Job Title
People and Production Supervisor, 2nd Shift
Company Name
Amy's Kitchen
Company website
Company Overview
Founded in 1987 by former CEO Andy Berliner and Rachel Berliner, incorporated since 1988, and still family owned and operated, Amy's Kitchen took its name from their then-newborn daughter, Amy. All of Amy's 250+ products are vegetarian and made with organic ingredients. The company has over 120 vegan offerings and makes over 130 gluten-free products.
At Amy’s, we make it easy and enjoyable for everyone to eat well. We are a family owned, proudly independent organic food company and Certified B Corporation® whose purpose is to make it easy and enjoyable for everyone to eat well. The company is committed to cooking authentic great tasting food with high quality, meticulously sourced organic ingredients and making them convenient for consumers.
Build a career with Amy’s and make a difference!
At Amy’s, we make it easy and enjoyable for everyone to eat well. We are a family owned, proudly independent organic food company and Certified B Corporation® whose purpose is to make it easy and enjoyable for everyone to eat well. The company is committed to cooking authentic great tasting food with high quality, meticulously sourced organic ingredients and making them convenient for consumers.
Build a career with Amy’s and make a difference!
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Job Duties
Amy’s People and Production Supervisor is integral in achieving our vision of building a thriving, collaborative, efficient, engaged and sustainable organization that we can all take pride in. Our People and Production Supervisor helps achieve our vision by leading a team to support the people, planet and performance strategies and measures of our manufacturing organization, and by always exhibiting our core values. In particular, the People and Production Supervisor establishes a Safety Always culture for the team, drives engagement, minimizes waste (e.g. high yield, low disposals), ensures the highest product quality, and delivers performance objectives to support Amy’s financial freedom. Our People and Production Supervisor should demonstrate the capability to lead people, including communicating effectively with the team members, providing feedback, holding others accountable, helping effect change, setting a positive tone and fostering an environment of success.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Safety Always:
- Proactively and consistently leads a Safety Always culture where safety is built into the way employees think and act.
- Ensure compliance with People and Food Safety processes, GMPs and SOPs, performs safety risk assessments and reports non-compliance.
- Ensure that employee restrictions are adhered to and appropriately approved accommodations are followed.
- Ensure team and work area are audit ready at all times.
People Leadership:
- Drive engagement through effective daily leadership (including solicitation of feedback and empowerment of employees) and Gallup follow-through sessions.
- Responsible for staffing, performance evaluations, delivering feedback, preparing and maintaining proper documentation, onboarding and retention activities.
- Ensure team members have the proper training and tools to perform their jobs.
- Identify and communicate development opportunities for employees.
- Collaborate with the Manufacturing Administrator to ensure that all timekeeping, attendance, PTO and payroll records are accurate, approved and submitted on time.
- Effectively utilizes the capabilities of Line Performance Operators to ensure performance of the line.
Quality & Sensory:
- Manufacture product according to quality and sensory standards and reports irregularities.
- Attend product tasting for the shifts as the BU Manager deputy.
Productivity and Performance:
- Lead team in achieving production objectives by daily communication of performance expectations and sharing information that impacts the team in achieving their goals.
- Monitor and maintains productivity levels by delivering and reviewing performance reports and KPIs (Safety, People, Quality, Delivery and Cost).
- Support on-time start-up of the lines (interfacing with support departments) and shift handoffs.
- Responsible for determining needs for schedule change, pending rework, appropriate response to line interruptions (including resolution of equipment downtime), and work orders for the area.
- Lead and participate in Root Cause Analyses as appropriate or requested.
- Responsible for MOS Tier1 process for their area verifying that data is accurate, and boards are updated hourly.
- With Manufacturing Administrator ensures daily collection and review of batch sheets and disposal forms for completeness and accuracy.
- Responsible for preparing required documentation, including submission of MCRs for process changes and SOP updates.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Safety Always:
- Proactively and consistently leads a Safety Always culture where safety is built into the way employees think and act.
- Ensure compliance with People and Food Safety processes, GMPs and SOPs, performs safety risk assessments and reports non-compliance.
- Ensure that employee restrictions are adhered to and appropriately approved accommodations are followed.
- Ensure team and work area are audit ready at all times.
People Leadership:
- Drive engagement through effective daily leadership (including solicitation of feedback and empowerment of employees) and Gallup follow-through sessions.
- Responsible for staffing, performance evaluations, delivering feedback, preparing and maintaining proper documentation, onboarding and retention activities.
- Ensure team members have the proper training and tools to perform their jobs.
- Identify and communicate development opportunities for employees.
- Collaborate with the Manufacturing Administrator to ensure that all timekeeping, attendance, PTO and payroll records are accurate, approved and submitted on time.
- Effectively utilizes the capabilities of Line Performance Operators to ensure performance of the line.
Quality & Sensory:
- Manufacture product according to quality and sensory standards and reports irregularities.
- Attend product tasting for the shifts as the BU Manager deputy.
Productivity and Performance:
- Lead team in achieving production objectives by daily communication of performance expectations and sharing information that impacts the team in achieving their goals.
- Monitor and maintains productivity levels by delivering and reviewing performance reports and KPIs (Safety, People, Quality, Delivery and Cost).
- Support on-time start-up of the lines (interfacing with support departments) and shift handoffs.
- Responsible for determining needs for schedule change, pending rework, appropriate response to line interruptions (including resolution of equipment downtime), and work orders for the area.
- Lead and participate in Root Cause Analyses as appropriate or requested.
- Responsible for MOS Tier1 process for their area verifying that data is accurate, and boards are updated hourly.
- With Manufacturing Administrator ensures daily collection and review of batch sheets and disposal forms for completeness and accuracy.
- Responsible for preparing required documentation, including submission of MCRs for process changes and SOP updates.
Job Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year college or university; or four years of food and/or manufacturing related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee may be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Ability to stand and/or walk for several hours a day
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee may be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Ability to stand and/or walk for several hours a day
Skills/Experience Preferred
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
- Active listening skills
- Builds and maintains relationships easily
- Is approachable, empathic, and compassionate; boosts self-esteem and maintains respect
- Works easily with diverse styles and people from different backgrounds
- Can respectfully and clearly give and receive feedback
- Able to confront issues and conflict in a respectful, constructive and productive manner.
- Able to maintain composure in high pressure situations with all levels of staff.
- Able to train others to perform to standards.
- Cooperates easily with peers and others. Can collaborate across organizational boundaries.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- Motivates others with positive, encouraging messages and spirit.
- Provides vision and direction to help others achieve goals.
- Effectively coaches others to reach their potential.
- Works proactively to correct performance issues and address problems.
- Initiates process improvement and problem solving. Able to lead a team to solve problems.
- Can think strategically; yet, operate effectively at the ‘ground level.’
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Familiar with Windows Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Will be required to write procedures and work with spreadsheets
- Ability to create charts to summarize and present results
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Ability to read, write and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write thorough shift reports.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees.
- Bilingual Spanish/English preferred.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate and percentages
- Have a good understanding of production standards and efficiencies
REASONING ABILITY
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to diagnose and assess current operations in order to continuously improve processes and conditions.
- Active listening skills
- Builds and maintains relationships easily
- Is approachable, empathic, and compassionate; boosts self-esteem and maintains respect
- Works easily with diverse styles and people from different backgrounds
- Can respectfully and clearly give and receive feedback
- Able to confront issues and conflict in a respectful, constructive and productive manner.
- Able to maintain composure in high pressure situations with all levels of staff.
- Able to train others to perform to standards.
- Cooperates easily with peers and others. Can collaborate across organizational boundaries.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- Motivates others with positive, encouraging messages and spirit.
- Provides vision and direction to help others achieve goals.
- Effectively coaches others to reach their potential.
- Works proactively to correct performance issues and address problems.
- Initiates process improvement and problem solving. Able to lead a team to solve problems.
- Can think strategically; yet, operate effectively at the ‘ground level.’
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Familiar with Windows Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Will be required to write procedures and work with spreadsheets
- Ability to create charts to summarize and present results
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Ability to read, write and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write thorough shift reports.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees.
- Bilingual Spanish/English preferred.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate and percentages
- Have a good understanding of production standards and efficiencies
REASONING ABILITY
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to diagnose and assess current operations in order to continuously improve processes and conditions.
Benefits
When you work at Amy’s you become part of the Amy’s family and we believe in taking care of each other. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage and a matching retirement savings plan. Our Free Family Health Center offers bilingual services for our employees and their families.
Hours
Full-time
Location
San Jose, CA
Other Application Requirements
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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