Production Supervisor
A long-established food manufacturing operation needs a hands-on Production Supervisor to lead daily production, protect food and employee safety, and keep output, quality, cost, and staffing priorities aligned through normal operations and a demanding seasonal harvest.
The strongest candidate has led hourly teams in food, beverage, packaging, canning, dairy, or another high-speed regulated manufacturing environment. This individual must be comfortable making real-time decisions when equipment, labor, quality, or crop flow changes the production plan.
Location: Ripon, Wisconsin
Schedule: Outside harvest, the primary schedule is first shift, typically 4x10-hour days. During harvest from July through October, supervisors must be flexible to rotate between 5:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m. crew assignments IF NEEDED. Harvest includes one scheduled day off weekly and may require extended hours or schedule changes based on crop flow and weather.
Work Setting: Onsite
Role Type: Direct hire, full-time
Openings: 1 anticipated opening
Compensation: $70-$85K/year
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid time off and additional employer benefits
- Employer-supported technical training and certification opportunities
Responsibilities
- Lead production employees and processes so products meet quality, food-safety, output, and specification requirements.
- Build and execute daily production plans, schedules, and assignments.
- Monitor production costs, downtime, staffing, and operating priorities.
- Complete production, quality, safety, incident, and shift records accurately.
- Coordinate with quality, maintenance, sanitation, warehouse, and plant leadership.
- Make timely decisions involving product quality, staffing, employee concerns, and equipment interruptions.
- Train, coach, evaluate, and develop employees.
- Reinforce GMPs, sanitation, food safety, employee safety, and company policies.
- Support sanitation readiness, production supplies, budget inputs, and adjacent management coverage.
Qualifications
- Approximately 3–5 years of frontline manufacturing leadership experience.
- Two or more years of relevant food-manufacturing experience or training; a related degree may substitute for part of the experience.
- Experience leading hourly employees, assigning work, coaching performance, and managing changing production conditions.
- Working knowledge of GMPs, food safety, sanitation, safety, and production documentation.
- Strong organization, communication, decision-making, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Willingness to work extended hours, nights, weekends, and rotating harvest assignments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Canning, thermal processing, container closure, high-speed packaging, or seasonal food-production experience.
- Knowledge of FDA, USDA, OSHA, AIB, HACCP, SQF, or BRCGS requirements.
- Better Process Control School, Thermal Processing, Container Closure, or related training.
- Experience with production metrics, CMMS work orders, incident reports, shift recaps, or continuous improvement.