Litehouse
Location
Danville, VA | United States
Job description
Production Supervisor
Litehouse Foods is looking to hire a motivated full-time Production Supervisor on 2nd Shift. Would you like to work for a 100% employee-owned food processing company with an outstanding reputation as both a community leader and a great place to work? This supervisory position in manufacturing earns competitive pay, depending on experience. We also offer excellent benefits, including health, dental, vision, a 401(k) with matching, paid time off (PTO), and life insurance. If this sounds like the right leadership opportunity in food processing for you, consider applying today!
ABOUT LITEHOUSE FOODS
The Hawkins family started selling their homemade dressings out of the family's restaurant in Hope, ID over 50 years ago. Today, we are the leading producer and marketer of refrigerated salad dressings, cheeses, dips, sauces, and freeze-dried herbs. Our vision is to improve life one community, one table, and one bite at a time. Our pillars of operation are people, customer service, quality, and growth.
We keep a strong commitment to our employees and the communities in which we operate. Our founders believed that all of the people who make Litehouse great deserve to benefit from its success. That is why they transferred 30% of the company's ownership to its employees in 2006 and 100% by 2014. Home-grown and home-sustained, we empower all members of our organization to spark the innovations and great new ideas that will propel us into the future. We work to provide our employee-owners opportunities to succeed.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
As a Production Supervisor, you have the valuable role of partnering with management to establish production and quality control standards as well as develop budgets and cost controls. You obtain important data regarding the types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of products. Additionally, you plan and direct production activities in the portion control and packaging departments. You work to optimize production and efficiently use human resources, machines, and equipment. You manage safety programs, including adherence to food processing safety guidelines. You keep accurate and up-to-date time and production records.
You also interview, hire, and train employees. Under your excellent leadership, they are inspired to take pride in their work. Your style of management fosters teamwork, respect, accountability, and trust. You manage production schedules, including revising priorities due to equipment failure or operating problems. To determine the causes of nonconformity and other issues, you analyze the production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports. You then implement methods designed to eliminate problems and improve product quality. You take great pride in helping to produce a premium product!
QUALIFICATIONS FOR A PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Are you a team player with good interpersonal skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment? Do you have good communication skills, both verbal and written? Are you an efficient problem-solver who is always looking for ways to improve? If so, you might just be perfect for this Production Supervisor position!
MANUFACTURING WORK SCHEDULE
This leadership position in food processing requires traveling up to 5% of the time. Very little prior warning and extended periods of time up to a week should be expected.
READY TO JOIN OUR MANUFACTURING TEAM?
We understand your time is valuable, so we have a very quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this supervisory food processing job in a manufacturing environment, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application. We look forward to meeting you!
BENEFITS
We do not offer sponsorship
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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