About the Role
Join Ellsworth Creamery, a company committed to its Team, Craft & Community since 1910. This role provides leadership to employees, fostering an environment of trust and open communication while ensuring safety, quality, and performance objectives are met.
Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with HR, GMP, OSHA, FDA, DATCP, SQF, and USDA standards
- Foster a positive, team-oriented culture focused on safety, quality, and continuous improvement
- Develop team skills to support efficient, high-performing production
- Coordinate with Operations Manager to prevent shift-to-shift production gaps
- Lead, coach, and mentor employees to meet business and development goals
- Inspect products and equipment for quality and regulatory compliance
- Follow SSOPs to maintain sanitation and SQF standards
- Document inspections, violations, and corrective actions
- Communicate sanitation issues and recommend improvements
- Manage purchase orders for production supplies and materials
- Coordinate preventative maintenance and submit CMMS (eMaint) work orders
- Perform minor equipment maintenance and report major repair needs
- Track and manage chemical costs with suppliers
- Administer and document disciplinary actions as needed
- Promote a safe, secure, and positive workplace
Requirements
- Under the direction of the Manufacturing Operations Manager, the Sanitation & Production Supervisor is responsible for anticipating and meeting the Company’s evolving needs and objectives.
- This supervisory role provides firm, fair and consistent leadership to employees while fostering an environment of trust and open communication.
- The Sanitation & Production Supervisor assists with managing, directing and coordinating overall plant operations through managers, supervisors, leaders and employees.
- Assuring safety, quality and performance objectives are a foundational expectation for this role.
Skills
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Quality Assurance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Inventory Management
- Preventative Maintenance
- Cost Management
Location
- New London
Work Type
- Full Time
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Accident insurance
- Critical Illness insurance
- Hospital insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401k match
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday Pay
About the Company
- Ellsworth Creamery works with a cooperative of local farmers to create award-winning cheese.
- Committed to its Team, Craft & Community, Since 1910.
- Team members are valued like family, contributing to staff longevity with careers spanning 10, 20, and even 50 years.
- The New London facility focuses on producing easy melts, high-temperature restricted melt cheeses, and pasteurized processed pizza cheese for versatile culinary applications.
