MI - Production Supervisor II (Chickery)

Position Summary:

Building on the responsibilities of a Supervisor I, the Supervisor II role is a key leadership position in the production department. It involves greater responsibility for effective team management and operational excellence on the farm. This position primarily works on the farm around livestock.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of departmental goals and objectives in alignment with the overall company strategy.
• Provide insights and recommendations to upper management for continuous improvement.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and healthy work environment. 
• Follow up on safety reports in a timely manner.
• Organize workflow and ensure that employees understand their duties or delegated tasks.  This includes meeting deadlines. Hold regular team meetings. Understand farm cross-functionality and organize workflow to get things done.
• Monitor employee productivity and provide constructive feedback and coaching. Ensure employees meet performance expectations.
• Receive complaints and resolve problems.
• Maintain timekeeping and personnel records.
• Pass information between upper management and employees.
• Prepare and submit employee performance reviews. Help decide on rewards and promotions based on performance.
• Train new and existing employees.
• Ensure adherence to audit, legal, and company policies and procedures, and take disciplinary action when needed.
• Effective communication skills and interpersonal skills.  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.  Adaptable, flexible, a quick learner, and a problem solver, including across departments.
• Follow and enforce biosecurity practices on all company sites.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field, with 3 or more years of relevant experience.
• Able to work weekends as needed and maintain a flexible schedule, including regular on-call duties.
• Ability to stand and/or walk while sampling chicken houses.
• Ability to work in a dusty, dirty environment with hot/cold temperatures depending on the season. 
• Does not own or maintain regular contact with birds, swine, cattle, sheep, goats, or unprocessed eggs. 
• Leadership courses completed in LMS.
• Develops and applies cross-functional mechanical aptitude.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Ability to remain standing and/or walking for extended periods of time on concrete floors.
• Ability to stoop, bend, climb, and lift at least 25 pounds. Continuously throughout the day, with occasional lifting of 50 pounds.

Safety:

• Follow all company safety rules.
• Proper PPE.
• Lockout/tagout awareness/authorization.
• Report any safety concerns to the manager.

Benefits Highlights

• Competitive wages & PTO
• Free Wellness Clinic
• Premium Free Health care option
• 401(k) match