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 to ensure efficient production of retail-ready poultry products that meet company standards for quality, food safety, packaging, appearance, and customer specifications. This hands-on leadership role manages daily production activities, workforce performance, labor utilization, and operational efficiency in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. The supervisor works with Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Warehouse, and other operational teams to meet schedules and customer orders, minimize waste, and maintain a safe, clean, productive workplace. The role leads and develops team members, manages staffing and labor costs, ensures compliance with food safety, sanitation, safety, and applicable workplace procedures, and monitors production performance. It also maintains operational records, communicates shift results and issues, supports corrective actions, and promotes continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Supervise and coordinate second-shift tray pack operations to meet production goals, customer deadlines, and retail product specifications.
Monitor production flow, line performance, product handling, packaging, labeling, coding, rotation, changeovers, and finished-product staging.
Plan staffing and allocate labor according to production needs, employee availability, qualifications, and applicable work rules.
Coordinate with Warehouse and other departments to ensure production has required raw materials, packaging supplies, labels, and other necessities.
Lead, coach, train, and cross-train employees; communicate assignments, expectations, safety requirements, and shift priorities; provide feedback and corrective action as appropriate.
Apply company policies and work rules consistently in a unionized environment, and partner with Human Resources on employee relations, discipline, grievances, and contract interpretation as appropriate.
Ensure adherence to food safety, sanitation, HACCP, USDA, FDA, SQF, company, and customer-specific requirements.
Monitor product quality, weight, appearance, packaging integrity, labeling, code dating, product handling, temperature control, allergen controls where applicable, and cross-contamination prevention.
Partner with Quality Assurance on quality concerns, inspections, nonconformances, corrective actions, product holds, investigations, and rework.
Enforce safety policies, personal protective equipment requirements, safe equipment operation, housekeeping, and sanitation procedures; identify and report hazards, injuries, and near misses.
Inspect production areas and ensure equipment, workstations, pre-operational checks, shutdowns, cleaning, and sanitation procedures meet company requirements.
Monitor output, labor efficiency, yield, waste, downtime, rework, and quality; investigate recurring performance issues and support continuous improvement.
Coordinate with Maintenance to communicate needs, troubleshoot equipment issues, and support repairs that reduce downtime.
Monitor attendance, overtime, staffing levels, labor utilization, and labor variances; adjust line coverage to meet operational demands and control costs.
Track and report production results and maintain accurate production, staffing, quality, and food safety records for reviews, audits, and regulatory or customer requirements.
Communicate shift results, challenges, equipment issues, staffing concerns, product holds, and improvement opportunities to leadership and provide clear shift handoffs.
Follow up on corrective actions and perform other related duties as assigned.