Job Description

Scope:

· Skilled knowledge of product lines. Employee is able to perform all tasks without guidance or supervision and will provide training and support to other peers.

· To aid in the training, processes, and procedures for all employees in the Packing Department. Key member for inventory.

· Institute the direction and goals of the Shift Supervisor to maintain yield, efficiency, quality, cleanliness, and safety.

Key Responsibilities:

· Emphasize policy, procedures, and culture consistent with the Shift Supervisor’s direction that control and improve:

· Production yield and efficiency of facility against standard

· Safety

· Leadership

· Cleanliness

· Food safety and quality

· Adherence to SOP’s

· Employee ownership and understanding of product and process and overall teambuilding

· Employee welfare

· Continuously take independent action, perform the daily paperwork, and provide corrective action recommendations to the Production Manager in the areas of:

· Safety

· Quality

· Cleanliness

· Yield & Efficiency

· Maintain their area in a clean, orderly, and safe manner

· Enforce company rules in a fair and consistent manner

· Report broken or inoperable equipment to the Shift Supervisor

· Report unsafe equipment or areas Shift Supervisor. Take immediate correction action if warranted.

· Start the lines on time

· Effect Changeovers in a timely fashion

· Schedule labor for full time and agency employees

· Work with the temporary labor provider to fill daily shortages

· Report time and attendance infractions to the Shift Supervisor

· Maintain strong interdepartmental communication that facilitates goals

· Report recommended changes to written production standards/specifications to reflect actual process to the Shift Supervisor

· Adhere to all environmental, health and safety requirements and procedures

· Responsible for food safety and quality

· Other tasks as assigned

· Verify throughout the shift:

· Adherence to the written production specifications and formulas

· Efficiency (cases per hour)

· Yield (cases per lb)

· That in process documents are in compliance, are accurate, and in the proper frequency

· Employees are in specified areas and labor has met specification guidelines

· That breaks and lunches are timely and in accordance with the shift

· Cleanliness

· Develop subordinates' ability to understand, manage, and affect the department in a positive professional way by ensuring that all employees (as required) have been trained in the areas of:

· OSHA regulated programs

· Food Defense, GMP’s, HAACP, CCP Procedures

· Quality

· Cleanliness

· Communicable Disease Policy

· Reading and understanding production specifications

· Understanding and recording of data on process documents

Position Requirements:

· Math and reading skills

· Ability to lift, bend, stoop, and stand for long periods of time

· Regular and reliable attendance