforce capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity improvements, waste reduction, cost savings, process standardization, and operational reliability.
• Partner with maintenance teams to improve equipment uptime, reduce downtime, and support preventative maintenance programs.
• Ensure production records, shift reports, labor tracking, and operational documentation are completed accurately and on time.
• Actively participate in plant leadership meetings and contribute to strategic operational planning efforts.
• Promote a culture where safety, food quality, customer service, and employee engagement remain top priorities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent manufacturing leadership experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of 2 years of supervisory, leadership, or management experience within food manufacturing, beverage manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, ingredients, dairy, bakery, protein, or related manufacturing industries.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate hourly production teams in a high-volume, fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of food safety regulations, GMPs, HACCP programs, sanitation practices, quality systems, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience managing production schedules, labor planning, employee performance, and operational metrics.
• Demonstrated success driving employee engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, TPM, Kaizen, or other operational excellence methodologies is highly preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, conflict resolution, and organizational skills.
• Experience utilizing ERP systems, manufacturing software, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Flexibility to support varied shifts, weekends, and operational demands as needed.