Superintendent 2nd Processing (2nd Shift)

Farmer Focus•Harrisonburg, VA

3d•$85,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Poultry Processing Superintendent, Manual Debone Cone Lines is responsible for leading the daily operations of the manual debone cone line area within the poultry processing plant. This role oversees production supervisors and team members to ensure people, processes, and resources are aligned to meet established goals for safety, quality, food safety, operational efficiency, yield, labor utilization, and production flow. The Superintendent plays a key leadership role in driving department performance, maintaining positive department culture, supporting retention, and developing supervisors and team members. This position is also responsible for monitoring key metrics, identifying trends and opportunities, supporting continuous improvement, and completing accurate operational data reporting for the department.

Requirements

Must be authorized to work in the United States.
New team members must be able to pass a drug, alcohol and background screening post-offer and prior to the start of their employment.

Nice To Haves

Farmer Focus exists to promote and protect generational family farms by shifting farm-level decision-making and chicken ownership back to farmers and empowering them to farm the way they know is best.
We are committed to producing 100% organic and humanely raised chicken that is better for people, the planet, and animals.
Our culture is grounded in servant leadership and guided by our CARES values: Community, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Stewardship.
Our top priorities are people, safety, and quality.
At Farmer Focus, our vision is to disrupt the status quo by creating bold opportunities for people who demand more and deserve better.
EOE, including disability/vets.
Farmer Focus is a company dedicated to people, the farmers who grow for us and our team members who work in our state-of-the-art facilities.
Whether a general laborer on our breast debone line or an executive, we are committed to creating a workplace that values all our people and offers everyone a chance to grow and thrive.
We operate from our Farmer Focus CARES values: Comunidad, Responsabilidad, Respeto, Excelencia y Mayordomía.
We plan our work schedules to avoid most Saturday work.
We do not run production on Sundays.
Join us in our mission to protect generational family farms.
We look forward to working with you!

Responsibilities

Lead daily operations for the manual debone cone lines, ensuring production plans are executed safely, efficiently, and accurately.
Directly supervise, coach, and develop department supervisors and support their leadership of production team members.
Monitor department performance against key metrics including yield, operational efficiency, labor utilization, throughput, quality, safety, retention, and other assigned measures.
Drive continuous improvement efforts to reduce waste, improve yield, increase efficiency, and strengthen production flow across the cone line area.
Partner with supervisors to ensure proper staffing, line assignments, rotation, training, and coverage based on production needs.
Ensure product quality, trim standards, food safety requirements, packaging specifications, and customer expectations are consistently met.
Identify trends, defects, downtime causes, or process deviations and implement timely corrective actions.
Support and enforce all company policies, safety rules, GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP requirements, sanitation expectations, and USDA regulatory standards.
Maintain a positive, respectful, and accountable department culture that supports engagement, communication, teamwork, and retention.
Partner with Human Resources and plant leadership on attendance, performance management, corrective action, retention, and employee relations matters.
Ensure supervisors and team members receive required safety, food safety, job-specific, and leadership training.
Prepare, review, and submit accurate operational reports, production data, yield results, labor data, and other department reporting as required.
Analyze production data and partner with leadership to develop action plans that improve department results.
Coordinate with Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Human Resources, Scheduling, and other departments to resolve issues and support plant objectives.
Participate in audits, safety meetings, production meetings, and continuous improvement initiatives as needed.
Perform all other related duties as assigned by Management.