Production Supervisor - Wholesale Produce Supply, LLC

POSITION SUMMARY: The Production Supervisor in our Splits/repack department leads the planning, scheduling, maintenance, inventory management, and execution of operations within the plan. They are responsible for cost-effective planning, processing, production, and shipping of WPS products. Responsibilities include plant optimization to ensure maximum production, quantity, and quality. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE

Team Leadership

• Identify the career development of individual members of staff and work closely with HR on development.
• Providing ongoing training and coaching
• Build and maintain a health work environment which retains and rewards team members.
• Ensuring acceptable quality standards for all processes on their team
• Reporting out to senior management on productivity and other performance indicators and identify solutions.
• Ensuring policies and practices are effectively implemented to help the organization meet its operational and strategic goals
• Accountable for the Operating component of the P&L of the Department, including being able to tell the story behind the numbers.
• Work closely with Purchasing Manager to ensure supplies and budgeting.
• Work with Director of Fresh Manufacturing to create capital improvement wish list and business case (ROI).
• Responsible for producing, reviewing, and analyzing daily, weekly, and monthly reports.

Operational Excellence

• Understand the requirements of each customer and determine product to be consumed.
• Applies knowledge about the customer to inform decision making and problem solving.
• Strives to provide additional value to the customer experience.
• Actively solicits internal customer feedback to improve business relationships.
• Suggests ways to improve the customer experience. Collaborates with colleagues to deliver high-quality service.
• Responsible for ensuring daily Visibility Boards are updated hourly/daily.

Food Safety and Quality

• Communicate quality needs and specs to all line team members for each product (color variation, labels, covers, etc.)
• Cooperates with the Food Safety Quality departments to ensure compliance with all quality SOP's, maintaining audit ready status.
• Respond to Quality issues that arise.

Continuous Improvement

• Coach leaders on change management and activities, identifying best practices.
• Listens and responds to feedback regarding change and uncertainty. 
• Plans, implements, and communicates change initiatives. Anticipates and mitigates obstacles, risks, and business disruptions caused by change initiatives.
• Readily adapts to change and uncertainty.
• Creates an environment that encourages individuals to champion improvements to processes and outputs.
• Ingrains a practice of analyzing and learning from both successes and failures within the department.

Safety First

• Ensures the manufacturing operations comply with safety, quality, and GMP requirements.
• Reporting all incidents in an immediate manner.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment supporting the safety and risk management process.
• Stop production work immediately until hazards or quality issues can be resolved.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• 5+ years of experience working in a warehouse or manufacturing environment
• 3+ years of managing and leading teams with direct reports.
• 2+ years of experience in ERP, MRP or WMS or similar computer systems.
• Must be able to communicate clearly in English, both written and spoken.
• Must be able to effectively utilize Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook, Excel, and Word.
• Understand the value of working as part of a team, and the need of the team to be successful by working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work side-by-side with team members that may not communicate fluently in the same language.
• Is willing to lead by example and demonstrate servant-leadership
• Is willing to resolve problems in a respectful manner
• Individual desires to promote the collective interests of the team more than self-interest
• Must be a self-starter, highly organized; able to work well within all levels of the organization
• Has technical expertise in functional area
• Excellent organizational skills, communication skills, the ability to multi-task and work well as a team

PREFERRED QUALIFIFCATIONS AND SKILLS

• Bilingual a plus
• Produce Pro experience is a big plus, but not required.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to distinguish color for grading produce.
• Ability to work in cool to cold temperatures based off the food safety requirements of the produce.
• Stand in a warehouse environment for the entirety of your shift.
• Ability to work in a medium-high noise environment.
• Lift 30 lbs on a regular basis.

Qualified applicants will be considered for this exciting and rewarding position with a successful and growing company in Minneapolis. We have been in business for over fifty years and continue to be a leader in the Midwest market.

EEO Statement:

Wholesale Produce Supply, LLC. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.