Nelson & Associates Recruiting & Outplacement

http://www.foodrecruiter.com/    email:  nelson@foodrecruiter.com

P.O. Box 2686  Kirkland, WA. 98083    (425)823-0956

SERVING THE RECRUITING NEEDS OF THE FOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

 

                                Process Superintendent          

 

 

Basic Function:

This position is accountable for planning and coordinating all production needs from raw material receiving through in-feed to production and finally to packaging finished product.  This includes scheduling raw material, planning shutdowns and meeting the production plan and budget.  This position will maximize plant capacity while optimizing the use of all resources including capital to meet plant objectives and goals.

 

Essential Duties and Accountabilities:

1.      Cost of Operations.  Ensures efficient and effective resource use at the lowest cost for adherence to production schedule and exception management.  Ensures accurate and organized process documentation in procedures, paperwork and computer business systems. Participates in the development of strategic plans and improvements for the Idaho Campus. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring proper staffing, maintaining budgeted line rates, preventing out of specification production, managing raw material changes, staging materials and/or ingredients, add back of out of specification product, and HOLD product disposition.  Assists in the following areas:

a)     Development of process budgets and cost estimates for new products and line extensions.

b)     Prepares and presents annual process review documents.

c)      Works with Maintenance in the planning and implementation of an effective preventative maintenance program.

d)     Supports the formulation of the capital project plan, including project development and justification.

 

2.      Employee Development.   Ensures the ongoing coaching, development and training of team members and provides for an effective, productive work environment.  Develops Team Leader and Shift Superintendent knowledge of the processes.  Communicates effectively between shifts and functional areas, including contact with Division and Corporate personnel.  Participates in shift change meetings. Uses enabling technologies (e.g. E-mail, voice mail) and written notes to facilitate communication.  Facilitates communication between the Operations and Maintenance departments.  This includes developing open communications and teamwork between operations and maintenance employees.  Be well versed in Agilisys and Operations Reporting and have the ability to access on a daily basis to input and extract pertinent information and correct errors.  Be able to assist Operators with their data input.

 

3.      Customer Satisfaction.  Supervises product quality by adherence to product and packaging specifications, GMPS & Sanitation Guidelines, FM prevention, inline routine sanitation, and area sanitation and tool inspection.  Participates in customer contacts via customer complaint responses.

 

4.      Employee Safety.  Supervises safety performance by using SAFE principles, attends regular safety meetings and assists in development of safety meeting topics.  Assists in safety inspections and ensures orderliness of work areas. 

 

5.      Environmental, Waste Reduction.   Helps maintain smooth relationship with potato solid waste customers (Currently WECO).   Minimizes the wastes generated by processing and assists with recycle were possible.

 

6.      Community Support.  Participates in community improvement and encourages staff to do so. 

 

 

Qualifications:

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

 

Education and/or Experience:

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in plant production.  Special skills required, but not limited to, are exceptional people skills, oral and written communication expertise, intermediate operating knowledge of personal computers, which includes experience with Microsoft Office software (WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK, etc.), the ability to coordinate multiple projects and a working knowledge of statistics. 

 

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple to complex instructions, correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write various types of documents including, but not limited to instructions, disciplinary action, performance reviews, project justifications, and correspondence with government regulatory agencies.  Ability to effectively facilitate meetings and present information verbally in one-on-one or large groups (20+) situations.

 

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to creatively apply experience and common sense to a variety of situations, processes and people.  Ability to act as a troubleshooter and engineer to resolve both short and long term issues such as, product quality, safety, variation in raw material, process conditions, mechanical problems, electrical problems and computer problems.  Ability to determine how to make most efficient use of people.  Ability to recognize when adjustments to the process are in order due to changing line conditions and variation in raw material.  Ability to decide when and how to take malfunctioning equipment down for repair and develop a plan to return the equipment on line as quickly as possible.

 

Physical Demands:

Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The process environment is hot and humid. The employee is regularly required to talk and hear in both an office environment and a loud production environment.

 

The employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.  The employee must be able to sit and operate a personal computer.

 

The employee must be able to drive a vehicle and may be required to travel occasionally in a car and/or airplane depending on operational requirements. 

 

This position may require weekend and off shift work schedules.  There may be the need to work long hours during various times during the year.

 

 

Supervisory Accountabilities:

This position reports to the Campus Value Stream Managers

 

 

Direct Reports

Up to 12 production Team Leaders and 3 Packaging Team Leaders

 

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.  The employee occasionally must access high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and extreme heat.  In dealing with each of these hazards the proper safety equipment must be used.  The employee is also regularly in an office environment.

 

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud, requiring hearing protection.