Production Supervisor

The Production Supervisor is responsible for overseeing a certain aspect of the Production department, such as Cold Kitchen, Tray Setup, and/or Hot Kitchen. This individual may have specific individuals assigned or specific tasks and roles. Regardless of the scope, the responsibilities and expectations are to ensure that meals are completed in a timely, safe, and quality manner by our Production team.

This individual is a hands‑on supervisor who may need to complete meals occasionally. This individual will need to be competent with the ability to develop, train, and hold people accountable through clear expectations.

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• 1‑2 years’ experience in inflight catering or airport hub environment, manufacturing, logistics, or food industry managing 50 non‑exempt level employees

• Good leadership ability
• Good communication skills with ability to communicate with non‑exempt to upper management levels
• Ability to effectively handle conflict and de‑escalate emotionally charged situations
• Good understanding of OSHA, HR, and other employment laws
• Good knowledge of investigation procedures and root cause analysis
• Understanding of lean manufacturing principles and operational processes
• Good knowledge of HACCP & food safety standards
• Good problem solving and decision‑making skills
• Resilient self‑starter, who can act independently and learn quickly within a rapidly evolving environment
• Ability in showing self‑initiative and follow‑through
• Detail‑oriented and ability to see big picture
• Good ability with Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills
• Good attention to detail and observation ability

• Supervisory and Management:
  Supervises a part of the Production department, manages and supervises the work of assigned employees within the department, motivates and inspires team members to perform above expectations through proper recognition methods and programs.
• Operational:
  Takes ownership of the operations by taking full responsibility of your assigned area, ensures that all meals are completed accurately in a timely manner and with high quality according to the datasheets and clients’ requirements, ensures that processes are as efficient as possible, empowers team members to identify and resolve operational issues, brings up to management’s attention any concerns and recommendations to such concerns, communicates with the warehouse department of any stock item needs, foresees needs or problems that may arise and has action plans in place to avoid production disruptions, clearly and confidently communicates with client representatives as needed, fills in as needed to maintain flow of operations.
• Quality and Safety:
  Ensures that all processes conform to the customer and Newrest specifications, complies at all times with good hygiene and manufacturing practices (eg, hazard analysis and critical control points [HACCP], FIFO), carries out cleaning, washing, and sanitation of premises in accordance with cleaning plan, investigates and completes incidents/accidents documentation, enforces safety processes and legal requirements for all processes.
• Human Resources:
  Assists in interviewing and determining the individuals to join your department, approves time off requests and other leaves of absences, assists in performing performance reviews for all department team members, approves all timecards and resolves timecard discrepancies, mentors and coach team members and provide corrective actions as required, regular and timely attendance is expected for the position.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk and/or hear. The majority of the shift is spent walking and standing with frequently bending down or over.

The employee is frequently required to use hands to handle or feel. The employee must also occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The temperature of the environment may fluctuate drastically from very cold to warm temperatures with a majority of the time spent in cold temperature environment that is below freezing. The noise level may range from moderate to very loud.

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