Production Supervisor

Job Title: Production Supervisor HSL

FLSA Exemption Status: Exempt

Status: Salaried

Department: Manufacturing

Reports To: HSL Manager

Job Summary: The Production Supervisor contributes to the success of the company by guiding, overseeing and driving an assigned production team to achieve company goals by communicating expectations, planning, monitoring and evaluating job results. This person must be able to motivate a team and drive efficiencies through their own actions in order to meet customer needs and achieve standards related to cost, line efficiencies, safety, and productivity.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of hourly associates to ensure efficient production of products within their assigned facility.
• Coaches team members on appropriate processes and facilitate problem solving through team work.
• Tracks key performance indicators and anticipates and corrects trends which may have a negative impact on targeted metrics.
• Ensures that safety practices are properly followed, including adherence to proper PPE requirements, forklift safety, role model behavior and maintaining clean and organized work spaces.
• Works cross functionally with other departments to ensure that the lines continue to operate efficiently while minimizing downtime, meeting scheduling deadlines, and managing labor and associate schedules to budget expectations.
• Coordinates with Quality, Customer Operations, Safety and Maintenance to ensure smooth, efficient and continuous production and warehouse operations.
• Encourages, promotes and implements cost-saving strategies and techniques through Lean Manufacturing and other principle programs.
• Ensures that products meet all customer quality specifications before shipping.
• Maintains compliance with all company policies, regulatory requirements, quality standards, HACCP systems, and safety standards.
• Pro-actively seeks to correct unsafe conditions and reports any conditions that are not immediately resolved.
• Maintains physical condition of production floor by planning and implementing new design layouts; inspecting equipment, issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement.
• Continuously promotes motivation among the staff to strive for more efficient and productive manufacturing operations, including modeling and leading high standards of customer service, productivity and efficiency.
• In conjunction with Human Resources, is responsible for interviewing, selection, coaching, training, discipline and performance management of an hourly staff through positive relations, morale building, teamwork, and consistent leadership.
• Coaches and models behaviors for team members on appropriate processes and facilitate problem solving through team work and the promotion of a respectful environment, to include conducting and leading team meetings.
• Follows 5S principles in lab and office areas; embraces and practices continuous improvement program at Bowman Andros.
• Role Model, promote and assist with enforcing all Bowman Andros Products Food Safety policies, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's) and Quality standards for all associates.
• Other duties, as needed.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's Degree or a minimum of 2 years of progressive leadership experience in a production environment preferred.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that may occasionally require hours outside of assigned shift.
• Demonstrated planning, organizing, and project management skills.
• Business acumen with the ability to align HR and Company strategic goals.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Prior knowledge of or ability to learn food safety, manufacturing processes, technologies, or other relevant areas of responsibility of manufacturing.
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Excellent judgment and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
• Ability to learn the company's manufacturing management systems.
• Regular and reliable attendance required.
• Willing to work occasional overtime, as required.

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The Production Supervisor is required to work in the warehouse area, the production floor, and in an office setting. While performing the duties of this job, the associate frequently will be required to sit and stand, as well as being exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme heat and/or cold. The associate continuously works near moving mechanical parts. The associate will be exposed to loud noises from machinery and thus will be required to wear PPE. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but may be high at times due to mechanical equipment noise.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be performed by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel objects, equipment or controls; reach with hands and arms, push, pull; see, talk and /or hear. The associate frequently is required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, sit, crouch, or crawl. The associate is occasionally required to taste, touch or smell.

The associates must frequently travel up and down stairs and other uneven work surfaces. Associates must be able to lift, carry, push and/or pull, and balance up to 75 pounds.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of associates under his/her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.