Night Shift Production Supervisor

Niagara Water•Opelika, AL

20h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for supervising daily operations of the production floor; ensuring the shift meets the established safety, quality, and production goals in compliance with all applicable legal and food safety requirements. The Night Shift Production Supervisor will manage and direct activities of assigned shift, ensuring product adheres to Niagara’s standard of safety, quality, and throughput. This role maintains effective working relationships with team members through open communication, visibility, and involvement to promote a positive working environment that maximizes safety, employee engagement, productivity, and throughput. The supervisor analyzes the production schedule prior to shift start and adjusts team member assignments to meet production targets. They verify discrete jobs are correct in Oracle (including quality and bill of material list), Warehouse Management System, and/or Line Management System. This role is responsible for team member coaching and development, employment decisions, and resolving issues through conflict resolution. The supervisor hires, trains, coaches and reviews performance of team members, and partners with Human Resources and Production Manager for recruitment, corrective actions, and terminations. They inspect raw materials prior to changeovers to ensure correct inventories for production runs and perform first pass quality checks after changeovers to prevent non-conforming product. The supervisor collaborates with the Maintenance Department to resolve downtime occurrences on the production lines and completes shift reports for production numbers, downtime, attendance, overtime and quality checks for submission to the Production Manager. They conduct walkthroughs throughout the shift to ensure safety, quality, and housekeeping compliance by team members and interface with multiple departments within the organization to ensure customer deadlines are met. This role participates in interviews with hiring managers and collaborates with plant leadership and shift team members to champion a world-class safety culture. The supervisor conducts weekly safety talk trainings, daily safety/quality/production meetings, and hourly safety walks. They adhere to the highest standards of company and plant safety programs, guidelines, rules, and regulations, and abide by Niagara’s Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Food Safety Standards at all times. The supervisor develops, recommends, and implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product, and suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shift team members. They monitor and review assigned team members time and attendance for accuracy and utilize the Efficiency Improvement Tools to understand and comment on line downtime and communicate appropriately per the escalation plan. Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job. Ability to work 12 hour shifts, day or night, on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or schedule as dictated by production demand.

Requirements

4 Years – Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
4 Years – Experience in Position
4 Years – Experience managing people/projects experience may include a combination of work experience and education
Understanding of production processes and controls
High School Diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

6 Years– Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
6 Years – Experience working in Position
6 Years – Experience managing people/projects experience may include a combination of work experience and education
Associate's Degree

Responsibilities

Manages and directs activities of assigned shift, ensuring product adheres to Niagara’s standard of safety, quality, and throughput.
Maintains effective working relationships with team members through open communication, visibility, and involvement to promote a positive working environment that maximizes safety, employee engagement, productivity, and throughput.
Analyzes the production schedule prior to shift start and adjusts team member assignments to meet production targets.
Verifies discrete jobs are correct in Oracle (including quality and bill of material list), Warehouse Management System, and/or Line Management System.
Responsible for team member coaching and development, employment decisions, and resolving issues through conflict resolution.
Hires, trains, coaches and reviews performance of team members.
Partners with Human Resources and Production Manager for recruitment, corrective actions, and terminations.
Inspects raw materials prior to changeovers to ensure correct inventories for production runs.
Performs first pass quality checks after changeovers to prevent non-conforming product.
Collaborates with the Maintenance Department to resolve downtime occurrences on the production lines.
Completes shift reports for production numbers, downtime, attendance, overtime and quality checks for submission to the Production Manager.
Conducts walkthroughs throughout the shift to ensure safety, quality, and housekeeping compliance by team members.
Interfaces with multiple departments within the organization to ensure customer deadlines are met.
Participates in interviews with hiring managers.
Collaborates with plant leadership and shift team members to champion a world-class safety culture.
Conducts weekly safety talk trainings, daily safety/quality/production meetings, and hourly safety walks.
Adheres to the highest standards of company and plant safety programs, guidelines, rules, and regulations.
Abides by Niagara’s Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Food Safety Standards at all times.
Develops, recommends, and implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shift team members.
Monitors and reviews assigned team members time and attendance for accuracy.
Utilizes the Efficiency Improvement Tools to understand and comment on line downtime and communicate appropriately per the escalation plan.

Benefits

Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
Paid parental and caregiver leaves
Medical, including virtual care options
Dental
Vision
401(k) with company match
Health Savings Account with company match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking
Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities