
Production Supervisor - Weekend & Weekday
Mondelez · Chicago, IL
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $78k–$107k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level production role at Mondelez (food & beverage) in Chicago, IL. In this leadership role, you are an internal technical master at the line level who ensures the line team is performing at a level that sustains and improves business results on one or more of 6 stars model.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Six Sigma, 5S, TPM, Root cause, MES
- Base pay
- $78k–$107k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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How this role compares
Against 25 other live production postings in Illinois.
- Base pay
- In line with similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (3+ years)
Typical $76k–$106k, from 14 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 96%
- Lean 38%
- SAP 27%
- ✓ Union environment 27%
- ✓ 5S 27%
- ✓ MES 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Mondelez
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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This plant: Mondelez in Chicago
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Key accountabilities /Responsibilities
- ◆Prevent incidents by ensure 'zero safety incidents' mentality and culture in his line(s)/area
- ◆Enforce safety rules and ensure a clean, organized, and hazard-free work environment
- ◆Promote 5S practices and standard visual management on the line
- ◆Prevent incidents by ensure 'zero quality incidents' mentality and culture in his line(s)/area
- ◆Monitor adherence to quality standards and take immediate action on non-conformances
- ◆Ensure all quality checks, documentation, and traceability protocols are completed correctly
- ◆Ensure volumes are produced in time in full against production plan
- ◆Input and validate shift performance data in ERP, MES, or production dashboards
- ◆React promptly to line stoppages, quality issues, and equipment malfunctions.
- ◆Improve cost over time through systemic Loss Elimination, Identify and eliminate losses
- ◆Building and growing High Performing Teams in his line(s)/area
- ◆Coach and develop the Line teams
- ◆Team back up and succession planning
- ◆Own the execution of all SWP in the line at the designated shift
- ◆Priority Setting through Daily Management System and effective escalation of issues
Education / Certifications
- ✓High school diploma or technical qualification required; associate degree or vocational certification preferred.
- ✓2-3 years in current role + ready to promote + proven people leadership skills & capability
- ✓3+ years of production experience in a manufacturing environment, with at least 1 year in a team lead or supervisory role.
- ✓Strong understanding of production line operations, quality checks, and safety
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Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
In this leadership role, you are an internal technical master at the line level who ensures the line team is performing at a level that sustains and improves business results on one or more of 6 stars model. You model priority setting, manage the plan-do-check- adjust cycle and provide coaching and training for your team.
How you will contribute
You are a key ingredient in helping us change how the world snacks. You will operate and maintain equipment to build technical mastery and to deliver on safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets, understanding losses in your area and taking the appropriate action to eliminate them. You will use autonomous and progressive maintenance standards to maintain equipment and support new product development. In this role, you will ensure that safety processes are observed [e.g. safety maps, lock out tag out (LOTO) , behavior observation system (BOS) and root-cause analysis (RCA)], that quality assurance activities are performed to ensure zero harm and 100 percent good-quality products, and that resources are properly allocated and available during the shift. You will take the lead for shutdown maintenance, root-cause analysis, stops reductions loss analysis and breakdown elimination.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
- •Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance (PM) Step 3 systems
- •Maintaining equipment at basic conditions independently, including the execution of AM & PM (break-down maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
- •Total productive maintenance and Six Sigma including qualification of AM steps 5-6, and PM step 3
- •Leading line teams
- •Handling challenging interpersonal situations tactfully
- •Influencing people in a union environment
- •Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and good attention to detail
The Shift Leader is responsible for supervising all operational activities during a designated shift, ensuring that production lines meet their SQDCM targets. Acting as the on-shift point of control, the Shift Leader coordinates across teams—including production, maintenance, and quality—while ensuring that all line activities are executed to plan and according to standard work. This role ensures smooth transitions between shifts and provides immediate decision-making support in dynamic production conditions.
What extra ingredients you will bring
- •Lead by Example
- •Role model standards and behavior
- •Leadership presence with the ability to make decisions under pressure
- •Cross-shift & cross-functional coordination with Excellent communication / interpersonal skills
- •Role model in problem solving and loss eradication
- •Build capability through Learn - Do - Teach
- •Growing team capability through effective coaching and feedback
- •Empower the team by growing team autonomy
Work schedule
- •Flexibility required to work any shift.
Salary and Benefits
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic
