What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor - Freeze Dried position at Muenster Milling Company, LLC?
Muenster Milling is hiring for a dedicated and experienced Production Supervisor at our newest Freeze-Dried facility in Denton, Texas. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the daily operations in the Freeze-Dried room, including collaborating with all functional areas within the business to drive continuous improvement to achieve key KPIs, best organize workflows and analyze the efficiency of manufacturing processes, under the supervision of the Production Manager. This role requires strong leadership skills, a commitment to operational excellence, and the ability to problem-solve in a fast-paced environment.
This is a hands-on position working alongside their team and not an office-based role. This role requires supervision of 8 employees. This is a full-time salary exempt position to support our production expansion. The expansion will include a shift in our working schedule and the proposed schedule and expectation is that you can manage a team on this schedule: 2-2-3 shift (Week 1: Monday/Tuesday working, Wednesday/Thursday off, Friday/Saturday/Sunday working; Week 2: Monday/Tuesday off, Wednesday/Thursday working, Friday/Saturday/Sunday off).
You will train alongside the current Production leaders supporting our current daytime shift starting at 7:00am, Monday-Friday, with some Saturdays. Flexibility to work overtime, weekends and holidays is required per production schedule.
Company Perks
- Discounted Dog/Cat Food and Treats
- Competitive Pay with PTO (and 10 company paid holidays)
- Comprehensive Benefits included a low-cost medical plan option
- 401(k) program with 100% immediate vesting
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage, oversee team responsible for production processes including oversight of the daily workflow, scheduling, responsibility alignment, and completion of assignments to meet production output.
- Leading team and facilitate the organization’s strategy for cultivating a fully engaged workforce through training, engagement, motivating, and contributing to team effort.
- Provides performance oversight, safety monitoring, and constructive and timely performance feedback.
- Develops production plans and procedures while driving production performance by establishing daily, weekly, and monthly goals, to ensure that internal and external customer needs are met.
- Maintains knowledge of processes and equipment, troubleshoots issues that arise, notifies maintenance department of equipment problems, and ensures that employees comply with applicable safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Regularly performs verification of production output, quality, volume, and efficiencies according to specifications while preparing analysis to management as needed.
- Create policies or procedures for production activities while identifying issues and opportunities for improvements while partnering with related functional areas to develop new strategies to streamline processes and reduce cost by maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of product movement between manufacturing, warehousing, and ultimately, customer delivery.
- Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
- Ensures all required paperwork is completed and signed correctly.
- Ensures that employees comply with applicable safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Maintains a safe and clean work environment while ensuring quality, quantity, customer satisfaction, and financial commitments are met.
- Participates and owns portion of recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Personal Characteristics:
- 3 years of experience working in a production or warehouse environment, food production highly preferred.
- Thorough understanding of or the ability to quickly learn production operations and machinery.
- Excellent supervisory and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical, oral and written communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Must be extremely organized, detail oriented, able to multi-task, and prioritize multiple projects/tasks.
- Ability to communicate clearly, professionally, and effectively
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of Food safety and sanitation protocols and procedures
- Ability to work under pressure and make effective decisions
- Ability and willingness to work in a team environment as well as with limited supervision
- Commitment to complete work within established time parameters and within budget while flexible enough to meet special project deadlines as required
- As needed, must be able to work all shifts, weekends, holidays as required in emergencies and all other times as needed or assigned.
Desired but not Required:
- Food manufacturing processing experience a plus
- Bilingual – Spanish/English is a plus.
All Employee Responsibilities:
- Participates in a productive and supportive work environment by cooperating with all team members throughout office and production departments.
- Address and/or escalates to appropriate parties of any failures to comply with financial controls. Works to continuously develop and improve performance of job duties and contributions to organization.
- Performs job duties and other related duties for the organization as assigned.
- Must have reliable transportation and ability to travel. If driving on behalf of Muenster Milling employee must have valid state driver’s license and provide current proof of liability insurance.
Food Safety & Quality Responsibilities:
- Follow the proper hand-washing, sanitization, cleanliness, dress and grooming requirements.
- Adhere to SQF, FSMA, Sanitation, GMP’s and HACCP requirements.
- Follow the Company’s procedures and processes for food safety and worker safety.
Work Environment:
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud in plant.
Work Location / Travel:
Equal Opportunity Employer
This document describes the current position. It is not an employment contract. Our Company reserves the right to modify Position duties or Position descriptions at its discretion.
