Description

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Team oriented
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English
• Strong Communication skills
• Good People skills
• Maintains good working relationships with the Union, USDA and Maintenance employees
• Bilingual important, but not mandatory.
• Education Requirements (if applicable)

• High School Diploma or GED; substitutable for various years of work experience.
• Minimum of 2-3 years production line experience.
• RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and supervise hourly employees
• Responsible for the motivation and safety of those employees
• Prepare pre-operational paperwork
• Ensure area is properly staffed/crewed to meet operational needs
• Coach and develop employees to obtain results
• Responsible for meeting volume goals, reducing claims, maximizing yields, reducing cost and employee retention
• Reports to Fabrication Office for order sheet (make sheet), attends supervisor meetings, and reports work schedule to line workers daily.
• Evaluates production of previous day to make necessary adjustments.
• Handles any employee grievance, dispute or problem in most efficient manner possible. Any unsolved matter taken up with Area Superintendent.
• Actively participates in group meetings, line meetings, and supervisory meetings.
• Check packaging to ensure it is labeled properly.
• May involve guidance or actual performance of production procedures.
• Perform pre-operational procedures to insure equipment is properly sanitized and in working order.
• Insure employees have proper safety equipment.
• Insure hourly employees are trimming products correctly to minimize product loss.
• Work with the Quality control department to insure product quality.
• Daily work tasks are structured.
• Job performance is measured by the General Foreman on such criteria as the overall production of the line, quality of paperwork, attendance, attitude and supervision of employees.
• Evaluate all newly hired employees during their first month of employment.
• Perform follow-up training on hourly employees.
• Directly involved in disciplinary procedures with hourly employees. These may range from verbal warnings to terminations.
• Contact with line personnel, in addition to plant management.
• Will typically work 50-55 hours per week M-F with some Saturday work if necessary.
• EOE/Vets/Disability