Operations Supervisor

Overview:

The Operations Supervisor is responsible for understanding all aspects of the Packing House operations from the time the fruit is received, processed, and finally shipped. This role is expected to develop individuals and teams to solve operational issues and motivate team members to achieve performance targets. The ideal candidate has experience within the agricultural industry, manufacturing operations, continuous improvement, and/or hands-on experience managing perishable products. Candidates must be able to excel in a fast-paced environment.

Here's what you'll do:

• Responsible for achieving, sustaining, and continuously improving personnel safety, food safety, quality, line effectiveness, equipment optimization, personnel development, and financial results

• Responsible for maximizing departmental production efficiencies while sustaining the highest of quality

• Collaborates with upstream, downstream, and support departments in coordinating production activities to meet operational and business goals

• Make timely and appropriate operational decisions based on multiple and varying factors (safety, time, fruit, staffing, budget, equipment, etc.)

• Maintain an 80% floor presence and 20% administrative focus

Production:

• Achieve production goals by maximizing Pack/Pre-Sort efficiency, fruit utilization and reducing product holds and customer claims

• Plan and manage the day-to-day headcount and staffing requirements by considering operational requirements and labor costs

• Generate accurate production reports and analysis-based production rates and statistics

Logistics:

• Ensure team adherence and continuous improvement of all established operational procedures (i.e. shift start-up, production run, handoff, shutdown and cleaning)

• Manage the maintenance, cleaning, and operation of multiple types of manufacturing and packing equipment

• Identify, develop, and support continuous improvement opportunities

• Manage seamless transitions between one production shift to another as well as to the sanitation department

• Ensure monitoring of, and adherence to, strategic FIFO and WMS inventory functionality across facility and within outside storage facilities

• Manage day-to-day inventory systems, processes, and procedures to ensure achievement of key business results

• Report daily inventories and FIFO position, exceptions, and outages; determine root causes and implement corrective actions

• Coordinate inventory movement and storage across facilities; including external storage, as necessary