What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor -12-hour Day Shift position at BestCo?
We believe being healthy should not require tradeoffs. SCN BestCo is a leading innovator, developer and manufacturer of Vitamin, Mineral & Supplement (VMS), Over-the-Counter (OTC) and prebiotics / probiotics in enjoyable forms such as gummies, lozenges and chews. With over 50 years of excellence, our team leads the way in changing how consumers make healthier choices. With unique food science expertise and proprietary processes, we've pioneered many firsts. Our passion to create new to the world products has guided and continues to be core to our mission of making health and wellness more enjoyable. Come join us and become a part of our winning formula!
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Effectively communicate and coach shift teams to achieve department safety, quality, and production goals, including changeover, cleaning, processing, and packaging activities.
- Ensure compliance with all FDA, OSHA and EPA requirements.
- Ensures right first-time production through ownership of the team's activities, ensuring products are produced according to batch record instructions and standard operating procedures
- Demonstrate ownership of and adherence to facility and equipment standards
- Organize the shift team to provide optimal use of personnel and equipment
- Hold direct reports accountable.
- Conduct performance evaluations, monitor compensation and overtime
- Motivate and communicate in order to maintain good morale and adherence to standard work
- Conduct thorough shift exchange with both supervisors and operators
- Follow weekly production schedule, predict production start and finish times, coordinate raw material and component delivery with the warehouse, and order production batch records
- Conduct routine housekeeping inspections and observe team behaviors to ensure consistency with standard operating procedures.
- Prepare for and participate in both internal and external safety and cGMP audits
- Lead investigations into safety, quality, and production downtime events, determine root cause, and develop effective corrective and preventive actions
- Develop and revise standard operating procedures.
- Communicate cross-functionally with safety, quality, and maintenance support leaders, escalating problems in the plant that can impact safety, quality or productivity and propose solutions while demonstrating due diligence to fully understand problems and communicate clearly
- Collect and analyze relevant production statistics using data spreadsheets.
- Conduct recruiting interviews; recommend hires, promotions, transfers and discharges.
- Cross-train in other production areas in an effort to be able to cover during vacations and absences of other Supervisors.
- Proactively manages shift to meet labor and scrap cost standards.
- Ability to quickly learn technical processes and machinery to assist with real time troubleshooting and decision making for direct reports.
- Other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibility :
Supervise 15 - 25 team members
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS :
Preferred Qualifications :
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
