• Job Description

  Req#: 112031
  Your Opportunity as the Production Supervisor
  This role will be responsible for the leadership and business results of a team of hourly Technicians and Team Leaders; ensure the team meets safety, quality, and operational standards; and facilitate team development and skill building through coaching and mentoring team members.
  
  Location: Memphis, TN
  
  Work Arrangements: 100% on-site
  • Willingness to work off shift (including nights, and/or weekends) and flow to the work as needed
  
  Reports to: Department Manager

  In this role you will:

  • Provide leadership and direction to Safety, Quality, PR, and HR related issues
  • Deliver team results and manage monthly scorecard and quarterly meetings
  • Ensure appropriate staffing of the technician team
  • Aid in coaching and developing Team Leaders
  • Ability to identify gaps/losses within organization and leverage high performance work tools to Plan-Do-Check-Act
  • Build technical skill level of all technicians
  • Ensures a safe work environment for team by demonstrating and enforcing safe behavior
  • Is a constant leadership presence on the plant floor
  • Effectively communicates expectations, provides timely feedback to performance to those expectations, and takes timely and appropriate disciplinary action when necessary
  • Promotes engagement and maximum effort through demonstrated behaviors and positive recognition
  • Actively demonstrates respect for all people, product, processes, equipment, and customers
  • All Staff shall be informed of their responsibility to report food safety problems to personnel with authority to initiate action
  • Provide tools and environment to ensure food safety
  • Sense of Urgency to escalate Quality or Food Safety issues
  • Understand, prioritize, and eliminate losses by assigning responsibility
  • Build and execute effective daily plans to achieve finished goods schedule
  • Facilitates shift pre-shift meeting, setting up plan, making projections and implementing mid shift corrections
  • Makes cost-conscious business decisions in alignment with all key accountabilities

  The Right Place for You

  We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs , and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

  What we are looking for:

  Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree - engineering discipline or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of manufacturing operational experience
  • Proven leadership capabilities.
  • Effectively meet external customer requirements
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Prioritize work in a high demand work environment
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Self-motivated and able to motivate others

  Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

  • Lean manufacturing experience or implementation

  • Experience coaching, developing, and leading others
  • Project planning experience
  • Prior experience managing people and/or teams in a high-performance work environment
  • Food processing, pet, or human food manufacturing, and/or engineering experience

  Learn more about working at Smucker:

  • Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
  • Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
  • Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity

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• About the company

  The J M Smucker Company, also known as Smucker and Smucker's, is an American manufacturer of jam, peanut butter, jelly, fruit syrups, beverages, shortening, ice cream toppings, oils, and other products in North America.

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