Summary:

Plans, directs, coordinates, and controls activities of workers engaged in production by performing the following duties.

Essential Functions:

• Studies production schedules and estimates staffing, duty assignments and inventory requirements.
• Develops a process plan including people, resources, equipment, and floor space.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Coordinates manpower requirements by increasing or decreasing personnel and overtime to meet changing conditions.
• Recommends and implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Maintains time cards for hourly employees and production records using OEE software and Microsoft Excel.
• Performs activities of workers supervised as needed.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations and maintains CPR/First Aid Certification.
• Responds to grievances accordingly and works with subordinates, and human resources to discuss and eliminate problems.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.
• Conducts and/or attends meetings as required.

Organizational Core Competencies:

Customer Focus: Builds customer confidence by ensuring expectations and commitments are met. Establishes and maintains effective and positive relationships with internal and external customers. Acts with customers in mind and values the importance of providing high-quality customer service.

Integrity & Trust: Sets an example by consistently modeling high standards of honesty and integrity. Is widely trusted and is seen as a direct, truthful individual who presents information in an appropriate and helpful manner. Maintains a reputation for honesty, confidentiality, reliability and fairness. Is willing to admit mistakes and doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.

Getting Results ("Can Do" Spirit): Performs work with energy and drive; values planning, but will take quick, decisive action when an opportunity presents itself.

Creativity & Innovation: Injects originality into daily work and generates many new and unique ideas. Thinks "outside the box" and is seen as original and value-added in brainstorming ideas. Creates competitive and breakthrough solutions.

Collaboration: Collaborates positively to achieve team and company objectives. Works effectively within a diverse environment and builds strong relationships that helps and supports fellow employees in contributing to the overall success of the company.

Management Core Competencies:

Leadership: Motivates, inspires and encourages other to perform well. Leads through change and adversity with ease. Makes the tough call when needed and effectively influences the actions and opinions of others.

Strategic Thinking: Balances both short- and long-term goals while developing and inspiring commitment to a vision of success. Supports, promotes and ensures that work is aligned with the company's overall mission, vision and values.

Managing & Measuring Work: Clearly assigns responsibility for tasks and decisions to minimize confusion or error. Sets clear objectives and measures and monitors the process, progress, and results to ensure success. Designs feedback loops into work to ensure constant and effective lines of communication.

Minimum Requirements

Education:

• Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

N/A

Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience in a manufacturing production environment with specific experience managing production lines. Food industry experience preferred.

Special Training/Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of email, spreadsheet software, word processing software and presentation software.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision and depth perception. May be required to distinguish shades of color to identify abnormalities and/or defects in food products.