Hearthside Food Solutions is the industry's leading food contract manufacturer, and leader in nutritional bars and baked snacks.
Our product categories include energy bars, snack bars, granola bars, baked bars, cookies, crackers, pretzels, croutons, breadcrumbs, snack components and other baked foods and snacks. Hearthside is also one of the largest food contract packaging companies, we package many foods that people eat every day. Today Hearthside operates 38 production facilities, including three in Europe, and is a volume leader in multiple food categories.
At the heart of every world-class manufacturer, and at the heart of every great company, you will find a unique and valuable culture. Hearthside empowerment culture of continuous improvement and customer focus is the great enabler for the value we create for customers. Explore our website, speak with our people and tour our facilities. The Hearthside culture is a game changer and a powerful competitive advantage for the company and our customers.
To aid the supervisor in providing a safe work environment for line associates while producing a quality product for our customers using cost saving practices and efficiencies with minimal waste.
Main Responsibilities:
The Production Assistant Supervisor is responsible for supporting and maintaining all policies of the company including Health and Safety requirements and supervise and maintain housekeeping in accordance with 5S principles. Drive a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement on the manufacturing floor. Ensure GMP, USDA and other government Standards are being met, Continuous Improvement, and standard work procedures are followed. Monitor and audit standard work according to CI guidelines. Meet schedule compliance targets in relation to order dates. Achieve defined KPI targets. Ensure responses to corrective action requests are accurate, complete and timely. Interact constructively with other departments. Manage and maintain production floor. Complete required production reports. Delegate responsibilities to line group leaders and other employees. Organize meetings for group leaders and other employees to facilitate communication and resolve issues. Identify training needs and coordinate all employee training. Verify and approve payroll hours. In conjunction with Human Resources, document and administer all employee disciplinary act. Daily scheduling of temporary employees based upon production requirements.
What you'll be doing:
Safety: Maintain a safe working environment at all times. Be responsible for maintaining awareness of the plant and reporting any unsafe conditions. Lead and participate in safety awareness meetings and scheduled training sessions.
Quality: Demonstrate a commitment to product quality and instill this mentality in their team. Performed standard work audits and participate in problem solving team meetings.
Schedule compliance: Ensure that all defined quality and production protocols are followed and that delivery dates for finished products are met. Communicate schedule compliance issues to PMM group.
Productivity: Oversee the production process to ensure organizational goals are achieved. Access labor requirements to meet schedule.
Floor Management: Ensure consistent adherence to all company policies and procedures on the production floor. Lead tier 1/morning huddle meetings. Give a constructive feedback to the shift associates to enhance the capabilities and skills of the team.
Team Management: Provide leadership to all production employees on their shift, including but not limited to group leaders to allow performance as a cohesive team. Schedule and facilitate training for the team. Involved in hiring, disciplinary, and employee relations processes.
KEY KPIs Ownership: Ownership of following KPIs to drive profitability in business and meet financial expectations.
Safety - Recordable and non-recordable incidents and incident rate, Quality - quality incidents - 1st article, rework, complaints, scrap, facility audits, Labor productivity - direct labor variance to the standard, labor % tolling to the revenue, labor overtime, Direct labor tolling ratio, OEE - line OEE and labor efficiency
What you'll need:
High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent required
Experience: Production Line experience in a Leadership capacity. Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills; computer skills. Must be able to communicate verbal and written in English; Bilingual a plus.
Work Environment & Physical Demands:
Required to stand and walk, sit, use hands to manipulate, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk, hear, taste and smell. Fast-paced production operations can be expansive, multi-level, and noisy and be very cold or very warm. The employee may be assigned to refrigerated work areas depending on the facility and product handling requirements. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Required vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision and peripheral vision.
