Plant Production Shift Supervisor

Job description

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients, a pioneer of plant proteins and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

What makes us proud?

Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.

Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients, a pioneer of plant proteins and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

What makes us proud?

Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.

Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

The Plant Production Supervisor's focus is on the day to day leadership and operation, supervising and leading skilled, multi-skilled and highly skilled bargaining unit employees, ensuring safe operations, environmental compliance and quality production in RAI's Good Manufacturing Practice food-grade operations.

Description: The Plant Production Supervisor position requires candidates to demonstrate excellent operational leadership, clear communication skills, strong people development and coaching abilities, and experience in nimbly managing short term activities and longer-term projects.

  Main Responsibilities

·  Actively participates in the plant safety programs, reviewing and enforcing compliance with all safety and health regulations, providing safety training, completing action items necessary for safety and health compliance, and investigating any safety problem or accident within department.
·  Provides leadership and facilitates problem resolution, resource utilization and timesheet approvals, facilitates the training and qualification process and participates in the performance review process for all operational reports.
·  Contributes to and supports the operation of plant equipment to maximize productivity and meet production schedule/output targets; providing operational and technical support to the operators.
·  Monitors established performance indicators, including variance reports, production reports, quality reports,  injury reports, equipment utilization reports, and overtime performance.
·  Performs project work contributing to less complex assignments and performing smaller pieces of larger project initiatives to improve the reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement of plant operations.
·  Networks with engineers and production leads locally and regionally to maintain, build and share knowledge of technical innovations and to leverage knowledge on plant operations.
·  Contribute to engineering project implementation on familiar topics with awareness of project costs, progress and quality.
·  Execute quality audit requirements.
·  Support the quality and analytical teams in all areas of quality control and analysis including process improvements, sampling and manufacturing techniques and raw material approval.
·  Maintain positive customer relations to ensure continued satisfaction; work closely with the customer on quality and/or supply issues as needed, either individually or in team settings, attend meetings and participate in improvement teams.

Qualifications

·  BS degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry or Manufacturing Engineering prefer or equivalent experience
·  3 years or more of relatable food or continuous processing industrial facility experience
·  3 years or more of leadership and/or supervisory experience

1 year preferred of relatable food or continuous processing industrial facility experience

If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let's start the journey together !

Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences. 

Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together.

As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach, by creating a workforce that represents the world we live in, and the communities and customers we serve.

To find out more about our products, values and sustainable development ambitions visit us at www.roquette.com and at www.sustainability.roquette.com