Shift Supervisor

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

As Shift Supervisor Production, you lead and coordinate all production activities during your shift to ensure safe, efficient and high-quality operations. You provide daily leadership to operators and packing employees, ensuring production targets, food safety requirements, and quality standards are achieved. You are a visible presence on the shop floor, supporting employees, solving operational challenges, and promoting continuous improvement. You work in a 3-shift system and report to the Production Manager. This role plays a key part in maintaining a strong safety culture, delivering operational excellence, and developing engaged teams in a food manufacturing environment. ‌

• Assist in execution of day-to-day operations for assigned area, ensuring reports are following policies and procedures related to employee safety and food and feed safety.
• Monitor risks associated with products and ensure the quality of the product meets customer specifications.
• Maintain adherence to company safety and hygiene standards.
• Ensure employee and product safety at all times by completing full training according to task procedures and individual needs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, efficiency and operational performance.
• Mentor production workers and participate in their selection. Handle holidays, welfare, performance reviews and engagement, highlight training gaps and needs, disciplines, performance management and absent management.
• Identify risks and recommend areas of improvement and innovation.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Effective communication and team development skills.
• Computer literate
• Previous experience as team leader in a production environment or shown ability in a skilled operative position with the willingness to undertake further qualification if required.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply
• Fluent in Dutch and English

• Experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of HACCP, food safety and quality systems.
• Experience leading operators, production teams or packaging teams.
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, 5S or Kaizen.
• Experience analysing production KPIs including output, downtime, yield and waste.
• Fluent Dutch language skills and a good working knowledge of English.