1st Shift Production Processing Supervisor

The Opportunity

The Production Processing Supervisor in our food powder manufacturing facility is responsible for leading, hiring, training, and developing production employees, to ensure employee safety and optimal performance, while creating a culture of ownership. This role requires strong business and technical leadership in safety, continuous improvement techniques, quality, performance, cost management, and people leadership. The Production Supervisor will collaborate cross-functionally to meet production demands and develop and coordinate activities, processes, and standards to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people objectives.

• Lead, hire, train, and develop production employees to ensure safety, engagement, and optimal performance.
• Coach and mentor employees to build future leaders, foster accountability, and resolve concerns.
• Advocate for and maintain compliance with safety, quality, and professional standards throughout the facility.
• Optimize resources and manage plant operations for efficient, effective, and safe production.
• Utilize continuous improvement techniques to enhance production processes, team performance, and eliminate losses.
• Oversee daily management systems (e.g., shift hand-offs, structured meetings) to drive productivity and ownership of performance metrics.
• Manage cost objectives, ensuring adherence to budgets and cost-effective operations.
• Collaborate with other departments to meet production demands and achieve organizational goals.
• Maintain high completion rates for quality initiatives (e.g., CAPA, NSF Preparedness, HAACP Awareness, GMPs).
• Develop, coordinate, and implement activities, processes, and standards to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people objectives.
• Monitor and correct employee actions to ensure adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support overall plant and organizational success.

The Skills you will bring to the team

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations management, business, or related field (or equivalent practical experience with a high school diploma or GED) Previous experience gained in a similar position
• 3+ years production supervisory experience required Competence in the areas of
• Experience managing Continuous Improvement through manufacturing metrics (MES/5S/OEE/LEAN MANUFACTURING)
• Knowledge and Experience with Food Production Equipment.
• Experience in food and/or consumer products environment.
• Advanced knowledge of GMP/HACCP
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively facilitate continuous improvement and lead teams
• Ability to manage and develop team members to create ownership mentality
• Occasional flexibility to support other shifts with advanced notice

Where and how you will work

The opportunity will be based onsite in Aurora, Illinois. 1st shift is Monday-Friday 6am-2pm

What we would like to offer you!

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.  Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. Annual salary for Illinois - based employees for this role is $70,000- $95,000.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide. 

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.