Perdue Foods is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned company heading into its second century of growth and innovation. With a goal of becoming the most trusted name in premium proteins, we create products for consumers and for retail and foodservice customers around the globe, while changing the way animals are raised for food. **Summary** The primary responsibility of the Trim Blend Production Supervisor is to provide leadership and direction in the production and maintenance operations of the Trim Blend department to ensure timely and cost-efficient production and distribution of Company products. This position oversees the day-to-day supervision of the staff to achieve required production and quality standards in a safe manner, and for promoting and maintaining positive working relationships with the production group. **Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities** + Ensures products are run in the proper order, products are completed on time, products are rotated properly, all detection equipment is operating as it should, all packaging materials are tracked and ordered when needed. + Meets all facility operational plans, lean percentages, protein blends, flavor blends, throughput, maximum line efficiency, and quality requirements are met. + Ensures processes are in place to continuously reduce turnover, improve safety results as measured by the Safety Scorecard, and create the environment that will make the facility the Employer of Choice in the area. + Ensures processes are in place to run production in order when working with various proteins and/or spices to ensure no cross contamination occurs and proper cleaning / segregation practices. + Consistently develops new ideas and methods to improve operational performance and improve product quality and customer reliability. + Supports and promotes the company’s annual People, Products, and Profitability goals through effective planning, communication, emphasizing the requirement for all team members to be efficient and effective in their respective responsibilities. + Responsible for monitoring / signing off on associate’s time cards, monitoring breaks to ensure associates are back on the floor within the allotted windows, and disciplinary actions when needed. **Minimum Education** + Associates degree in Business Administration/Management, Agriculture or related discipline. + 5+ years of related supervisory experience will be considered in lieu of degree. **Experience Requirements** + 1 to 3 years previous supervisory experience demonstrating ability to lead people and get results. + Strong customer service and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate with all levels of the organization. + Ability to think ahead and plan over a 1 to 3 year time span. + Must be able to organize multiple protocols/projects and complete on schedule. + Ability to develop protocols, processes and deploy. + Ability to analyze and resolve problems at a strategic and functional level. + Must be able and willing to travel to other facilities and plants for meetings and/or company business. **Experience Preferred** + Bilingual (English/Spanish) communication skills preferred (not required). **Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements** + May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another. + May need to access files, supplies and equipment. When in a plant environment: + Exposure primarily consists of wet and moist floors which include metal and plastic grating surfaces. + May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity. + May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. + May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db to 110 db. + May be exposed to all chemicals used in pork, food, processing facility. + Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company. + Must be able to climb stairs and ladders. + Bending, twisting, lifting, reaching, sitting and grasping varies in repetitions, distances, degrees, angle weights, height, intervals of time, object grasped and body positions depending upon the task being performed. _Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status._