Food Production Supervisor

The Role

A Food Production Supervisor at My Forest Foods is responsible for managing and leading a team of Production Operators in food production, with a strong focus on driving individual contributor performance, scheduling, task and role assignment, safety practices, SOP development, and driving production growth for MyForest branded products. This role will play a vital role in ensuring an engaged, safe, and high-performing production team while meeting quality, safety, and productivity targets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the team of Operators and Leads to ensure full shift coverage, cross training, advancement, performance improvement, hiring and terminations where necessary.
• Responsible for ensuring individual contributor performance meets or exceeds the standards of MyForest Foods including but not limited to attendance, attitude, attention to work, flexibility, collaboration, communication, safety
• Responsible for providing prompt, direct, and documented coaching or disciplinary action when individual contributors do not meet the standards above.
• Lead and oversee the production of MyBacon & MyPulled Pork branded products within the PR2 and warehouse, consistently meeting or exceeding quality, safety, and productivity goals.
• This is achieved by spending >80% of time in the food production space
• Responsible for driving productivity without compromising on quality or safety by ensuring production pace, full staffing on time, and working with the Production Manager to optimize process flow
• Run production trials in the room and help the team understand how to time and compare process flows to promote continuous labor and volume improvement
• Collaborate with management to define production facility requirements and provide recommendations for creating a conducive production environment that promotes employee well-being and high performance.
• Ensure the My Forest Foods production team is appropriately staffed to achieve company goals, while striving to build a world-class food production team.
• Enforce the standards and practices outlined in the Food Safety Plan, Quality System, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and other relevant regulations.
• Responsible for ensuring daily that the sanitation plan is followed and all food safety and batch record data is collected and accurate.
• Responsible for timely execution of any corrective actions as specified by the above systems. Including scheduling/supervising re-training as needed.
• Responsible for providing prompt, direct, and documented coaching or disciplinary action when individual contributors do not adhere to food safety, sanitation plans or practices.
• Manage the flow and inspection of incoming production materials.
• Effectively manage the production schedule to meet order commitments.
• Applies Lean Manufacturing principles across all aspects of work
• 5S, DOWNTIME acronym, coaches Production Operators on process bottlenecks and how to address them to maximise production
• Oversee the packaging and storage of finished food products.
• Track inventory of raw materials and finished goods
• Employs visual management strategies (e.g. Kanban) as well as company software
• Expiration date of incoming materials is clearly visible to the team, and production planning is adjusted to ensure we do not lose any product.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Ability to work independently.

Minimum Qualifications and Competencies:

• College degree highly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in food production with a leadership mindset
• At least 2 years of experience leading a food production team in a large-scale food production facility.
• Food production experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably with produce and/or vegetarian or vegan products
• Demonstrated excellence in managing and developing high-performance production teams.
• Strong interest in the meat alternative market and ability to compare traditional products to alternative meat products.

• Motivational and authentic leader of people and teams
• Inspired by the opportunity to make a significant impact on the planet.
• Committed to creating the world's most delicious foods.
• Skilled in identifying and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Data-driven and systems thinker
• Collaborative approach, working effectively across cross-functional teams to drive growth.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and embraces change.
• Confident in suggesting ideas and receiving feedback.
• Safety-oriented mindset, actively seeking ways to improve safety in the workplace.
• Familiarity with Google Apps platform (email, calendar, sheets, docs, forms) and Slack
• ServSafe and/or HACCP/HARPC certifications
• Strong emphasis on GMP’s, quality control and cleanliness
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Pay Range $80,000 - $120,000