Aseptic Production Supervisor-Night Shift

Leadership & Supervision -

· Provide leadership and supervision for the assigned production shift and associated personnel.

· Supervise, coordinate and monitor activities of workers engaged in processing and production.

· Mobilize plant personnel to facilitate the achievement of plant objectives.

· Effectively motivate, train and communicate with their assigned shift teams to assure superior levels of safety, reliability, sanitation, and quality.

· Secure maximum utilization of plant resources in achieving plant objectives,

· Instill operational knowledge and procedures to equipment operators to ensure consistent performance and proper use of plant resources.

· Coordinate manpower and labor distribution to ensure work completion or to adjust worker assignment to gain greatest result.

· Leverage and promote ideas and initiatives.

Performance Management -

· Ensure individual and team levels of performance meet or exceed goals and expectations.

· Ensure all compliance training is fully accomplished by all associates.

· Formulate, monitor and track schedule and individual employee adherence to the schedule and resolves any attendance issues.

· Ensure that the timekeeping is accurate, up-to-date, and appropriately supported with review notes.

· Monitor and control PTO use and overtime utilization.

· Balance labor against production volume.

· Observe, coach, train and intervene with workers to ensure highest expected performance capability.

· Work with HR and senior plant leadership in addressing performance issues.

Communication -

· Confer with supervisors of on-coming and off-going shifts to determine production changes, needs, and exposures.

· Communicate with and informs workers of production changes, and production issues.

· Prepare and conduct team meetings as necessary for proper communications and development of teams.

· Recommend and participate in continuous improvement projects.

Operations -

· Direct operations in receiving, sampling, quality measures, processing, handling, and packaging as well as inventory management and control.

· Diagnose and troubleshoot equipment issues.

· Inspect all machinery in assigned work arena to ensure compliance with OSHA and HACCP standards.

· Consult with maintenance to ensure compliance with MSS and PM scheduling standards.

· Work with the Engineering and Quality Assurance staff to create a cooperative environment on their assigned shift.

· Develop an expert knowledge of the production process and all associated equipment. Be able to analytically and systematically troubleshoot manufacturing issues and develop the team to be self-directed in the same activities.

· Participate in and lead teams to improve safety, quality, reliability, sanitation and reduce waste.

· Reinforce sense of urgency during production runs and periods of machine downtime.

· Effectively communicate issues to management team.

· Isolate and remove impediments to scheduling, production, manpower and safety.

· Proactively identify problems before issues occur and take correct course of action.

Compliance, Documentation, Monitoring & Inspection -

· Perform daily checks, document, reconcile and report to ensure the highest quality of product is produced and tracked.

· Maintain shift performance and quality documentation.

· Develop and deliver professional level Standard Operating Procedures and train on them and monitor to ensure adherence to them.

· Ensure compliance with all regulatory standards and practices.

· Ensure accurate, complete documentation and reporting of safety and environmental incidents and their related corrective actions.

· Ensure compliance of employees and process operations with GMPs, SOPs, and in the proper use of safety equipment and safe work procedures.

Investment and Commitment -

· Must be able to work variable hours and weekends and extended hours as tasks require.

· Must understand process functions in order to accomplish high level planning covering 24-hour periods at all times while maintaining adaptability to process variations and change.

· Must develop and enact contingencies for process and manpower scheduling and management.

· Prioritize multiple assignments at the same time and balance to meet established deadlines.