Description

 Benefits include: 

• 10 Days of Vacation, after 60 days of employment
• Benefits at 60 days of employment, 401K contributions on day 1 of employment
• 70% off quality Pilgrim’s poultry products
• Advancement opportunities
• Better Futures Program – 2 Year Community College tuition paid for you or your dependents!

• Hires, trains, coaches, and motivates employee team members to achieve their maximum quality and productivity performance. Facilitates and encourages employee involvement through crew meetings, safety teams, audits, problem solving, etc. 
• Directs and monitors the operations of the department.  Makes recommendations and works to plan and implement process improvements.
• Promotes department and company goodwill through proactive employee communication. Supports and promotes company position on union free status by maintaining open communication and feedback to employees.
• Schedules people, materials, and equipment to most effectively and efficiently utilize departmental resources to achieve the mission of Pilgrim’s. Determines work assignments and makes changes as necessary to accommodate staffing and production needs of the department.
• Responsible for the performance evaluation process for the department. Prepares and issues performance evaluations and approves those prepared by process leaders for the department.
• Is proactive in achieving standard or above standard results in yield, efficiency and quality while maintaining a safe work environment.
• Supports problem solving teams and takes an active role on teams as needed.
• Monitors equipment and quality checks to assure quality and productivity standards are maintained.
• Promotes safe work habits through training, recognizing safety hazards, performing safety audits, and completing accident investigations.
• Facilitates the development and implementation of departmental goals, objectives, and budget, ensuring that necessary records to track, monitor and explain any variances from budgeted goals are established.  Promotes communication and understanding of departmental goals.      

• Observe & enforce all company personnel, quality, safety, and food safety policies.
• Maintains a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you work effectively and cooperatively with customers, clients, coworkers, and leadership teams.
• Participates in process improvement and problem solving utilizing continuous improvement and rational thinking methodologies.
• Recognizes and acts on incidents and safety risks.  Consistently practices and enforces safe work habits and drives those habits throughout the organization. 

• Observe & enforce all company personnel, quality, safety, and food safety policies.
• Considerable knowledge of process operations and practices.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university preferred; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Considerable knowledge of supervisory practices and procedures
• Strong ability to analyze and solve production problems.
• Ability to lead and coach employees and projects.
• Good English verbal and written communication skills, bi-lingual skills desired
• Basic computer skills required (e-mail, time & attendance, etc.) and intermediate skills preferred (spreadsheet and word processing)
• Conflict management skills
• Good organizational skills
• Knowledge of cultural issues
• Good math aptitude
• Basic mechanical knowledge
• Ability to pass PFT Testing for respirator use.
• Completes Lockout/Tagout training and is aware of requirements for Lockout/Tagout safety as well as the company safety programs and policies.
• Valid Pilgrim’s Pallet jack license or ability to obtain license within 30 days.
• Class A CDL or ability to obtain within 6 months.