About Shaw Bakers

At Shaw Bakers, we love mixing renowned French techniques with state-of-the-art process innovation to bring delicious baked goods to our local community through our legendary local Cafes, as well as national retail partners across North America. We are an aggressive, fast-growing company with a full pipeline of exciting new projects, products, and employment opportunities.

Production Supervisor

The Production Supervisor role contributes to Shaw Baker’s success by providing ongoing support in scheduling resources, technical leadership, and facilitating production flow to meet customer requirements. The Production Supervisor establishes priorities, monitors progress, revises schedule, solves day to day issues, and provides coaching, counseling, and training to employees. The Production Supervisor also enforces systems, policies, and procedures and completes various production reports.

This role ensures the production workflow with high safety and quality standards, working with their team to avoid waste and maintain cost control, while operating in accordance with the company’s values and guiding principles.

This role is onsite in our South San Francisco facility. We are currently interviewing for second shift and overnight shift.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

• Maintains a safe environment for the employees and ensures strict adherence to company Health and Safety standards, including PPE Policy.
• Support safety drills following the responsibilities of the position.
• Provides leadership and direction to the team, leading by example.
• Participates in the selection process for new employees, including hiring, training, performance evaluations, corrective action, and work schedules.
• Works with other supervisors and cross-functional department leads to assess employee developmental needs.
• Effectively solves employee issues using a facilitative approach by conducting proper research, investigation, analysis, and evaluation to solve problems.
• Works with Production Managers to implement changes on the operations team.
• Oversees hourly employees’ payroll and ensures that time and attendance for assigned employees are accurate in Paylocity.
• Establishes daily, weekly, and monthly objectives with the production manager and additional Production Supervisors, effectively communicating them to employees, driving results,
• Manages availability of equipment, human and material resources required to meet production targets and efficiencies.
• Maintains the Quality of the product by implementing and enforcing quality control and tracking programs (SPC) to meet quality objectives.
• Effectively works cross-functionally across all departments.
• Ensures equipment operation by calling for repairs and following up on equipment status until back to operation through the work order process.
• Contributes to projects of cost reductions, developing and reporting results.
• Provides information by gathering production performance records and data to prepare reports on performance and progress, presenting to leadership when needed.
• Reviews and maintains daily reporting (batch/production/packaging reports).
• Informs leadership of all requirements tools, supplies, or any resources to accomplish production objectives.
• Understands and can communicate about blueprints, diagrams, schedules, and miscellaneous documents.
• Trains new employees on the use of our machinery safely.
• Leads 5S activities.
• Supports continuous improvement process.
• Supports requests from other departments (NPD, Maintenance.)
• Maintains and covers schedules as needed.
• Additional availability outside of assigned working hours during rare and critical circumstances.
• Committed to following and adhering to GMP and Food Safety practices to comply with SQF and regulatory requirements.

Required Experience

• 5 years of team leadership experience in a manufacturing and production environment
• Food manufacturing experience required
• Development of policies and programs in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with baking technology a plus
• Familiarity with American Institute of Baking (AIB), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) standards.

Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications are objective, non-comparative, and relevant requirements essential to performing a role anywhere in the company. Examples include minimum educational requirements or specific degrees, certifications, minimum years of experience in a similar role with similar scope or level of responsibility, experience with core technology tools or platforms such as Microsoft Office, equivalent military experience, etc.

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Basic Computer Skills (Microsoft Office Suite)
• Bi-lingual in Spanish & English required