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Mom's Meals 2nd Shift Bilingual Production Supervisor in Ankeny, Iowa

Position SummaryThe Production Supervisor is responsible for effectively leading all aspects of a production team. This includes successfully executing daily operations, ensuring client needs are met efficiently and accurately, and removing delays and issues that inhibit production.

Candidate must be Bilingual (English/Spanish) Position Responsibilities may include, but not limited to

  • Embrace, promote, and model Mom's Meals Core Values: Teamwork, Relentlessly Dependable, Appreciation & Respect, Innovation & Constant Improving, and Delivering Excellence

  • Promote teamwork and champion employee engagement

  • Supervise and coach staff by regularly communicating goals, objectives, and results to the team

  • Ensure alignment of the team to company goals

  • Foster open and effective communication within the team and cross functionally

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-shift and cross-functional partners

  • Organize and monitor workflow to ensure shift goals are met

  • Challenge the status quo, driving productivity improvements and cost reductions through ongoing Continuous Improvement and Lean initiatives

  • Regular partnership with Quality and Warehouse teams to ensure order and inventory accuracy

  • Develop and implement work schedules that allow for effective and efficient operations that meet business goals and objectives

  • Partner with our Food Safety team to ensure we are meeting FDA, USDA, and General Manufacturing Practice requirements

  • Support all safety efforts to continuously ensure a clean and safe work environment

  • Conduct performance appraisals: provide measurable feedback to assigned personnel and suggestions for improved performance; formulate and implement employee corrective action as needed

  • Must be willing and able to work occasional weekends

Required Skills and Experience

  • High School diploma or equivalent

  • 2 years fulfillment or production leadership experience

  • Experience identifying & executing process improvement initiatives that can be quantified with measurable results

  • Accountable to metrics related to operations

  • Fluent in Spanish and English

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Bilingual (English/Spanish)

  • Lean manufacturing certification or experience leading in a company practicing LEAN Initiatives

Physical Requirements

  • Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms

  • Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen

  • Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch

  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

  • Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

  • Able to perform repetitive movements

  • Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)

Company Overview

Mom's Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully prepared, refrigerated meal solutions direct to homes nationwide for over 25 years. We provide seniors, patients recovering post-discharge and those managing a chronic condition with tailored nutrition solutions to manage their specific needs. If you are passionate about the well-being of others and have a strong sense of community, Mom's Meals could be the place for you! We are a family operated business looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.

EEO

Mom's Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants shall receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or military status.

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