Responsibilities:

• Supervises and ensures that all activities are completed according to the production plan.

• Coordinates activities by scheduling work assignments, setting priorities and directing the work of subordinate employees.

• Creates an innovative environment for delivering the right KPIs, related with quality, productivity and efficiency, and proposes improvement projects related with the matter.

• Solves situations, which arise in individual production or operation sections.

• Evaluates and verifies employees’ performance through the review of completed work assignments and work techniques.

• Maintains records, prepares reports and composes correspondences related to his/her activity.

• Supervises and is responsible for production quality, co-operates with Quality & Environment Department and participates in supervising the quality level.

• Ensures compliance with quality specifications, HACCP and internal food safety & personnel safety procedures in the production department by communicating the working instructions and procedures to all interested parties and by training the production employees.

• Assures that shift members follow personnel guidelines, know their job requirements and are thoroughly trained.

• Insures that the shift has the right number of personnel according to standards and proposes immediately replacements in case of vacancies.

• Participates and is proactively involved in activities related with developing new products on the line, installing new equipment and insures that a proper feed back is sent to the correspondent department that leads the activity.

• Daily close communication with the other Supervisors for evaluation and review of all systems implemented in the production (Quality/Food Safety/Maintenance/Health and Safety).

• Actively participate in daily shift meetings and contribute/commit on the deadlines agreed with Planning and Reporting Department.

• Fill in SAP back flash data reports.

• Support for R&D department for implementing new product NPD or developing the existing ones.

• Develop action plans for KPI’s under target;

• Develop data basis for monitoring the pellets KPIs.

• Initiate and drive productivity projects.

Qualifications:

• University degree, preferably in Food Chemistry Engineering;

• Minimum 1 year experience in a production environment in areas such as: process technology, production planning or coordination;

• Experience in managing people;

Abilities:

• Ability to work in team is mandatory;

• Ability to rotate shifts;

• Resistance to high pressure; good management of change;

• Good command of English language;

• PC skills (Word, Excel, SAP);

• Skill in facilitating training sessions/meetings (instruction, facilitation and coaching skills);

• Skill in training and developing others;

• Skill in evaluating training, tools, on-line information;

• Understanding of the importance of the KPI scorecard;