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This role is responsible for ensuring safety, quality, sanitation, budgeting, and productivity while driving continuous improvement through data analysis and process coordination. If you’re a hands-on leader who thrives in dynamic settings and enjoys making a direct impact, this is a great opportunity to grow with a company committed to excellence.\nResponsibilities:\nBasic Responsibilities:\n· Managing the further processing production operations of the plant.\n· Coordinating the production, maintenance, sanitation, quality, shipping and receiving areas.\n· Monitoring performance of each department to meet production efficiency, yield and quality goals.\n· Setting objectives and reviewing shift's performance versus objectives.\n· Encouraging subordinates to find ways to reduce cost.\n· Ensuring sanitation meets USDA standards.\n· Coordinating production and sanitation maintenance to meet daily needs.\n· Analyzing equipment on a daily basis and reviewing with maintenance superintendent.\n· Providing a clear sense of direction for supervisors to work toward and encourage teamwork to achieve goals.\n· Establishing challenging goals and standards for each supervisor and encourage them to give their best effort.\n· Ensuring effective utilization of human resources by training subordinates, motivating consistent performances, appraising performance, recommending salary action and developing for potential promotion.\n· Monitoring operations to meet company policies, quality specifications, USDA and OSHA standards.\n· Conducting plant inspections to eliminate hazardous conditions.\n· Managing all aspects of operations to assure a safe working environment.\n· Taking immediate action to eliminate improper practices or hazardous conditions.\nWhat You’ll Need: (pick applicable)\n5+ years experience in the poultry/food industry required with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.\nMust have good leadership skills.\nMust have the ability to interact with operational and processing management.\nMust demonstrate critical thinking skills.\nMust have excellent written and verbal communication skills.\nMust have the ability to organize and prioritize work.\nWorking knowledge of Microsoft Office preferred (Word, Excel, etc)\nSAP experience preferred.\nAbility to effectively communicate with internal and external partners\nAble to work evenings and weekends as required\nWhy Work for Pilgrim’s?\nSchedule: Monday - Friday with occasional weekends. \nBenefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment;\nPaid Time Off: Sick leave, vacation, company observed holidays or, any other statutorily required paid leave;\n 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule; \nBase salary range of $102,696 to $124,776;\nCareer Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs;\nBetter Futures\nThe Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.\nAbout us: Pilgrim’s is a leading global food company with more than 62,000 team members worldwide. The company processes, prepares, packages, and delivers fresh, frozen, and value-added food products for customers in more than 100 countries. Pilgrim’s operates protein processing plants and prepared foods facilities in 14 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the U.K, the Republic of Ireland and continental Europe.\nOur vision: Become the best and most respected company in our industry creating the opportunity of a better future for our team members.\nOur core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity\nEOE, including disability/vets\nUnsolicited Assistance: Pilgrim's does not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at Pilgrim's or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by Pilgrim's. 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