Production Supervisor

Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products.  We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world.  Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers.  While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world’s best-known companies.

Position: Production supervisor 

Location:  Atitalaquia

Reports to: Manufacturing manager

Purpose of the Position:

• To coordinate the production areas (liquids & dry blends) to complete the production plan keeping the staff safety, the food safety, the equipment conditions & the quality of the products.
• To ensure the accomplishment of internal procedures & politics of safety, food safety, quality, environmental & GMP.
• To maintain a good work environment.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

• Daily tracking & accomplishment of the production plan.
• Delivering of relevant information to the next shift & to management team. In proper time & way (shift to shift, shift report, closing of the week & starting of the week).
• Leading the DMSII with his or her partners of other areas & giving follow up to the SQDCM dimensions.
• To assign activities to union operative staff according to the priorities of the production plan.
• To deliver the finished products to warehouse.
• To record the production volume in the ERP & to close the production process in the ERP (packing material withdraw, raw material conciliation) 
• To supervise the washing of the equipment according to procedures in the correct frequency.
• Back up of the quality supervisor to release the cleaning of the equipment.
• To apply discipline to union operative staff in case of deviations & to dive the proper following.
• To give feedback about the union staff to receive categories upgrade.
• Control of payroll incidences: absenteeism, overtime, permits, vacations etc. The information must be reported in the proper ways & systems.
• To program the vacations of the union staff & to get the back up to avoid any impact in the production plan.
• To participate in the implementation of new products & process in the shopfloor.
• To report all the breakdowns, damages to installation in the proper system & time (Fiix, daily shift report, DMSII). Also, all the detected risks in the working of the equipment must be properly reported to the maintenance team.
• To collaborate with maintenance area to execute the preventive maintenance in time.
• To supervise the correct use of equipment, tools & installations.
• To check in advance the production plan & to report any risk to top management.
• To supervise the yield of the products to avoid cost & service impacts.
• To participate actively in audits (internal & external).
• To manage the internal production warehouse.
• To collaborate with the HACCP team or to be part of the team.
• To verify the filling of production documentation & records in the shopfloor (checklists).
• To ensure the delivery of product samples to quality control lab.
• To ensure the verification & record of CCP for all the production process in the shopfloor. To report any deviation to the corresponding area (maintenance, quality).
• To ensure the proper information in the product (best before date, labeling, primary pack, secondary pack).
• To collaborate actively in the OKAM program. With his or her own ideas & promoting the program with
• To ensure the weight control in the packing lines.
• To participate in the RCA of all deviations that need a deep level of analysis. At any dimension (SQCDPM).
• To collaborate in the action plans generated by RCA, audits,

Requirements:   

• Industrial engineer, Foods engineer, Chemical engineer.

• 3 years of experience in similar position (food & packaging).

• Rotative shifts.