POSITION SUMMARY: Responsible for a specific production operation including formulation, stuffing, smoking, and packaging. Also, responsible for supervising employees, organizing and monitoring the work flow.

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:

• Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Maintains work flow by monitoring steps of the process, setting variables, observing control points and equipment, monitoring personnel, monitoring resources, studying methods, implementing cost reductions, develop reporting procedures and systems.
• Facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points, and initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel, accomplishing work results, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, and reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs, evaluate new equipment, and evaluates new techniques.
• Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data, and answer questions/respond to requests.
• Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, budgetary, personnel requirements, and implementing change.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources.
• Maintain compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data, investigating issues, identifying solutions, and recommending action.
• Establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that supports company's quality policy, quality system, and the appropriate regulations for the area they support.
• Ensure employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, and participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Completes other duties and projects as assigned by the department manager including, but not limited to; process improvements, cost savings, and efficiencies.
• Takes responsibility of work area to produce a safe and quality food product. Reports all food safety and quality related problems to your manager and to the QA department to initiate immediate action.
• If the person in this position is absent, he/she will be replaced by a person properly trained to perform such duties.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: Yes

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, ETC:

• Required education generally equivalent to an associate's degree; bachelor's degree in business or related field preferred, with a combination of experience or skills acceptable; 3 to 5 years of manufacturing, high speed packaging, or food manufacturing experience; two to five years' successful leadership experience, with a proven track record of positive interaction and follow through with different level of the company.
• Requires a thorough understanding of GMP's, HACCP, and SQF guidelines.
• Must be HACCP certified.
• Requires mathematical skills that require the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide and perform metric conversions.
• Requires excellent oral written communication skills to interact with and provide work direction to employees.
• Must be certified in forklift operation.
• Ability to use other industrial equipment as needed.
• Must be trained as an authorized employee under LOTO.
• Proven competency in the following areas; coaching, managing processes, process improvement, strategic planning, and dealing with complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use office systems, communication, and software told currently used in the OWS office environment.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. The phrases "occasionally," "regularly," and "frequently" correspond to the following definitions: "occasionally" means up to 1/3 of working time, "regularly" means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and frequently" means 2/3 and more working time.

While performing the duties and responsibilities of this position, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands (finger, handle, or touch product), move from place to place, and will frequently talk and listen. The employee will occasionally be required to use foot/feet to operate machines, climb/balance, stoop, kneel, crouch/crawl, and reach above shoulders.

Specific vision requirements for this positon include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

During the performance of his/her work duties, the employee will be occasionally required to lift over 100 pounds, and will occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds, such as moving product from skid to skid.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee works in food manufacturing environment and is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. He/she is regularly exposed to work in high places.

The noise level in the work environment is loud. Company provides: insulated coats, rubber gloves, metal gloves, cooler coats, sleeve protectors, aprons, bump cap, hair net, beard net, and ear plugs.