PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR - Wise Foods, Inc. - Salty Snacks Food Manufacturing Plant

Utilize your leadership and management skills to oversee operations in our manufacturing setting, with the objective of increasing employee productivity while ensuring safety and maintaining quality standards.

Core competencies needed for this role include Problem Solving, Continuous Improvement and Communications.

Are you dedicated and self-motivated to succeed? Do you desire roles of increasing responsibility and want to contribute to the overall company goals and objectives? If yes, then you might be the right fit for a leadership role within the Wise Foods operations team!

Responsibilities of this role include:

You will ensure the products and people are safe and manage regulatory compliance requirements as defined by OSHA, FDA, and EPA

Compliance with Safety requirements: Activities & Involvement, Rules and Procedures, & Incident Investigation.

• Responsible for monthly facility Safety Audits.
• Following guidelines and promote OSHA standards on a daily basis.
• Adhering strictly to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) to ensure product quality.
• Focusing on ensuring a safe, accident-free production area, while increasing productivity and exceeding client satisfaction and company production objectives.
• You will ensure the products meet Wise specified targets for attributes

Implementing Quality policies and procedures including; HACCP, metal detection, recall procedures, hold procedures and lot traceability.

• Analyze production issues and recommend a course of action.
• Create operating procedures for processes, data collection, and process operating guidelines.
• Lead initiatives for plant productivity and efficiencies.
• Develop continuous improvement projects and manage to a conclusion.
• You'll coordinate activities between all shifts and supervisors in the Department.

Lead production supervisors and department by communicating the production plan based on the daily needs of the department

• Communicate with Maintenance Manager to establish priorities
• Understand the budgeting of production management to determine costs and factory contribution.
• Responsible for adhering to the department budget.
• Execution and project management of investments allocated to achieve the established commitments.

You'll perform these Compliance Duties:

• Implement guidelines of the Quality Management System of ARCA CONTINENTAL to meet requirements, standards and specifications.
• Support for the operating personnel have skills to develop their activities , to promote continuous improvement.
• Establish and measure the effectiveness of points and control measures in place to prevent and correct deviation presented in the processes and indicators

You'll perform these Production Management Duties:

• Verify compliance programs daily, weekly and monthly production to deliver products required.
• Oversight for the inventory of packaging and raw material available to meet production schedules .
• Establish priorities for production schedules, communicating with the scheduler to determine the machine availability.

You'll perform these Planning Duties:

• Line balance analysis to determine the optimum resources needed to operate efficiently.
• Frequently revise indicators established to improve trend and meet

MINIMALLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES have the following required skills and experience:

• Associates degree
• Led supervisors in a food production facility.
• Possess basic Knowledge of OSHA, FDA, EMP, FMLA, ADA.

IDEAL CANDIDATES also have the following skills and experiences:

Bachelor's Degree or higher
Over three (3) years' experience supervising production supervisors and their teams in a unionized manufacturing facility.
Experience with grievances and discipline process.
Implemented production and/or quality control improvements on food manufacturing facilities.
Has worked with certifications or audits from OSHA, FDA, EMP.
Has worked with FMLA and ADA cases in a manufacturing facilities.
Participated in projects related to quality control standards, lean manufacturing, six sigma, or any form of QC related to TPS.
Experience in maintaining food industry grade machinery.

About Wise:

Wise Foods Inc. ("Wise" or "the Company") is a leading producer of salty snacks with a long heritage. Founded in 1921, Wise is a brand of tradition and authenticity that consumers have come to know and trust over the last 100 years. Since our inception, our iconic brand has symbolized great tasting snacks for many generations of consumers including potato chips; cheese flavored baked and fried corn snacks, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, onion rings and other assorted snacks. We market our products under some of the most recognizable brand names in the salty snack industry, including Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli and Bravos. We also produce private label products for a number of retailers. Products are distributed using a direct-store-door ("DSD") delivery and merchandising system and sold in major grocery retailers, neighborhood markets and urban bodegas, as well as established retailers in the mass, convenience store, drug, food service and club channels. Wise Foods is fully owned by Arca Continental, the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. We invite you to explore growing your career with Wise!