Taylor Farms is a family owned organization dedicated to being North America’s largest supplier of salads, cut vegetables, and healthy fresh foods. Our “Taylor Family” includes more than 8,000 dedicated team members, who are passionate about making high quality, great tasting products for families across North America.
Taylor Farms has a career opportunity available for a talented and motivated individual to join our team in Chicago, IL as a Production Supervisor.
The Production Supervisor leads and supervises a team of Assistant Supervisors or Supervisors in a large food production area to meet daily production goals. The candidate is expected to understand goals and costs while constantly driving out inefficiency and seeking to improve processes. Maintaining a positive attitude and having the ability to work well with a diverse team will be an essential quality of this applicant.
- Associates degree or equivalent food production experience.
- Safety and sanitation certifications.
- 2 to 3 years of supervisory experience.
- 3-5 years of food prep, production or equipment experience.
- Freshly prepared food manufacturing experience preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to communicate in Spanish is helpful.
- Frequently communicates with employees and/or external customers and must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
Physical Demands:
The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time and will frequently be moving product weighing 50 pounds. Often exposed to 30 degree to 40 degree refrigerated environments.
- Responsible for on time startup and correct shutdown of production in assigned department or area.
- Reads and analyzes production data.
- Leads and directs the work flow of multiple areas supervised by direct reports.
- Communicates interdepartmentally to coordinate operations and activities.
- Responsible for safety of employees and seeks solutions to prevent unsafe acts or hazards in areas.
- Responsible for investigating and completing documentation associated with employee accidents and injuries as described in SOP.
- Ensures compliance with production, safety, sanitation, and quality standards procedures.
- Responsible for 5S organization strategies in assigned areas and involves cross-section of team members.
- Weekly 5S Audits are to be conducted in a timely manner and submitted to the appropriate management.
- Responsible for controlling overtime and productivity efficiencies based on standard staffing.
- Facilitates cross training of operators, Assistant Supervisors, and other key positions.
- Creates and coordinates employee schedules with Assistant Supervisor or Supervisor.
- Assures coverage of operators, expeditors, Assistant Supervisors, and other key positions in times of absence, vacations, and turnover.
- Able to read, understand, identify and communicate potential deviations from schedules, standards, procedures, processes, and recipes, with reasons and impact.
- Communicates status of schedules and any related concerns at shift handoff with Production Supervisor of proximate shift.
- Recommends hiring and disciplinary actions, evaluates performance, schedules staff and adjusts time system punches.
- This takes place with verbal communication, as well as, emailing Consolidated Shift Report.
- Reviews information from previous shift and takes any necessary actions.
- Responsible for all documentation related to area assigned.
- Able to investigate, communicate, document, and mediate employee complaints.
- Able to investigate and address employee performance and behaviors with corrective action.
- Provides coverage for Production Manager when necessary.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
