Production Supervisor (3 needed)

Why Somafina?

Somafina is an industry leader in contract manufacturing of dietary supplements. Our commitment to our customers and our aggressive growth strategy provide opportunities to manage uniquely complex projects with a team of dedicated and expert collaborators. We pride ourselves on our superior commitment to maintaining the highest quality standards while fostering a company culture that is collaborative and supportive.

Position Overview:

The Production Supervisor plays a critical role in overseeing and directing the daily operations of the production department. This position is responsible for managing department supervisors, ensuring that production goals are met efficiently while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance with established procedures.

Essential responsibilities:

• Directs the efforts of the department supervisors as they manage day-to-day production

activities.

• Gets daily, weekly, and monthly goals; measures progress and reviews with management

regularly.

• Recommends equipment purchases to improve operations, i.e. reduce costs, improve quality, and

reduce lead-times, etc.

• Collaborates on the hiring, training and termination of employees.
• Develops and maintains cost and capacity models.
• Oversees the production scheduling process.
• Assesses the effectiveness of the group’s information and planning systems and the quality

assurance systems.

• Assures that the operation is compliant with the SOP’s and proposed GMP’s.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Support of and involvement in company, department, and/or safety policies, procedures, programs

and activities.

• Maintain a clean and orderly work area.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education Requirements:

• High school diploma. Associate or bachelor’s degree will be a plus, 3 years’ minimum experience

working in the industry related activities.

Competencies/skill Qualifications:

• Must have knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing,

spreadsheets, and database software.

• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as adding, subtracting, dividing,

multiplying, come up with percentages and yield calculations.

• Ability to respond to common inquires of complaints from customers, regulatory

agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to top

management, and/or boards of directions.

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability

to interpret technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract

and concrete variables.

• Employee must obtain and maintain a current food handler’s permit.
• English proficiency required.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk;

sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hand and arms; and converse and listen.

• The employee must exert up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force

frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force to move objects.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include near acuity; far acuity, depth

perception, accommodation, color vision, and felid of vision.