Job Purpose and Impact

As Shift Supervisor Production, you lead and coordinate all production activities during your shift to ensure safe, efficient and high-quality operations. You provide daily leadership to operators and packing employees, ensuring production targets, food safety requirements, and quality standards are achieved. You are a visible presence on the shop floor, supporting employees, solving operational challenges, and promoting continuous improvement. You work in a 3-shift system and report to the Production Manager. This role plays a key part in maintaining a strong safety culture, delivering operational excellence, and developing engaged teams in a food manufacturing environment.​‌

Key Accountabilities

• Assist in execution of day-to-day operations for assigned area, ensuring reports are following policies and procedures related to employee safety and food and feed safety.
• Monitor risks associated with products and ensure the quality of the product meets customer specifications.
• Maintain adherence to company safety and hygiene standards.
• Ensure employee and product safety at all times by completing full training according to task procedures and individual needs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, efficiency and operational performance.
• Mentor production workers and participate in their selection. Handle holidays, welfare, performance reviews and engagement, highlight training gaps and needs, disciplines, performance management and absent management.
• Identify risks and recommend areas of improvement and innovation.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Effective communication and team development skills.
• Computer literate
• Previous experience as team leader in a production environment or shown ability in a skilled operative position with the willingness to undertake further qualification if required.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply
• Fluent in Dutch and English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of HACCP, food safety and quality systems.
• Experience leading operators, production teams or packaging teams.
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, 5S or Kaizen.
• Experience analysing production KPIs including output, downtime, yield and waste.
• Fluent Dutch language skills and a good working knowledge of English.