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The production supervisor is the person responsible for the efficient, safe and quality-oriented processing of citrus juices, blends and oils on their respective shift. The supervisor must ensure that employees are trained and adhere to quality, safety and food safety practices as well as standard operating procedures at all times. The supervisor must report any non-standard condition to their immediate supervisor for resolution along with recommendations for corrective action. The supervisor will normally have twelve to thirty employees reporting directly to them. Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production of citrus juices, oils and blends.Train employees in the safe, quality oriented discharge of their respective production duties.Schedule each employee’s work on a daily and weekly basis to ensure that production and product delivery schedules are met. Follow up to ensure satisfactory completion.Report immediately any non-standard personnel or production issues to the vice-president, operations along with recommended solutions.Confer as necessary with maintenance or laboratory technicians to resolve maintenance or quality issues.Promote safety in the department and ensure that production personnel adhere to all safety regulations including the wearing of all essential personal protective equipment.Ensure that all production personnel are following food safety and personal hygiene practices.Order production related parts as necessary through e-requester for electronic approval.Provide written and oral positive and constructive feedback to employees on a regular basis in an effort to improve individual employee performance.Resolve production employee relations issues to maintain positive employee morale.Act professionally towards customers, vendors, and other visitors to the plant.Demonstrate reliable attendance, consistent punctuality and a positive attitude at all times.Perform other duties as assigned and required.

Oversaw two site operations, coordinated shipping, and production. Organized raw ingredients to meet production demands. Strengthened plant HACCP, SAFTEY, GMP's as well as Policies and Procedures, SOP's and work instructions. Coordinated Scheduling production, safety, quality and maintained PM'S. Instructed, and set goals for employees. Improved productions, maintenance, sanitation, and quality control on the shift. Administered, balanced, hours for both temp and hourly employees. Reviewed, mastered sanitation list. Coached, trained and prioritized sanitation and security personnel. At the same time utilizing 6S' and lean principle. Resulted in a increase of production by 37% and became SQF 3 qualified.

Crosswinds Industries, Hiawatha, KS June 2012 - June 2013Shift Manager Coordinated shipping, and production. Organized raw ingredients to meet production demands. Strengthened plant HACCP, SAFTEY, GMP's as well as Policies and Procedures, SOP's and work instructions. Coordinated Scheduling production, safety, quality and maintained PM'S. Instructed, and set goals for employees. Improved productions, maintenance, sanitation, and quality control on the shift. Administered, balanced, hours for both temp and hourly employees. At the same time utilizing 6S' and lean principle. Resulted in the reduction of labor cost by 20%, waste by 15% and increased moral.

Protein Inc./Express Pet Food St. Joseph, MO Jan 2005 to May 2012Production/Plant Manager Coordinated shipping and production, organized raw ingredients to meet production demands, strengthened, plant HACCP, SAFTEY, GMP's as well as Policies and Procedures SOP's and work instructions. Coordinated Scheduling production, safety, and quality and maintain PM'S. Instructed, and set goals for employees. Improved productions, maintenance, sanitation, and quality control on the shift. Administered analyzed balanced forecasted hours for both temp and hourly employees. Reviewed mastered sanitation list coached, clarify, Instruct, train and prioritized sanitation and security personnel. Developed, established drafted edit directed and wrote all Policies and Procedures as well as the work instructions. Resulted in an increase plant operation from one shift of 35 employees to 3 shifts of 50 increase production from 250K to 1.6 million a week. Increased Sales from 3.5 million to 25 million.

• Adset/Pricing Supervisoro Direct Adset personnelo Maintain high level of sign efficiencyo Maintain customer Satisfactiono Store closing

• Rims Coordinatoro Direct production to meet saleso Match production runs to shipping orders.o Fill shipping orders from customerso Maintain low inventory and high customer satisfaction.• Working Supervisoro Directed employeeso Meet daily production scheduleso Meet and Maintain Quality Standardso Maintain machinery• Package lineo Operated and maintained o 9 different machineso Hold records on 7 of them.o Mixed ingredients for productiono Canning Process from receiving to shipping the product and everything in between• Team Member/Leadero Increased efficiencyo Reduced down Timeo Updated equipmento Increased the plant rate in the divisiono o o Operated Processers, PRC Seamers, o Hydroflex, Depalletizer, Palletizer, o Krones Labeler, Casers Alveys and Seam Checker.

Logistics SpecialistApril, 1976,United States Marine Corp, Camp Lejeune, NC. Planned, Directed, Inventory Control. Trained, Coached, Logistical Distribution, Scheduling, resourcing function. Resulted in maintaining Combat ready. Decreased inventory loss. Increased supplies to the troops in the field.