Production Supervisor- Grain

City : Destrehan State : Louisiana (US-LA) Country : United States (US) Requisition Number : 48725

A Day in the Life:

Responsible for the safe and efficient supervision of day-to-day assigned Grain operations department shift. Support the Production Manager in monitoring and improving plant productivity.

Position Details: 12-hour rotating shift (18-hour week/36 hour week).

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Cultivate a safety culture where unsafe acts are not tolerated and employees and management have a common goal of zero injuries. • Oversee assigned department production shift activities (crush, refinery, packaging, warehouse, boiler house, and/or elevator) to ensure operations are running at the highest levels of efficiency. • Commitment to supply safe food, maintain a food safety culture within the site, continually improve the site's food safety management system; and comply with customer and regulatory requirements. • Ensure assigned shift is compliant with sanitation requirements. May provide support in the monthly sanitation inspections and implementation of any corrective actions as necessary. • Track and report shift productivity improvements. • Approve daily reports and KPRs for the assigned shift. • Report and trouble shoot operations issues. • Provide input to the Production Manager and/or Plant Manager to plan annual shutdowns. • Support Process Safety Management programs, where applicable. • Work with the Safety/Environmental Manager to ensure compliance of assigned shift in all aspects. • Help develop and drive Operations Excellence Plans to meet safety, quality and production goals and show continuous improvement in assigned shift. • Support the continuous improvement activities and act as a change agent for any changes that occur in the assigned shift. • Monitor KPR’s and help develop plans to bring assigned shift in line with Operations Excellence goals. • Periodically participate in the daily production meetings to remain informed and ensure that the assigned shift operations activities are aligned. • Participate in personnel investigations and recommend corrective actions as necessary. • Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, chemical engineering or related field or equivalent progressive experience of 3+ years in soybean crushing, oil refining, oil packaging operations, or related and applicable activities in support of industrial operations is required. • Proficiency with basic computer skills, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word and other technical software packages, as needed. • Ability to work odd hours, weekends and rotating shift schedule required.