Production Supervisor - Robards, Kentucky

Tyson Foods•Robards, KY

18h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for maintaining high production, quality, and yields while ensuring the safest working environment possible. It requires an essential understanding and control of the production process, accurate record keeping, and general line maintenance and staffing. The role also involves human relations functions such as training, retaining, and counseling Team Members on personal and professional problems. The supervisor will oversee various processing operations, work with other supervisors to solve problems, keep records of reworked or returned product, and provide continuous education on the importance of quality. Additionally, the position involves checking daily production orders, ensuring proper staffing, overseeing Team Member exercises and job rotation, ensuring machinery performance and USDA inspection compliance, promoting safety, ensuring accurate shipments, inventory rotation, and proper product coding, and communicating company benefits and compensation policies.

Requirements

1 year in a manufacturing environment
High school diploma
Strong communication skills
Ability to supervise a group of personnel who perform somewhat identical and related tasks or activities
Ability to travel 1-5 trips per year

Nice To Haves

Prior supervisory/lead experience
Equivalent educational typically acquired through a bachelor's degree
Education beyond high school including special training, vocational school and/or college courses
Basic computer skills

Responsibilities

Checking daily production orders to ensure fulfillment of customer orders
Ensuring every position is filled before start-up of production line
Overseeing Team Member morning exercises and job rotation to facilitate ergonomics
Ensuring all machinery is performing to the highest standard possible
Ensuring all workstations have passed USDA Inspection
Promoting safety daily as well as through monthly safety meetings
Ensuring accurate shipments, rotation of inventory, and proper coding of products
Knowing and communicating company benefits and compensation policies to Team Members
Providing encouragement to Team Members to build the best team possible
Performing the human relations functions such as training, retaining, and counseling on personal and professional problems
Overseeing various processing operations and working with other supervisors in solving problems
Keeping records of reworked or returned product
Providing continuous education on the importance of quality
Performing other responsibilities as the need arises