Production Senior Supervisor

Job Summary

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the growth, profitability and enhancement of the business by supervising the shop floor activities 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 policies.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a science related field preferred
• 3+ years flavor batching experience
• 3+ years of Demonstrated Leadership (5+ employees) experience over a Production food industry team.
• OR 3+ years of Process Engineering within a production plant setting
• Strong understanding of flavor batch processing sequence in order to properly support this function.
• Project management experience.
• Six Sigma Training.
• Working SAP knowledge.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, 401k, vacation, holidays, paid parental leave (maternity and paternity), and an annual bonus plan

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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