Assistant Supervisor (Third Shift)

Job Responsibilities:

• Optimize the people, process and tools to ensure output in your area meets or exceeds demand.
• Identify and correct issues which reduce output and provide recommendations to your supervisor for continuous improvements.
• Predict future obstacles and make corrections to ensure that output targets are always met.
• Develop and motivate the individuals on your team to ensure that individual goals are met and aligned with the goals of the group.
• Prepare and provide performance evaluations, counseling records, and communications/safety meetings to your direct reports.
• Manage work schedule, overtime, vacation and PTO hours of direct reports.
• Work with other members of the leadership team to meet or exceed plant goals and key performance indicators.
• Provide rapid responses and solutions to escalated issues and urgent customer demands.

Required Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good change management and time management skills
• Customer focused with effective problem solving ability
• Ability to deliver presentations in a small group setting
• Read, Collect, and Analyze analytical data from the process-based areas to help make process flow decisions. Utilize analytical lab equipment such as particle size analyzer, pH meter, densitometer, etc.
• Upon completion of batches, ensures timely backflushing of materials to maintain inventory accuracy.
• Operates electric and/or gas sit down and electric reach trucks as required.
• Individual must have good working knowledge of GMP's, HACCP, SAP, Excel, inventory control and maintain highest levels of sanitation in and around their work area.
• Push/pull 400 pound drums and lift 100 pound bags as required.
• Compare information on ZFIS to ensure proper packaging and amount of material against customer orders.

Required Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 2-5 years of experience in a Food or Chemical manufacturing plant (liquid compounding experience)
• Familiar with OSHA requirements.
• Experience in continuous improvement projects.
• Working knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office programs.

Preferred Experience:

• SAP experience preferred.
• Experience in a process manufacturing environment.
• Worked and Handling of Food Type products.
• Mechanical knowledge.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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