Production Supervisor, 3rd shift Job at Brakebush Chicken in Irving

Overview

Production Supervisor, 3rd shift at Brakebush Chicken. This role focuses on the effective placement and utilization of team members, equipment, and other resources to ensure quality product, high yields, and line efficiency. The position collaborates with multiple departments (e.g., other Production lines, Safety, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Sanitation) to achieve food safety and minimize downtime, waste, inefficiencies, and costs.

Responsibilities

• Use effective supervision, training, and ongoing feedback to empower teams to meet or exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management, and food/personal safety.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs, HACCP, and SQF.
• Coordinate and guide the team through production situations such as startups, shutdowns, product changeovers, change management concerns, and sanitation.
• Facilitate performance appraisals and progressive corrective actions to promote positive and safe teamwork environments; identify areas for individual and team development.
• Improve quality, yields, and throughput on the designated line.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated three years of supervisory or leadership experience with a food-processing or manufacturing company leading a production team, OR a bachelor’s degree with a prior Food Science or Poultry Science (or closely related) internship.
• Demonstrated production knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach, and the ability to model composure and make decisions in stressful situations.
• Proven time-management and organizational skills with competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams); ability to write reports and create spreadsheets with formulas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Poultry facility experience
• Supervisory experience in a food processing setting (Water Jet Cutting, Further Processing experience preferred)
• Experience with SAP or Infinity
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will supervise the production team members at the Irving facility.

Work Environment

Wide variations in environment temperature (−10°F freezer, 32°F coolers, 40°F plant), noise, slippery floors, and moving equipment.

Physical Demands

Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, wearing factory-required equipment, walking, visual tasks, responding quickly to sounds, and driving.

Position Type

This is an exempt position. The shift varies: first, second, third, or floater. Some Saturday work required.

Travel

Travel is not required.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.

Brakebush 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.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.