Production Supervisor – Day Shift | Food Production & Packaging | Multiple OpeningsThis Jobot Job is hosted by: Amanda Ahmad
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Salary: $65,000 - $85,000 per year
A bit about us:Founded nearly two decades ago and based in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, we are a leading producer of natural, certified organic, and antibiotic-free poultry products. We are committed to producing high-quality food through responsible farming, ethical practices, strong food-safety programs, and transparent operating standards. Our chickens are raised on family farms, fed a vegetarian diet, and never given antibiotics, added hormones, or steroids.
Why join us?- Day-Shift Opportunity
- Multiple Openings: Join a growing operation currently hiring two to three Production Supervisors
- Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Financial Benefits: 401(k), retirement plan, and flexible spending account
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Leadership Opportunity: Lead, train, and develop approximately 25–50 production employees
- Operational Impact: Directly influence production efficiency, product quality, labor utilization, yields, safety, and continuous improvement
- Career Growth: Gain exposure to multiple production departments, including tray pack, deboning, processing, whole-bird packaging, and evisceration
- Established Organization: Join a food manufacturer with its operations based in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania
Job DetailsKey Responsibilities and Duties
- Supervise production activities within an assigned food-production or packaging department.
- Coordinate production-line activities to complete daily production orders.
- Lead, mentor, train, and motivate approximately 25–50 production employees.
- Maintain product-quality standards and ensure compliance with customer specifications.
- Monitor the efficient use of employees, raw materials, equipment, and production resources.
- Track and report production yields, operational efficiencies, and labor utilization.
- Identify opportunities to improve materials, processes, production flow, and employee performance.
- Support lean manufacturing and Total Quality Management initiatives.
- Ensure production processes and finished products comply with GMP requirements.
- Follow the facility’s HACCP plan and maintain accurate HACCP records.
- Coordinate with maintenance personnel and outside vendors to minimize equipment downtime.
- Ensure production equipment and work areas are maintained and operating efficiently.
- Build effective working relationships with plant management and USDA representatives.
- Stay current on poultry-processing and food-production technologies and systems.
- Ensure compliance with USDA, OSHA, EEO, and other applicable government regulations.
- Communicate performance expectations and operating standards to production employees.
- Recognize employee and team accomplishments and address performance concerns.
- Train employees and enforce safety regulations and workplace practices.
- Manage department staffing, production-line coverage, and attendance.
- Conduct team meetings and employee training sessions.
- Maintain accurate training, production, food-safety, and employee documentation.
- Support production areas that may include tray pack, deboning, processing, whole-bird packaging, evisceration, and related departments.
Qualifications Needed
- Associate degree in Poultry Science, Animal Science, Agriculture, Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Minimum of two years of proven production supervisory experience.
- Experience supervising employees in food production, food processing, or packaging is required.
- Poultry-processing experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience leading approximately 25–50 production or packaging employees.
- Working knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, product-quality standards, and manufacturing safety requirements.
- Experience managing staffing, production-line coverage, attendance, employee training, and performance.
- Experience monitoring production yields, efficiencies, labor utilization, downtime, and material usage.
- Exposure to lean manufacturing, Total Quality Management, or other continuous-improvement programs.
- Proven ability to coordinate production-line activities and meet daily production requirements.
- Ability and willingness to learn and perform the jobs within the assigned department.
- Ability to work changing shifts when production demands require additional coverage.
- Strong reading, writing, mathematical, and analytical skills.
- Basic proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Ability to spend the entire shift standing or walking.
- Ability to work in a wet, humid, and cold food-processing environment with exposure to animal by-products and feathers.
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