Production Superintendent

Designated Backup: Manager, Manufacturing

• Provides support and guidance to Production Supervisors
• Communicate with Production Scheduler, Sanitation, Warehouse, and Maintenance Department's to assure the most efficient use of equipment, materials, and personnel.
• Assign employees to specific areas and tasks to maximize production efficiencies and clearly communicate expectations.
• Review processing specifications and assure missing or incorrect information is updated. Including equipment and line set-ups, yield, rate, crewing assignments, and special notes.
• Assure all required paperwork is completed and turned-in as required. Includes but are not limited to; raw material usage, finished product production, downtime, production time, personnel counts, HACCP paperwork, accident reports, work orders, and time and attendance reports.
• Assist with projects for other departments such as R&D, standard updates with Accounting, water and energy conservation with Maintenance, etc.
• Act as trainer for specific formal training classes including operator's training, HACCP, SPC, GMP, etc.
• Participate in Physical Inventory when required.
• Assurance of up-to-date, cost effective manufacturing of products through increased efficiency, quality standards, and company objectives.
• Responsible for managing staffing levels and performance within the production department.
• Thoroughly understand and comply with the collective agreement and local labor laws, ex; including HR, as well as, all governmental regulations to ensure a safe & healthy working environment for themselves and those they supervise. Monitor areas for Safety and assure safe working habits and conditions.
• This position is required to provide assistance to Research & Development (R&D) in the processing of new products. A basic knowledge of cuttings and processing specifications is required in this area.
• Managers are responsible for developing the proper attitudes toward safety and health in them and in those they supervise, and for promoting that all operations are performed with the utmost regard for the safety and health of all personnel involved including themselves.
• Qualification's:
• Bachelor's degree is desired
• At least Four (4) years of manufacturing supervisory experience (food manufacturing preferred)
• Management and Supervision courses and/or training.

• Basic knowledge and understanding of both Scheduling procedures and costing of products is required to ensure the production of products in an efficient & cost-effective manner.

• Ability to analyze and solve problems
• Ability to understand and evaluate costs involved with production
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information in a clear and understandable way
• Experience with HACCP
• Willingness to obtain USDC HACCP Certification
• Willingness to obtain and maintain Red Cross CPR/First Aid Certification

Plant Environment:
The plant work environment will expose the employee to loud noise, food grade dust & odors, moving & vibrating machinery, heavy equipment, powered industrial trucks, heights, traffic, anhydrous ammonia, oil and electricity. The employee may be exposed to adverse weather conditions including extreme cold, heat, rain, snow, dust, smoke and odors. Flexibility of work hours. Ability to work on feet for extended periods of time if needed.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, sit, talk, listen, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to use hands to handle, operate, and feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to operate a motor vehicle to travel to off-site meetings. The employee must have visual acuity sufficient to operate a motor vehicle and digital camera, as well as other office and position equipment. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Employee must be able to hear and speak clearly in order to communicate with clients, coworkers, employees and vendors.

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.

High Liner Foods (USA), Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, High Liner Foods (USA), Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. 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.