Fresh Pork Superintendent

Fresh Pork Superintendent

Location: Hatfield, PA
Hours: 5:00 AM – 3:00 PM (flexible based on production needs) | Saturday coverage as needed
Relocation Assistance Available

Why Join Clemens Food Group?

At Clemens Food Group, we take pride in delivering high-quality pork products through leadership in food safety, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. As a company built on integrity, ethics, and stewardship, we invest in our people and offer clear career progression. This is an opportunity to lead, develop teams, and directly impact production efficiency, compliance, and yield in a state-of-the-art pork processing facility.

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Fresh Pork Superintendent, you will oversee cutting, deboning, and packaging operations, ensuring efficient meat yield, quality assurance, and adherence to USDA and HACCP standards. You’ll lead supervisors and frontline teams in meeting production goals while implementing continuous improvement initiatives. Your leadership will drive operational excellence, maximize plant efficiency, and ensure worker and food safety.

What You’ll Do

• Drive operational performance – Manage staffing, production scheduling, and daily performance metrics.
• Lead a high-performing team – Train and mentor supervisors, ensuring teams are engaged and meeting production goals.
• Maintain compliance & safety – Enforce USDA, HACCP, SSOP, and worker safety protocols to uphold industry standards.
• Cross-functional collaboration – Work closely with FSQA, sales, maintenance, and shipping to ensure seamless operations.

What Makes This Role Exciting?

• Impact-driven leadership – Your expertise in pork processing and deboning operations will directly enhance plant efficiency and product quality.
• Continuous improvement focus – Use data-driven problem-solving to innovate and streamline processes.
• Relocation support – We welcome top talent from across the country and provide assistance for a smooth transition.

What We’re Looking For

• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred (Meat Science, Food Science, Animal Science, or related field). Equivalent work experience accepted.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years in pork processing, deboning, or meat production leadership.
• Proven leadership experience: Track record of managing supervisors and frontline production teams.

Skills & Mindset

• Meat processing expertise – Deep understanding of cutting, deboning, and processing best practices.
• Problem-solver – Use data-driven decision-making to address production challenges.
• Strong communicator – Ability to bridge frontline operations with plant leadership.
• Resilient & committed – Ability to adapt to production demands and handle operational challenges head-on.
• Financial acumen: Experience in budgeting, cost control, and yield efficiency improvements.

Your Future at Clemens

This isn’t just a job—it’s a leadership opportunity with a defined career path. Many of our superintendents move into Director of Operations roles or senior leadership positions. We invest in career development, mentorship, and training, ensuring that your skills and leadership abilities grow alongside the company.

Application Note:
Clemens Food Group is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.