Production Senior Supervisor

International Flavors & Fragrances - South Brunswick, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

South Brunswick, NJ

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

Join the IFF team at our South Brunswick, NJ Plant as a Production Senior Supervisor! You'll lead a team of 15 across multiple shifts, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time performance while adhering to budget. Reporting to the Production Manager, you'll drive continuous improvement programs and supervise shop floor activities in the Vanilla, Terpeneless, Distillation, and Extraction departments. Maintain a safe work environment, promote staff engagement, ensure training compliance, and optimize processes for efficiency. Handle quality issues, maintain communication with Customer Service and Planning teams, and manage employee performance. Contribute to our growth and success by performing administrative functions and supporting IFF policies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the growth, profitability and enhancement of the business by supervising the shop floor activities of the Vanilla, Distillation and Extraction, Terpeneless and Emulsions departments, ensuring all safety, quality, on-time-performance, and cost targets are met.
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment and a high level of safety awareness among associates.
• Promote and maintain staff engagement and commitment to food safety and inventory compliance.
• Supply process engineering support regarding internal and external nonconformance in addition to out of trend product results.
• Ensure proper initial and ongoing training is performed and documented to standard. Promote cross training to enhance operational flexibility and avoid capacity delays. Actively look for continuous improvement opportunities in training methods.
• Continuous optimization of the process equipment and layout to produce quality product efficiently. Lead continuous improvement activities across technologies while providing technical and process engineering support.
• Optimize sequencing, communication, setup, and job execution to produce a quality product, maintaining high service levels.
• Investigate and resolve issues with quality & customer complaints with an outside the box approach.
• Maintain excellent communication with IFF's Customer Service and Planning teams.
• Utilize effective employee management skills, dealing with difficult employee situations and providing constructive feedback. Coach, counsel and develop subordinates to grow and fulfill potential within organization.
• Perform administrative functions in support of IFF policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or related science field is preferred
• 3+ years Distillation and Extraction experience
• 3+ years of Demonstrated Leadership (5+ employees) experience over a Production food industry team.
• Strong understanding of Terpeneless, Emulsions, Distillation and Extraction and Vanilla batch processing sequence in order to properly support this function.
• Process Engineering experience or exposure.
• Project management experience.
• Six Sigma Training.
• Working SAP knowledge.