Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 200 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century-long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, life insurance covered by the company
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Paid vacation & holidays

Senior Production Supervisor

POSITION SUMMARY

Directs and coordinates activities of production function in processing materials or manufacturing products in Production area by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work closely with Management Team to enhance operational excellence in Production.
• Directly supervise daily operations of multi-shifts in individual plant (A/B/C) to ensure high efficiency in production with enough manpower to support the operations in all plants. May need to work in different shifts based on production schedule.
• Arrange the Processing Team, Filling Team, CIP Team, and Sanitation Team properly to fulfill the production schedule and sanitation requirement; ensure highest efficiency operations in each shift.
• Ensure shift operations align with company quality / safety standard and all related procedures / instructions / preset parameters are followed, such as GMP, HACCP and OSHA safety regulation.
• Provide GMP & cross-trainings to the operators, insure proper employees’ time & attendance process/records, review the daily production reports, and generate and interpret production reports.
• Create Pull-lists for raw and packaging materials and to maintain inventory accuracy.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Warehouse, and QC functions during daily operation to make good use of all resources to maintain highest production quality with highest efficiency in operations.
• Drive change and implement continuous improvement initiatives to meet KPI’s and specific goals.
• Apply Lean/Six Sigma principals and participate/support continuous improvement initiatives to ensure operation excellence.
• Align the arrangement of each shift to achieve the best operation result daily;
• may act as the backup of the department manager when he/she is absent.

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  Other duties may be assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Problem Solving
• Action Oriented
• Planning & Organizing
• Customer Focus
• Self-Development

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervises daily production operations, shift supervisors, Team Leads, and other staff as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each major responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major responsibilities.

A. EDUCATION, SKILLS and EXPERIENCE

• Associate's degree (A.A. or A.S.) from two-year college or technical school in Engineering or related discipline is required, or equivalent combination of education and experience; Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or B.A.) is highly preferred.
• A minimum of 7 years of related work experience in a supervisory role in a food manufacturing industry is required.
• Experienced in lean/six-sigma and able to partner with the leadership team to drive change and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Must be self-motivated & result oriented; eager to take challenges and accomplish goals on time.
• Good interpersonal and supervisory skills to build effective teams to drive results.
• Good verbal and written communication skills including but not limited writing routine/ad hoc reports and correspondence, read & interpret documents such as safety rules, operation & maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply time management skills and common sense to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Be able to speak or present materials in public or group meetings in front of different level of audience.
• Must be able to resolve with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations by utilizing analytical, logical, critical thinking and root cause analysis skills.
• Ability to read and comprehend equipment manuals and electrical diagrams for set-up control loops.
• Computer literate and familiar with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

B. LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Bilingual in English/Chinese or English/Spanish is highly preferred.

C. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ideal candidate must compute rates, ratios, and percentages and draw and interpret bar graphs.

D. PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands or fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision ability is required, including close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust and stay focus.

E. WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shocks; explosives; risk of radiation; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 300 employees. We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.