Responsibilities
Employee Safety:
- Maintain safety/ergonomic programs to ensure a safe working environment.
- Perform daily walk around visual inspection for the department to observe for unsafe acts or conditions and take immediate action where necessary.
- Train employees to ensure safe operating procedures are followed, including lock-out/tag-out.
Product Quality/Food Safety:
- Maintain desired product quality and safety.
- Maintain adequate knowledge of product and equipment to ensure ability to direct employees to perform the job properly.
- Monitor daily to ensure HACCP and USDA standards are being met. Take corrective action where necessary.
Employee Relations:
- Provide leadership to Crew Leaders and hourly employees.
- Conduct line meetings to address questions and concerns.
Maintain or Exceed Goals on Yields and Efficiencies:
- Work weekly with Operations Managers and/or supervisors to become familiar with yields and variances, methods of calculations, typical problem areas, and methods of corrections and improvement.
- Communicate with employees daily to discuss work assignments.
Continuous Improvement of Product Costs:
- Perform daily checks to ensure that standards are being met.
- Take necessary steps to ensure downtime is maintained at the lowest possible level, trace and analyze key product result measures for improvement opportunities.
Job Requirements:
* Bachelor’s degree preferred in any discipline, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
* Ability to gain a working knowledge of SAP
* Excellent analytical and technical skills, including a strong knowledge of fundamental math skills required to compute and understand yields, efficiencies, etc.
* Knowledge of Internet, Word, Excel and other processing software.
* Ability to handle a very fast paced work environment. Experience in a food processing and/or manufacturing environment is preferred.
* Must have excellent organizational skills.
* Must be able to exhibit confidence in self and others; Inspires and motivates others to perform well.
* Must be dependable, able to follow instructions, and respond to management direction.
EOE/Vets/Disability