Meat Plant Production Supervisor
Shamrock Foods · Commerce City, CO
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 4 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor production role at Shamrock Foods (industrial) in Commerce City, CO. Security - Warns violators of rule infractions, such as wandering plant, smoking, or eating in plant, and contacts SECURITY DEPARTMENT when persons engaging in suspicious or criminal acts are seen.
- They ask for
- 3+ years
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Supervisor roles in Colorado: typical posted base $78k–$114k.
Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 17 production supervisor openings in Colorado, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 14 other live production postings in Colorado.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Typical $76k–$114k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 100%
- EHS / safety 20%
- Lean 20%
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Full description from Shamrock FoodsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Duties
- ◆Interprets and enforces company policies and safety regulations to workers.
- ◆Confers with all supervisors, and managers to coordinate activities of individual departments.
- ◆Creates production schedules and estimates worker hour
requirements
for completion of job assignments.
- ✓Compiles and submits accident reports required by the company for industrial, and/or meat plant accidents.
- ✓Security - Warns violators of rule infractions, such as wandering plant, smoking, or eating in plant, and contacts SECURITY DEPARTMENT when persons engaging in suspicious or criminal acts are seen.
- ✓Follow through with associates’ concerns in a timely matter.
- ✓Assigns duties and examines work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
- ✓Establishes or adjust work procedures to meet production schedules.
- ✓Advises employees on care and preservation of packaging of items received, stored, and shipped; methods and use of equipment in handling, storing, maintaining, and shipping stock; and related problems.
- ✓Studies records and recommends remedial actions for reported non-usable, slow moving and excess stock.
- ✓Reviews records for accuracy of information and compliance with established procedures.
- ✓Determines work procedures, prepares work schedules, and expedites workflow.
- ✓Issues written and oral instructions and maintain harmony among workers and resolves grievances.
- ✓Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
- ✓Prepares composite reports from individual reports of subordinates.
- ✓Initiates or suggest plans to motivate workers to achieve work goal.
- ✓Facilitates training and review process of all department players.
- ✓Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
- ✓Responsible for timely and accurate distribution of paper work to the payroll and support departments.
- ✓Adjusts errors and complaints.
- ✓Reviews production costs and product quality and modifies production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of Meat Plant.
Qualifications
- ✓3+ years’ experience within production/processing environment
- ✓1+ years’ supervisory experience
- ✓Good computer skills, including MS Office Experience
- ✓Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively
- ✓Must be able to understand all policies, procedures, instructions, rules and regulations (including safety training and safety information) associated with this position which are written in English
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The starting wage for this position will be between $70,000 & $85,000 Depending on experience.
Supervises and coordinates activities of workers concerned with all areas of Ground Beef (fresh and frozen) and receiving within the ground beef areas by performing the following duties.
Physical Demands
- •While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to extreme cold; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
Corporate Summary
At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first – our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.
Our Mission
At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family’s motto to “treat associates like family and customers like friends.”
Why work for us?
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
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