1st Shift Production Supervisor

OPC Arbre Farms•Walkerville, MI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

OPC is a family-owned company headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, with a history spanning over 40 years. Starting as a small farm, OPC has grown significantly, now controlling over 140,000 irrigated acres and operating processing plants across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Michigan. The company is committed to innovation, quality, customer service, and sustainable agricultural practices, offering "Seed to Fork" varieties of potato products, vegetables, and fruits. The Production Supervisor plays a key role in the "From Field to Fork" process, leading a team to supply food products across the US, Mexico, and Canada. This role supports tactical and strategic objectives for the Production functions under the direction of the Production and Plant Manager.

Requirements

Expertise in Production Processes.
Excellent time management and organizational skills. This position has high time demands and pressures that require the incumbent to effectively prioritize, juggle, and manage numerous projects at once.
Strong leadership skills – Ability to build trust and credibility, provide direction, communicate and ensure alignment across the Production Team and within the Leadership Team at Arbre Farms.
Strong interpersonal skills – Ability to establish and maintain effective key business relationships with both internal staff and external contacts. Must have the ability to make recommendation to effective resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is in consistent with Company standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law.
Minimum of a high school or high school equivalent education
Manufacturing experience preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience
Familiarity with a variety of production, and quality concepts, tools, practices, and procedures

Nice To Haves

Prefer 3 to 5 years’ experience at a supervisory level with production responsibilities as a focus
Lean, 5s, Six Sigma, etc. experience / training is a plus

Responsibilities

Holds daily pre-shift meetings and communicates any relevant information to the employees
Completes daily paperwork and turns into Production Administrator/Quality Assurance
Completes daily pass down email
Assigns employee positions for the day
Coordinates employee breaks
Rotates employee positions to avoid fatigue
Verify employees have completed all tasks before leaving for the day
Provides basic equipment to employees when needed and completes required sign out paperwork, where applicable
Responsible for performing daily scale verifications
Assists Production Manager with daily setup of machinery according to production schedule
Responsible for adhering to and implementing all policies set forth by HR and Quality
Advises and recommends work orders to be completed by Maintenance
Assists in yearly retraining with employees
Actively engaged in employee retention efforts by soliciting feedback from employees and communication g results with the Production Managers and HR department
Serves as a backup to the Production Manager in their absence and with new employee training
Other related duties as assigned