Production Supervisor

Job Description

It’s an exciting time to be part of the IFF team at our South Brunswick, NJ Plant. We are currently seeking a Production Supervisor who will be responsible for the operations management of the Distillation and Extraction, Terpeneless and Emulsions departments.

As the Production Supervisor, in addition to being tasked with the planning and execution of the production schedule, you will also coach / lead a team of operators across multiple shifts.

As an integral part of the Production team you will ensure all responsible areas adhere to budget while ensuring safety, quality, and on-time-performance goals are met.

You will also drive continuous improvement programs to ensure the business remains agile and competitive for our customers.

Contribute to the growth, profitability and enhancement of the business by supervising the shop floor activities of the Vanilla, Distillation and Extraction, Terpeneless and Emulsions departments, ensuring all safety, quality, on-time-performance, and cost targets are met.

• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment and a high level of safety awareness among associates.
• Promote and maintain staff engagement and commitment to food safety and inventory compliance.
• Supply process engineering support regarding internal and external nonconformance in addition to out of trend product results.
• Ensure proper initial and ongoing training is performed and documented to standard. Promote cross training to enhance operational flexibility and avoid capacity delays.

Actively look for continuous improvement opportunities in training methods.

• Continuous optimization of the process equipment and layout to produce quality product efficiently. Lead continuous improvement activities across technologies while providing technical and process engineering support.
• Optimize sequencing, communication, setup, and job execution to produce a quality product, maintaining high service levels.
• Investigate and resolve issues with quality & customer complaints with an outside the box approach.
• Maintain excellent communication with IFF’s Customer Service and Planning teams.
• Utilize effective employee management skills, dealing with difficult employee situations and providing constructive feedback.

Coach, counsel and develop subordinates to grow and fulfill potential within organization.

Perform administrative functions in support of IFF's policies.

Job Requirements

• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Strong ability to mentor, coach and develop.
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office).
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Familiarization with the principles of Lean Manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of Terpeneless, Emulsions, Distillation and Extraction and Vanilla batch processing sequence in order to properly support this function.
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or related science field preferred and / or- 3-5 years Demonstrated Leadership Experience over a Manufacturing Department or Facility.
• Process Engineering experience or exposure.
• Project management experience.
• Six Sigma Training.
30+ days ago