Production Supervisor - Second Shift
About this role
Business Unit Overview
Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food .
Location Description
Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.
Responsibilities
POSITION SUMMARY: The Production Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products ensuring adherence to safety, quality, quantity specifications, and cost.
Key skills include people management, operational and sanitation knowledge, training ability, developing expectations, driving results with data, and follow-through. The Production Supervisor ensures compliance with all company and regulatory processes, including but not limited to Safety, Food Safety, Human Resources, and job-specific requirements. They work to continuously improve production and sanitation best practices through training, standards development, data analysis, escalations, and reporting.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: •Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development. Ensures a safe and healthy workplace. •Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control. •Adheres to safe work practices, GMPs, and maintains product quality. Reports any conditions affecting food safety, quality, or personnel safety to management. •Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks •Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices. •Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations. •Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services. •Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs. •Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production. •Participates on plant safety team. •Always ensures regulatory compliance.