What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor, 2nd shift position at Brakebush Chicken?
Title: Production Supervisor, 2nd shift, 2nd Shift Req ID: 6394
City, State: Irving, TX
Reports to: Production Manager
Classification: Exempt
Job Description
Summary: The Production Supervisor is responsible for the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality product, consistently high yields, and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" approach, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (e.g. other Production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.
Essential Functions:
Work Environment: Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.
Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.
Position Type: This is an exempt position. The shift varies: first, second, third or floater. Some Saturday work required.
Travel: Travel is not required.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive
listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties,
responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.
Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.
City, State: Irving, TX
Reports to: Production Manager
Classification: Exempt
Job Description
Summary: The Production Supervisor is responsible for the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality product, consistently high yields, and line efficiency. Utilizing a "One Team, One Mission" approach, this position collaborates with and supports the efforts of multiple departments (e.g. other Production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Sanitation), to achieve food/personal safety and minimize downtime, inedible, seconds and excessive costs.
Essential Functions:
- Use effective supervision, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet/exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.
- Ensure compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF.
- Coordinates and guides team through production situations e.g. startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.
- Facilitates the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments. Identifies areas for individual/team development.
- Improves quality, yields and throughput on their designated line.
- Demonstrated three years supervisory or leadership skills with a food-processing or manufacturing company leading a production team OR a bachelor’s degree with a prior Food Science or Poultry Science (or closely related) internship.
- Demonstrated production knowledge.
- Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a teamfocused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.
- Proven time-management and organizational/office skills including competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.
- Poultry facility experience
- Supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Water Jet Cutting, Further Processing
- experience preferred)
- Experience with SAP or Infinity
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
- Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR
Work Environment: Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.
Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.
Position Type: This is an exempt position. The shift varies: first, second, third or floater. Some Saturday work required.
Travel: Travel is not required.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive
listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties,
responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.
Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.
