Line Supervisor- 2nd shift
Overview: The Production Line Supervisor is responsible for leading, training, and motivating a cross-functional team to safely maximize output while maintaining high-quality standards in a fast-paced beverage manufacturing environment. This role oversees production processes, equipment functionality, and plant cleanliness, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement
Key Responsibilities:
- Excellence in Leadership: Take charge of the production line, lead personnel by example, and manage processes and equipment, while fostering a positive culture of accountability and teamwork.
- Optimize Performance: Ensure equipment operates at peak efficiency, minimizing downtime while meeting or exceeding productivity, safety, and quality targets.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify bottlenecks, creatively problem-solve, and implement solutions to enhance productivity, safety, and quality.
- Coach, Train, and Develop: Guide, mentor, and assist production team members in performing tasks safely, efficiently, and in compliance with standardized procedures—with a special emphasis on developing machine operators to assist in and take over certain maintenance and sanitation functions such as CIPs and preventative maintenance.
- Prioritize Team Well-Being: Place the safety and development of team members above all else, ensuring a positive and disciplined work environment.
- Cross-Team Collaboration and Cohesion: Communicate effectively with Quality, Sanitation, and Maintenance teams to ensure seamless coordination.
- Set and Enforce the Standard: Ensure compliance with all operational and safety protocols, to include Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), PPE compliance, forklift safety, break times, and production and equipment SOPs.
- Supervise and Lead Daily Operations: Lead Shop Floor Meetings, update efficiency boards, ensure all production records are accurately completed.
- Oversee Training: Monitor training progress, maintain documentation, and ensure adherence to job standards and regulatory requirements.
- Problem Solving and Resource Allocation: Assist in and allocate resources to equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, line changeovers, and sanitation as needed.
- Maintain Cleanliness: Ensure work areas meet hygiene standards and leave the production line in better condition than found.
- Other duties as assigned.