Production Supervisor - Retail Tray Pack - 2nd Shift

HOLLY POULTRY•Hanover, MD

3d•$65,000 - $85,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Retail Tray Pack Production Supervisor oversees second-shift tray pack operations in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. The role ensures efficient production of retail-ready poultry products that meet company, customer, food safety, packaging, quality, and presentation standards. The supervisor provides hands-on leadership for daily production activities, workforce performance, labor utilization, and operational efficiency, coordinating with Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Warehouse, and other teams to meet production schedules, fulfill customer orders, minimize waste, and maintain a safe, clean, productive workplace. The supervisor leads and develops team members; manages staffing, attendance, and labor costs; monitors output, yield, waste, downtime, and quality; and maintains accurate operational records and shift handoffs. The role also enforces food safety, sanitation, regulatory, and workplace safety requirements, and supports continuous improvement and corrective actions. This position works in a unionized environment and may require a flexible full-time schedule, including weekends and holidays as needed.

Requirements

3–5 years of supervisory experience in food production, retail processing, or high-volume manufacturing.
Strong leadership, communication, and team development skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word.
Ability to work a flexible full-time schedule, including weekends and holidays as needed.
Successful completion of post-offer/pre-employment drug and background screening.

Nice To Haves

Experience with tray pack, retail packaging, or fresh food production.
Bilingual Spanish ability.
Knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles.
Experience working in a unionized environment.

Responsibilities

Supervise and coordinate second-shift tray pack production to meet retail specifications, labeling requirements, packaging standards, production goals, and customer deadlines.
Monitor production flow, line performance, product changeovers, setups, and transitions; address bottlenecks, equipment interruptions, staffing shortages, and workflow issues.
Allocate labor and staffing coverage based on production schedules, employee availability, qualifications, and operational priorities.
Coordinate with Warehouse and other departments to ensure availability of raw materials, packaging supplies, labels, and other production necessities; ensure finished products are handled, identified, and staged appropriately.
Lead, coach, train, and develop employees; communicate assignments, expectations, safety requirements, and shift priorities; provide feedback and corrective action as appropriate.
Enforce company policies, attendance expectations, work rules, and procedures consistently in a unionized environment; apply collective bargaining agreement provisions and partner with Human Resources on employee relations, discipline, grievances, and contract interpretation.
Ensure employees are trained for assigned tasks and support training and cross-training initiatives.
Enforce food safety, sanitation, HACCP, USDA, FDA, SQF, company, and customer-specific requirements; monitor product quality, weight, appearance, packaging integrity, labeling, and code dating.
Partner with Quality Assurance to resolve quality concerns, inspection findings, nonconformances, and corrective actions; escalate food safety, contamination, labeling, and product integrity concerns promptly.
Ensure proper product handling, temperature control, allergen controls where applicable, cross-contamination prevention, product holds, investigations, rework, and required documentation.
Enforce safety policies, personal protective equipment requirements, and safe equipment and material-handling practices; inspect the production area and report injuries, near misses, hazards, and safety concerns.
Maintain clean, organized, and sanitary production areas, equipment, and workstations; reinforce shutdown, cleaning, sanitation, pre-operational checks, and release procedures.
Monitor production performance against output, labor efficiency, yield, waste, and quality goals; investigate recurring efficiency, downtime, rework, and labor-utilization issues.
Support continuous improvement, workflow optimization, standardization, cost control, productivity, and employee involvement in identifying improvements.
Ensure proper operation and care of tray pack equipment; communicate maintenance needs and collaborate with Maintenance to troubleshoot issues and reduce downtime.
Monitor attendance, overtime, staffing levels, labor utilization, and labor costs; adjust assignments and communicate labor variances and productivity opportunities.
Track and report production output, labor utilization, downtime, yield, waste, quality issues, and other key performance indicators.
Maintain accurate, timely production, staffing, quality, and operational records; communicate shift results and provide handoffs on outstanding production issues, equipment concerns, product holds, and staffing needs.
Follow up on corrective actions and perform other related duties as assigned.