Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: $45,000.00-$55,000.00// Based on Experience

Do you have experience in a high-volume food manufacturing environment? Are you a strong leader, with a commitment to safety and cleanliness? If so, we want to talk to you!

Villari Foods is currently seeking a 1 first-shift Production Supervisor for the VBF Injection department This position will be over the VBF Injection Department . The right candidate will have strong leadership skills, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to quality products. They’ll be responsible for supervising and coordinating employees.

Position Overview:

Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grinding, mixing, stuffing, packing, curing, shipping, and smoking meats such as hot dogs, smoked sausage, hams, loins, bacon, and variety of smoked meats. This position is responsible for food safety.

Specific Duties:

• Following formulas for batching injection, mixing, emulsifying, stuffing, curing, or cooking meats. 
• Work with USDA and QA inspectors to ensure food safety and quality. 
• Work with Human Resources to ensure staffing levels are met, fostering positive employee relations, employee safety, policy & practice adherence, and employment/labor law compliance. 
• Follow specifications for operating and maintaining equipment. 
• Trains workers in safe, productive, efficient operation of equipment. 
• Manage associate performance through training, coaching, and counseling, the performance improvement program, and evaluations. 
• Plans and directs associates in the performing of GMPs, SSOPs, and CCPs for the area. 
• Mixes dry and liquid curing mixtures and spices with meat (injection, and Kitchen only). 
• Controls smoke-room equipment, batching, grinding, mixing, emulsification of raw meat, stuffing into casings, and packing. 
• Observes dial indicators and recording instruments to verify specified operating conditions of smoke houses and to detect machine and equipment malfunctions. 
• Observe the color and appearance of meats and feel products to verify quality. 
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor. 
• Ensure a safe work environment for associates through proactive safety inspections, 
• ensuring PPE is worn, associated training, compliance with written programs, accident investigation, and seeing that any hazards are corrected. 
• Must be trained in HACCP and SQF protocol. 
• Perform all other tasks assigned by management. 

What Villari Foods offers you:

• Competitive compensation
  
• Medical Insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401K
• Paid vacation days and holidays
• Employee discounts on Villari meat products
• Opportunities for employee recognition
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!
• Employment with a great team and a highly experienced supervisor

How Villari Foods is different:

• As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.
• We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.
• The experience each employee has working at Villari is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment:
The work environment characteristics and physical demands 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 essential functions.

• The work environment will include cold temperatures between 50℉ to 10℉ (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, and exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals. Villari Foods will provide cold-weather gear to you.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.

• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds
• Able to drive a registered motor vehicle to satisfy daily requirements
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity
• Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery
• Frequently required to stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.

We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, food service, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. And we’re well known for our smoked products.

As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement:

Villari Food Group is an equal-opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.

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