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Job Description Supervises a team of Production Workers and their daily activities to ensure the needs of all functions within the area are met (production, training, safety , security and housekeeping). Provides leadership/direction to the team and ensures that all the procedures for food safety and manufacturing high quality products are achieved. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The duties and responsibilities of this position shall consist of, but not be limited to, the following: Personnel • Ensure proper staffing is maintained, including interviewing and hiring new team members. • Implement and monitor training for new hires & ongoing training of current team members. • Maintain attendance records, counsel team members with poor attendance, & follow up with coaching/discipline as appropriate. • Evaluate team member work performance, conduct appropriate reviews for team members, address complaints and resolve conflicts, reward or discipline accordingly. Provide input for termination decisions. • Review, correct, and approve timekeeping tool to ensure team members are paid correctly each pay-period. Safety • Enforce all safety rules and company policies; provide appropriate interpretation of company policies and safety policies for team members. • Immediately report all accidents and deficiencies to management; complete accident investigations and report within 24 hours of incident. • Verify work and storage areas are maintained, safe, clean, and organized. • Ensure safety devices are installed and working properly. • Perform all duties within OSHA and company safety standards; Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO), wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and maintain safety equipment. • Complete and review all Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), and Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOP) requirements and paperwork. This includes but not limited to Pre-Operational Inspection, Operational Inspections, Pre-Shipment Review, and Corrective Actions. Quality • Ensure quality protocols are followed and openly communicated with QC and the Plant Manager in order to fix defects and ensure quality standards are consistently met. • Maintains quality product by establishing and enforcing organization standards. • Recommend methods to improve manufacturing processes including equipment performance to ensure product quality and increase efficiencies. • Supports successful implementation of SQF (Safe Quality Foods) within the facility. • Drive and support Continuous Improvement (CI) efforts. • Understand the concepts of FIFO (First-In-First-Out) on perishable products and ensure successful implementation of FIFO throughout packaging operations within the facility. • Ensure all required sanitation functions are within acceptable standards. Productivity • Monitor and track inedible, rework and down time generated by machine. • Perform production paperwork, receiving, and inventory control procedures with complete accuracy. • Identifies, through a proactive approach, potential cost-saving and efficiency gain opportunities to improve overall operations. • Discuss work goals vs. actual output with team members to motivate and engage team members to assure targets are met. • Identify, control and follow up on losses incurred due to substandard supplies, i.e., time and materials. • Manage inventory and cost control. • Implement and monitor weekly requisitions for daily supplies and manufacturing supplies. • Conduct accurate weekly, period end, and year-end departmental inventories. • Compile, store, and retrieve production data. Leadership • Provides direction to team members to ensure quality products and adherence to productivity goals and cost standards • Demonstrate professionalism; encourage and insist on positive attitudes and behaviors from team members such as dependability, and trustworthiness in team members. • Create and cultivate positive work relationships at all levels of the plant/organization. • Build and support a culture of openness and accountability within (and outside) the assigned department. Communication • Communicate with peers, subordinates, and leaders in an effective, timely manner • Keep Assistant Plant Manager & other leaders informed daily of problems incurred during shift. • Confer with appropriate personnel to coordinate activities between departments. Misc. Responsibilities • Coordinate all functions related to the operations of all processing procedures, and specifications. • Monitor product coding related to the lot traceability program and ensure its accuracy. • Performs other duties and responsibilities as necessary.