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Form of workProduction Shift Supervisor (2nd Shift)
On-Site Job
Salary Range: $60K to $75K
Shift: 2nd Shift West Side
Why should you join our team?
Steven Charles is part of the rapidly growing Dessert Holdings Family, offering potential career growth opportunities. Dessert Holdings is North America’s fastest growing premium dessert company, recognized for providing retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovative desserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain, and best in class service. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, The Original Cakerie, Lawler’s Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company and most recently, Dianne’s Fine Desserts. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.
The company employs approximately 3,000 people across eight manufacturing facilities and its headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. The manufacturing facilities are geographically dispersed, with two facilities in Canada and one each in Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and North Carolina.
Our location in Aurora, CO has an opening for aProduction Shift Supervisor.
This position is responsible for overseeing the production of quality and safe food as well as ensuring production standards on specific assignments within required time are followed. This position is also responsible for understanding related Quality Management Systems including SQF, HACCP, and GMP to ensure safety and quality of employees and products. The job duties include responsibility for assuring food safety and for food quality for SC products. A supervisor or other person of authority should be notified if any issues or threats to food safety or food quality are observed.
Your Day-to-Day
- Leads and provides direction to up to 80 people at one time.
- Trains and coaches production line employees to meet high quality standards.
- Understands how to safely operate all the equipment within their assigned area of responsibility.
- Ability to read all product formulas, temperatures, and times, according to building sheets and Bill of Materials (BOM).
- Coordinates production startup, shutdown and changeovers
- Coordinates appropriate staffing levels with Production Manager.
- Responsible for employee rotations on the line, employee training, employee breaks.
- Understands how to correctly give direction with a sense of urgency to production line.
- Must ensure that overtime for line employees is kept to a minimum, unless approved by a Production Manager.
- Responsible for reporting and tracking waste and actively identifying ways to reduce waste in accordance with company goals.
- Follows Manager’s instructions and effectively communicates the directions to the line.
- Understands the significance of downtime on the production floor.
- Ability to improve and create more efficiency on the line, while keeping safety top priority.
- Ability to multitask and be detail oriented.
- Responsible for maintaining production records in a timely manner.
- Understands and fills production reports and logs on a daily basis.
- Inspects and gives final sign off on all production labels when necessary.
- Ability to learn and apply First In/First Out rotation.
- Demonstrates ability to meet production standards on specific assignments within a required time.
- Displays appropriate work ethics in the workplace and group settings which provides a positive influence on the production floor.
- Maintains good housekeeping and clean work areas in assigned space.
- Supervises production line in accordance with established Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) policies and procedures.
- Assures that all work assigned is performed in accordance with specifications, instructions and requirements.
- Demonstrates ability to meet production standards on specific assignments within required time.
- Follows production dress code standards and maintains good personal hygiene and makes sure all employees do the same.
- Responsible for food safety and food quality throughout production.
- Leads by example in order to provide a positive influence on the production floor.
- Responsible for notifying a manager when they step off the line to ensure food safety and food quality standards are maintained.
- Schedule and conduct shift meetings with Manager assistance.
- Understands the management of Quality Systems and is familiar with SQF, HACCP, and GMP practices which help ensure the safety within the workplace and the production of a safe and quality product(s)
- Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.
What You Bring to the Team
- Demonstrates good verbal communication skills.
- Able to stay focused in a loud working environment.
- Must have reliable transportation and be able to work a flexible schedule.
- Must be willing to work overtime, including weekends if necessary.
- Must be able to read and write in either English or Spanish.
- Must be able to converse in both English and Spanish.
- Must be able to understand and follow written instructions.
- Must understand basic mathematical concepts.
- Must be able to work in a fast paced, team environment.
- Must be able to work in a manufacturing environment requiring strict work/safety rules 100% of the time.
- Basic computer skills required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Able to stand for at least ten hours per day and may have various repetitive motion duties.
- Use hands and fingers to handle objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms.
- Must be able to stoop, kneel or bend.
- Employee must lift up to 50 pounds and is required to ask for assistance if limit is exceeded.
- Must be able to keep eyes focused on a conveyor belt for a maximum five hours at one time.
- Must be able to work in a food allergens environment.
- Working environment provides exposure to environmental changes (heat, cold, dampness, and chemicals). Employee must be able to sustain these changes throughout the shift.
REQUIRED LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS
- HACCP Certification once hired.
Benefits
Dessert Holdings offers a wide range of benefits to employees. Some are subsidized by the company and others are fully employee-paid. Health benefits include a choice of comprehensive medical plans, a dental plan, vision plan. Dessert Holdings sponsors a 401(k) plan which includes company match. Dessert Holdings offers paid vacation, holidays, and provides wellness/sick, bereavement leave, and others income replacement plans for eligible employees.
EEO Statement
Dessert Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Contact HR if you have any questions.
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