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Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin | Schedule: Full-time, on-site (1st & 2nd shifts) | Compensation: $65,000-$75,000 plus bonus

Overview

An established food manufacturing operation is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead hourly production employees during 1st or 2nd shift. This role is central to keeping the production floor running safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards, while training, coaching, and motivating a team to meet daily production goals.

What you'll do

• Perform daily inspections on the production floor to identify unsafe conditions and take immediate corrective action as needed
• Lead safety audits, champion ergonomic initiatives, and ensure adherence to HACCP and USDA regulations
• Maintain product quality by enforcing Food Safety and Food Quality plans, training employees on safe operating procedures (including lock-out/tag-out), and ensuring tasks are performed according to product specifications
• Track and analyze production yields, efficiencies, and variances, working with Operations Managers and Supervisors to improve workflows and equipment use to minimize downtime and reduce costs
• Direct and provide guidance to hourly production employees, ensuring alignment on safety, quality, and production goals
• Lead monthly line meetings and walk the production floor daily
• Analyze key product performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and suggest changes to enhance production efficiency, minimize costs, and maintain high standards of quality

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Business or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience acting as a lead by providing training, coaching, or mentoring to less experienced staff, or through managing a process or project
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to lead problem-solving efforts for complex process issues and solid analytical and math abilities
• Skilled at motivating, training, and coaching employees to achieve peak performance while fostering a positive, respectful, team-oriented work environment
• Adaptable to fast-paced, dynamic environments, capable of working in varying conditions (heat and cold), and willing to work long hours and weekends when needed

Preferred qualifications

• Food or beverage manufacturing background preferred; otherwise, any logistics or warehouse experience

Compensation and benefits

• $65,000-$75,000 salary plus bonus

Why this role

This is an opportunity to lead the front lines of a production operation, playing a pivotal role in training and motivating a team while directly influencing safety, quality, and production performance.