Food Production Supervisor jobs in Melbourne, FL

Description

Position Summary:  

Supervises all facets of production operations including processes and people. Continuously improves operations and ensures a clean, safe workplace.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for production operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.

• Maintains standards of health and safety, hygiene, housekeeping, and security in the work environment.
• Completes production requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; monitors work results and executes corrective actions when required.
• Maintains production staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training new employees.
• Monitors staff performance and progress.
• Motivates, organizes, and encourages at the individual and team levels to ensure set productivity targets are met.
• Makes sound decisions using facts and data that are in the best interest of Maverick.
• Holds all individuals, including him/herself, accountable for delivering results and satisfying internal and external customers.
• Plans and executes changes in support of model changes, capacity and/or schedule modifications.
• Assists in developing and maintaining departmental work instructions for all tasks and utilizes them appropriately.
• Maintains/improves productivity, efficiency and performance by reviewing reports and statistics and making appropriate adjustments
• Recommends measures to improve quality of service, increasing efficiency of department including performance of personnel and equipment.
• Continuously improves production operations through the use of lean enterprise practices.
• Explores options for internal and external activities having impacts on the department and/or business.
• Understands hazardous materials and the proper and safe handling of such ensuring all proper policies and procedures are followed.
• Shows initiative, courage, integrity and bases decisions on what is best for the company, not the individual.
• Identifies and develops team members to be future leaders.
• Leads by example.
• Identifies areas for personal growth and seeks opportunities for ongoing education.

• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Supervisory skills and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret business documents and data.
• Knowledge of general business computer software and aptitude to learn new software applications.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Associate degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or five years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills:  

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations in English. 
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, electronic mail, procedures, and performance documents, as examples, in English.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to effectively conduct meetings in person and with technology assistance.

Mathematical Skills:  

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. 
• Ability to utilize data to make business decisions. 

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands:

• The ability to lift and move heavy objects up to 50lbs.

• Bending, lifting, twisting continuously throughout the day.
• Being able to stand/walk for a possible 8 plus hour workday.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job (ie; heat/cold, dust/dampness, height; chemical; noise; resin;) PPE requirements are included. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Safety glasses must be always worn.