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Production Supervisor

Niagara Bottling, LLC, Hutchins, TX, United States


Production Supervisor
At Niagara, we're looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

This position is responsible for supervising daily operations of the production floor; ensuring the shift meets the established safety, quality, and production goals in compliance with all applicable legal and food safety requirements.

Essential Functions

Manages and directs activities of assigned shift, ensuring product adheres to Niagara's standard of safety, quality, and throughput.

Maintains effective working relationships with team members through open communication, visibility, and involvement to promote a positive working environment that maximizes safety, employee engagement, productivity, and throughput.

Analyzes the production schedule prior to shift start and adjusts team member assignments to meet production targets. Verifies discrete jobs are correct in Oracle (including quality and bill of material list), Warehouse Management System, and/or Line Management System.

Responsible for team member coaching and development, employment decisions, and resolving issues through conflict resolution. Hires, trains, coaches and reviews performance of team members. Partners with Human Resources and Production Manager for recruitment, corrective actions, and terminations.

Inspects raw materials prior to changeovers to ensure correct inventories for production runs. Performs first pass quality checks after changeovers to prevent non-conforming product.

Collaborates with the Maintenance Department to resolve downtime occurrences on the production lines.

Completes shift reports for production numbers, downtime, attendance, overtime and quality checks for submission to the Production Manager.

Conducts walkthroughs throughout the shift to ensure safety, quality, and housekeeping compliance by team members.

Interfaces with multiple departments within the organization to ensure customer deadlines are met.

Participates in interviews with hiring managers.

Collaborates with plant leadership and shift team members to champion a world-class safety culture.

Conducts weekly safety talk trainings, daily safety/quality/production meetings, and hourly safety walks.

Adheres to the highest standards of company and plant safety programs, guidelines, rules, and regulations.

Abides by Niagara's Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Food Safety Standards at all times. Develops, recommends, and implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.

Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shift team members.

Monitors and reviews assigned team members time and attendance for accuracy. Utilizes the Efficiency Improvement Tools to understand and comment on line downtime and communicate appropriately per the escalation plan.

Ability to work 12 hour shifts, day or night, on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or schedule as dictated by production demand.

Note: This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

4 Years Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment

4 Years Experience in a similar position

4 Years Experience managing people/projects

Understanding of production processes and controls

Preferred Qualifications:

6 Years Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment

6 Years Experience working in a similar position

6 Years Experience managing people/projects

Education
Minimum Required:

High School Diploma or GED

Preferred:

Associate's Degree

Benefits

Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time

Paid parental and caregiver leaves

Medical, including virtual care options

Dental

Vision

401(k) with company match

Health Savings Account with company match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members

Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements

Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan

Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.

Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities

And more!

https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits

Location
DALLAS 2

Los Angeles County applicants only. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act, and any other applicable local and state laws.

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