Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift
Smithfield Foods · Smithfield, VA
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $55k–$83k
- Travel
- 5%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor production role at Smithfield Foods (food & beverage) in Smithfield, VA. You’ll also lead safety audits, champion ergonomic initiatives, and ensure adherence to HACCP and USDA regulations.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- SAP
- Base pay
- $55k–$83k
- Day to day
- about 5% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Supervisor roles in Virginia: typical posted base $68k–$88k. This one lists $55k–$83k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 16 production supervisor openings in Virginia, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Virginia plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 15 other live production postings in Virginia.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 88%
- Lean 38%
- ✓ SAP 31%
- Six Sigma 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Smithfield Foods in Smithfield
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Have a seat at our table. When you join Smithfield, you become part of something special – a company that's sustainably feeding people around the world, producing good food the right way with respect for our people, animals, communities and planet. With opportunities across locations and functions, a culture grounded in our Core Four values - gratitude, communication, respect and accountability - and a strong commitment to learning, collaboration, and innovation, Smithfield offers challenging and rewarding careers where you can grow, contribute and make a real impact. Apply Now!
The value you’ll bring
In this role, you'll be at the heart of our operations—leading the charge on the front lines. You'll oversee the entire production process, from tracking yields to making real-time adjustments to keep things running smoothly. Ensuring safety and USDA health standards are met at every stage of the manufacturing process will be in your hands. Your efforts will directly contribute to maintaining the trusted quality that brands like Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan's Famous, and others are known for.
As a supervisor, you'll guide and lead production employees during your shifts, ensuring production targets are met on time and to the highest quality standards. You'll play a pivotal role in training, coaching, and motivating your team to achieve production goals while maintaining safety and quality. You’ll drive clear communication across all levels, keeping the team aligned with daily objectives and results, all while maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs. Plus, you'll oversee the routine maintenance and setup of equipment and facilities to keep everything running at peak performance.
This is your chance to make a real impact in a dynamic environment where your leadership and expertise will shape the success of the operation.
What you’ll do
- •Safety and Compliance: You will perform daily inspections on the production floor to identify unsafe conditions and take immediate corrective action as needed. You’ll also lead safety audits, champion ergonomic initiatives, and ensure adherence to HACCP and USDA regulations.
- •Product Quality and Training: You will maintain product quality by enforcing the Food Safety and Food Quality plans, training employees on safe operating procedures (including lock-out/tag-out), and ensuring tasks are performed according to product specifications.
- •Operational Efficiency: You will track and analyze production yields, efficiencies, and variances, working with Operations Managers and Supervisors to improve workflows and equipment use to minimize downtime and reduce costs.
- •Team Leadership and Communication: You will direct and provide guidance to hourly production employees, ensuring alignment on safety, quality, and production goals. You’ll also lead monthly line meetings and walk the production floor daily.
- •Continuous Improvement: You will analyze key product performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and suggest changes to enhance production efficiency, minimize costs, and maintain high standards of quality.
What we’re seeking
- •Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Business or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
- •Experience acting as a lead by providing training, coaching or mentoring to less experienced staff or through managing a process or project.
- •Strong communication skills (oral and written) while leading problem-solving efforts for complex process issues with solid analytical and math abilities.
- •Skilled at motivating, training, and coaching employees to achieve peak performance while fostering a positive, respectful, and team-oriented work environment.
- •Adaptable to fast-paced, dynamic environments, capable of working in varying conditions (heat and cold), and willing to work long hours and weekends when needed.
- •This role offers the opportunity to travel up to 5% of the time.
Other skills that make you stand out
- •If you're savvy with SAP, internet tools, spreadsheets, Word, order processing, and inventory software, we want to see your skills in action!
- •Bring your experience in food processing, leadership, and manufacturing to the table—your knowledge of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures will be key to driving success.
- •Bonus points if you're bilingual! We love diverse skills that help us connect and thrive.
Physical demands & work environment
- •The plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold and heat (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.
- •Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area.
- •Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- •Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.
- •Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
IndSPR-Ops
The expected pay range for this position is $55,000 - $82,500 annually.
Smithfield Foods provides pay ranges that reflect its good faith estimate of the salary or hourly wage the company reasonably expects to pay for a position at the time of hire. Individual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to, the scope and
