2nd Shift Production Supervisor

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

* 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 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, timely and cost-effective manufacture of products through increased efficiency, quality standards, and company objectives.

* Responsible for the hiring, termination, and disciplinary actions required with production employees.

* Keep current with all new labor laws, including HR, as well as all governmental regulations etc. 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 aid 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 themselves and those they supervise, and for promoting that all operations are performed with the utmost regard for safety and health.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree is desired

* At least four (4) years of manufacturing supervisory experience

* Sufficient Managerial and Supervisory courses and/or training

* Basic knowledge and understanding of both scheduling procedures and costing of products is required to ensure efficiency.

* Ability to analyze and solve problems

* Ability to understand and evaluate costs involved with production

* Ability to communicate with employees with very limited English skills

* Experience with Food Manufacturing is ideal

* Experience with and ability to obtain HACCP Certification is desirable

* Obtain and maintain Red Cross CPR/First Aid Certification

Office Environment: The noise level in the office work environment is moderately quiet.

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 sufficient visual acuity 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 to communicate with clients, coworkers, employees and vendors.

Travel:

* Expected travel for this role is 0-5%

Other Duties:

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.

AAP / EEO Statement:

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.

All employees will embrace High Liner Foods' safety and quality principles. Working together employees will ensure that activities and operations are performed in compliance with the Company's "Code of Conduct".