Assistant Production Supervisor - 3rd shift

Assistant Production Supervisor - 3rd shift

Department: Production/Admin, Solutions

Location: Carol Stream, IL

Type: Full-time

The Assistant Production Supervisor supports daily manufacturing operations, ensuring compliance with BRC, GMP, HACCP, and other regulatory requirements. This role assists the Production Supervisor in coordinating production activities, leading production personnel, and maintaining consistent product quality, safety, and efficiency. The Assistant Production Supervisor is responsible for ensuring that all manufacturing, packaging, sanitation, and documentation activities meet company standards, customer requirements, and applicable regulatory guidelines.

This position plays a key role in maintaining audit readiness, supporting continuous improvement, and fostering a strong culture of food safety and quality.

• Ensure products are manufactured, blended, packaged, and labeled in accordance with approved batch records, work orders, SOPs, GMPs, and BRC requirements.
• Review and verify batch records, blend sheets, process routers, and specifications prior to production.
• Conduct pre-production meetings with the production team to review batch requirements, critical control points, and documentation expectations.
• Assign production tasks and monitor execution to ensure compliance with quality, safety, and efficiency standards.
• Verify correct staging, issuance, and traceability of raw materials, including active ingredients.
• Monitor ingredient additions and blending activities to ensure accuracy and adherence to batch instructions.
• Assist in supervising and verifying completion of blending and processing steps, review and sign batch documentation.
• Ensure packaging line setup is compliant, including equipment preparation, line clearance, labeling verification, and palletization.
• Confirm completion and approval of in-process and finished product testing, including laboratory results and release documentation.
• Review completed batch records, retained samples, Certificates of Analysis (COAs), and lot traceability documentation.
• Ensure accurate and timely data entry into production, quality, and inventory systems.

• Enforce GMP, HACCP, and BRC requirements throughout all production and packaging activities.
• Ensure sanitation and pre-operational inspections are completed by approved sanitation SOPs.
• Verify execution and documentation of daily, weekly, and as-needed cleaning and sanitation programs.
• Maintain strict adherence to allergen controls, foreign material prevention, and contamination prevention programs.
• Ensure proper use, storage, and documentation of cleaning and sanitation chemicals.
• Maintain the facility in a constant state of audit readiness for internal audits, customer audits, and third-party inspections (BRC, FDA, customer audits).
• Support investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions related to non-conforming products, deviations, or customer complaints.

• Assist in enforcing plant safety rules and OSHA requirements.
• Promote a strong safety culture and always ensure safe work practices.
• Support compliance with environmental, regulatory, and company safety standards.
• Ensure the facility is maintained in a clean, organized, and customer-ready condition at all times.

• Assist in monitoring production schedules and recommend adjustments to optimize efficiency and throughput.
• Review prior-week production performance and inventory levels to ensure alignment with production plans.
• Assist in identifying and implementing process improvements related to quality, productivity, and waste reduction.
• Perform and coordinate light maintenance, changeovers, and equipment setup as required.

• Assist in training new and existing employees on GMPs, BRC requirements, production processes, equipment operation, documentation practices, sanitation, quality, and safety.
• Reinforce food safety culture and accountability among production personnel.

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and guidance to production operators, including full-time and temporary employees.
• Support employee engagement, performance management, and development.
• Assist in resolving employee concerns through effective communication and problem-solving.
• Balance quality, safety, productivity, cost control, and employee morale to meet operational objectives.

• Assist in supervising Production Operators, including regular and temporary employees.
• Assisting in training, assigning work, and ensuring compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability…