Packaging Supervisor - Nights

job summary:

The Packaging Supervisor is a frontline leader responsible for safe, efficient, and high-quality packaging operations during an assigned shift. This role provides hands-on leadership to packaging teams, sets clear shift priorities, and ensures compliance with production, safety, food safety, and quality standards. The Packaging Supervisor fosters a positive, accountable team environment while driving performance across people, processes, and equipment.

responsibilities:

• Own shift-level performancefor packaging operations, including safety, quality, service, and cost, across blow molding, filling, sleeving, case packing, palletizing, and all auxiliary and cleaning equipment.

• Directly supervise, coach, and develop packaging operators, ensuring employees are trained, certified, and capable of safely operating equipment to standard while meeting daily production requirements.

• Hold employees accountable to company policies, procedures, processes and conduct throughtimelycoaching, documentation, and collaboration with management on progressive discipline.

• Ensureaccuratetime and attendance administration,validatingattendance points,and addressing discrepancies promptly.

• Lead all aspects of shift execution, including production runs, sanitation activities, changeovers, and planned shutdowns, ensuring adherence to schedules, standards, and priorities.

• Facilitate effective shift handover and daily direction-setting meetings, clearly communicating priorities, risks, performance gaps, and expectations to ensure continuity and accountability across shifts.

• Champion a strong safety culture byimmediatelyaddressing unsafe conditions or behaviors, escalating hazards and incidents appropriately, adjusting production plans to mitigate risk, and serving as first responder when trained.

• Communicate proactively with cross-functional partners (Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse, Sanitation, Planning)regardingoperating condition changes, production issues,preventative maintenance/workorderandquality risks.

• Maintain continuous GMP and safety audit readiness by ensuring cleanliness and compliance of floors, drains, conveyors, and equipment.

• Execute and audit sanitation and equipment standards including Master Sanitation Schedule, Centerline, and Clean-Inspect-Lubricate (CIL) tasks.

• Verify proper execution of CIP processes to ensure equipment is production-ready within required timelines.

• Initiate and manage product holds per Quality standards and coordinate with Quality and Warehouse teams for proper segregation and traceability.

• Lead held-product rework activities in alignment with Quality guidance and documentation requirements.

• Lead root cause analysis for shift losses, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and sustained.

• Manage consumable inventory daily to support planned production requirements.

• Contribute to the creation, revision, and deployment of SOPs and One Point Lessons (OPLs), ensuring changes are trained and embedded into standard work.

skills/qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field orprior supervisory or people-leadership experience with direct oversight of hourly production employees in a high-volume environment

• Minimum of one (1) year of manufacturing experience in a food and/or beverage environment

• Proven ability to lead, coach, train, and fairly and consistently hold employees accountable for safety, quality, attendance, and performance expectations

• Experience leading shift-based manufacturing teams, including setting priorities, managing labor, and responding to real-time production challenges

• Dairy manufacturing experience, including ESL and/or aseptic processing, preferred

• Strong working knowledge of automated packaging operations and equipment, including blow molding, filling, labeling/sleeving, case packing, palletizing, and ancillary systems

• Strong commitment to workplace safety, with the ability toidentifyhazards, respond to incidents, and promote a culture of safety and accountability

• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, and quality standards, with experiencemaintainingaudit readiness

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners such as Quality, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams

• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing priorities and high accountability

working conditions and physical requirements:

• 12hours sitting/standing/walking around the production floor

• Ability tolift upto 40lbsof materials

• Reaching/bending requirements including climbing ladders or elevated areas

• Hand dexterity for operating machinery or computer systems

• Exposure to hazards (machinery noise, confined spaces, chemical handling, etc.)

• Wearing PPE such as safety glasses, hearing protection, and slip-resistant boots

• Specific atmospheric conditions and environmental factors

• Any other physical requirements including desk work, meetings, and data entry

food safety requirements:

• Notifyleadershipof any repairs or adjustments that may affect product quality or food safety.

• Understand,observe, andcomply withthe handling and usage of the color-coded container policy while in the Production Areas.

• Perform all duties necessary to meet Company, Customer and/or Government requirements/standards as prioritized by the Company.

• Ability toinitiateaction to prevent the occurrence of nonconformities relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the product, processes, quality system, or safety system.

• Identifyand record any problems relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the ingredients, processes, quality system, or safety system.

• Control further processing or delivery of nonconforming product in terms of Food Safety and Quality issues until the deficiency or unsatisfactory condition has been corrected.

• In the event ofabsence, another employee with the same skill level will assume the duties and responsibilities asrequired.

Position location:Coopersville,MI

Reports to:Packaging Manager

Travel requirements:<10%

exempt/nonexempt:exempt