Food Manufacturing Supervisor

Job Tittle - Food Manufacturing Supervisor

Job Location - Burnsville, MN

Client Summary -

We leverages expertise in spray drying and drum drying technology to create proprietary and custom powdered ingredient systems and to provide contract spray drying services for food processing companies across North America and beyond.

Position Summary -

We are a small manufacturing company, with 65 employees, of which 40 employees are hourly manufacturing employees, nonunion. We operate on a 4 crew system. Each shift is comprised of 7 to 10 people. This position reports to the Operations Manager, who reports to the Plant Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures the human safety is the top priority in all operations and material handling. Reinforces and supports a culture that truly puts safety first and is imbedded as such in every employee’s mind and actions
• Works to ensure that processes, capabilities, and mindset are developed to provide for a working environment free of food safety issues (with QA Manager)
• Works to ensure that processes, capabilities, and mindset are developed to provide for the production of ingredients that meet or exceed exacting customer requirements; makes recommendations for further improvement (with QA Manager)
• Works to ensure that processes, capabilities, and mindset are developed to provide for a strong performance/results/continuous improvement focus from every employee
• Achieves, and reports, daily performance metrics to include safety, quality, cost, delivery, and plant housekeeping and appearance. Reviews and assesses results against expectations. Conducts investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for incidents and processes that are not performing to expectations
• Contributes to building a highly capable organization, with focus on optimizing:
• Daily work tempo; scheduling
• Training
• Hiring
• Workflow and documentation
• Shift management
• Engagement
• Continuous improvement
• Workforce development
• Timely resolution of employee questions and concerns
• As needed, work with customers in person and by phone on ongoing work, new products, production issues.
• Develops/leads/works/participates/implements continuous improvement projects around safety, quality, cost, capital, etc as assigned
• Builds a healthy working environment where expectations are clear, roles are clear, conflicts are surfaced and resolved, accountability is present, people are good listeners and good communicators, and underperformance is simply not allowed to continue or is accepted
• Able to work beyond normal shift time to ensure smooth transitions, PTO coverage, and completion of job responsibilities
• Other duties, as assigned

Ideal Candidate -

• BS highly desired, but not an absolute requirement; technical or business degree preferred
• 10 or more years related manufacturing experience in a processing industry; food processing experience desirable
• 6 years leadership/management experience in a processing industry (not an assembly line industry), with at least 4 years as a manufacturing Supervisor
• Proficient and fully capable with ERP systems, PM systems, and Microsoft Office
• Proficient and experienced with CI principles, TQM principles, and data analytics
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compensation

• Base salary is a function of education, experience, type of industry, leadership accomplishments.
• Bonus potential is 7.5%, based on company performance within operations.
• Resumes that are "cut and paste" of job descriptions or do not show accomplishments and results in positions held, will not be eligible for consideration.

Thank You