Production Supervisor

Job Details

Job Location

Holsum of Fort Wayne Fort Wayne - Fort Wayne, IN

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

High School

Travel Percentage

None

Job Shift

Any

Description

Lewis Bakeries was founded in 1925 and is one of the few remaining independent bakeries in the Midwest. Our team is devoted to producing high quality products including Bunny Bread, Lewis Loaf, Healthy Life, Sunbeam, and Hartford Farms, to name a few. Lewis is looking for qualified candidates to fill our Production Supervisor position in Evansville, IN.

This position reports to the Production Manager and is responsible for implementing best practices and standards for product and process to promote efficient production of consistent quality bread or roll products. This position has direct responsibility of ensuring all work activities under its span of control are performed with attention to the highest standards of food quality, safe processes, compliance with all appropriate legal requirements and a focus on continuous process improvement.

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

Implement company standards for formulas, scaling weights, pan sizes, bag sizes, bake times, and all production control processes for bread and roll products

Train, coach, oversee, provide feedback and assess Production staff and overall bakery production performance

Strong leadership skills with the proven ability to set a vision, manage change, develop others, and strategically plan for continuous improvement

Ability to plan and coordinate use of manpower, ingredients and equipment to ensure efficient production of consistent quality products

Direct resources of plant and equipment toward the most efficient production of baked goods

Implement best practices to achieve company standards on controllable costs

Promote safety through work procedures, and employee safety programs

Ability to trouble shoot equipment to ensure optimum product quality is achieved

Ensure that consistent quality product is provided to Sales on a timely basis

Evaluate product quality to ensure compliance with established standards

Collaborative and able to build/maintain partnering relationships with other departments

Demonstrated ability to function successfully in a fast paced, changing work environment

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JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum of 5 years of work experience in a high speed manufacturing environment required,

1-2 years of High Speed Bread and or Roll experience highly preferred

Minimum of 3years work experience in a supervisor position

Understands the unique equipment in a large scale bakery production plant, along with operation of that equipment relative to the baking process

Solid understanding in the functionality of ingredients with time and temperature in the baking process

Basic computer skills, Outlook, Excel, Word, etc PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Union management experience is strongly desired

Completion of American Institute of Baking (AIB) in-residence baking science and technology course and AIB Science of Baking correspondence course strongly desired (NOT A MUST)

Knowledge of BRC & BSCI standards is highly preferred

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