Production Supervisor - Nights (Biospringer)

Lesaffre Group•Cedar Rapids, IA

8h•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor oversees production in the plant to ensure a consistent quality finished product by maintaining adherence to procedural standards and making necessary adjustments during the production process, and to control the dryers' operation. This position is a 12-hour day shift from 5 PM - 5 AM on a rotational schedule.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Associate's Degree in Biotechnology, Chemistry, Production Management required or a minimum of 2 to 3 years experience as a supervisor for a food-processing manufacturer.
Basic math, chemistry, and microbiology knowledge is required to work under minimal supervision and assess situations, weigh alternatives and take decisive, prudent courses of action.
Basic knowledge of equipment and production department sanitation.
Requires ability to recognize and analyze production problems and identify possible causes.
Requires the ability to supervise multiple people and prioritize various duties and to ensure production of consistent, quality product.
Ability to prioritize and organize tasks and delegate to others while following through to ensure completion of assignments.
Superior communication and “customer” service skills are required in relationships with coworkers, management, and other departments within the company.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to dry and dusty and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold or extreme heat.
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
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; occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk or hear.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Ability to be forklift certified required.

Nice To Haves

Paperwork demands attention to detail; computer proficiency preferred.
Additional safety and/or training experience helpful.
Mechanical aptitude and trouble-shooting skills.
Basic knowledge of equipment and production department sanitations.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operation 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, percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Responsibilities

Oversee activities of Process and Drying Operators.
Ensure operators follow proper procedures in the process and complete them as scheduled.
Ensure operators complete control sheets for each process.
Review control sheets for variances and approve or make necessary adjustments to Process and Drying.
Maintain Supervisors logbook, communicate with other shift supervisors and document all problems or concerns.
Report any special occurrences or incidents to next shift.
Enforce safety, food safety, and company policies; give verbal and written warnings of procedural violations in collaboration with Superintendent.
Perform minor machine and equipment maintenance.
Perform startup and shutdown operations of the spray dryers.
Notify maintenance department of equipment problems that cannot be solved independently by written work order requests.
Utilize judgment to determine when to call upon maintenance personnel.
Notify laboratory when tests are needed; deliver samples for testing.
Be able to do simple calculations for titration’s, concentrations, and process needs.
Use a computer for e-mail, Excel spreadsheets, and procedures in the production area.
May enter data into the computer systems and use SAP software.
Enforce the company’s GMP guidelines within the plant; this is to include production, packing, maintenance, or contract personnel.
Hold monthly GMP meetings and maintain a log to ensure that there are no problems and to answer any questions that anyone may have.
Maintain all process logs daily.
Must support and know the HACCP, Recall, GMP, and Safety programs of the plant.
Do performance evaluations of the Process and Drying Operators.
Maintain daily inventory for daily production needs with Supply Chain.
Responsible and accountable for the safety of all assigned personnel.
May fill in for absent or vacationing operators of Process or Drying if required by the needs of the company.
Must monitor drying activity for consistency.
Other duties as assigned depending on operational needs.