Food Production Supervisor

Have you heard of Mycelium?

It’s the root structure of mushrooms, growing just beneath the forest floor.

We believe mycelium is the forests’ best-kept secret. With a naturally savory umami flavor and a wonderfully meaty texture, mycelium is a delicious, naturally sustainable option for people seeking a meat alternative. At MyForest Foods, we grow this gourmet mushroom mycelium inside our vertical farm in big, WHOLE pieces that can be sliced up just like traditional cuts of meat. Our first product, MyBacon is winning the hearts of vegans and carnivores alike—and we're just getting started!

Intrigued? If you’re a motivated, inspired, passionate foodie with a drive to revolutionize the future of food, we should definitely talk.

The Role

A Food Production Supervisor at My Forest Foods is responsible for managing and leading a team of Production Operators in food production, with a strong focus on driving individual contributor performance, scheduling, task and role assignment, safety practices, SOP development, and driving production growth for MyForest branded products. This role will play a vital role in ensuring an engaged, safe, and high-performing production team while meeting quality, safety, and productivity targets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the team of Operators and Leads to ensure full shift coverage, cross training, advancement, performance improvement, hiring and terminations where necessary.

• Responsible for ensuring individual contributor performance meets or exceeds the standards of MyForest Foods including but not limited to attendance, attitude, attention to work, flexibility, collaboration, communication, safety

• Responsible for providing prompt, direct, and documented coaching or disciplinary action when individual contributors do not meet the standards above.

• Lead and oversee the production of MyBacon & MyPulled Pork branded products within the PR2 and warehouse, consistently meeting or exceeding quality, safety, and productivity goals.

• This is achieved by spending >80% of time in the food production space

• Responsible for driving productivity without compromising on quality or safety by ensuring production pace, full staffing on time, and working with the Production Manager to optimize process flow

• Run production trials in the room and help the team understand how to time and compare process flows to promote continuous labor and volume improvement

• Collaborate with management to define production facility requirements and provide recommendations for creating a conducive production environment that promotes employee well-being and high performance.

• Ensure the My Forest Foods production team is appropriately staffed to achieve company goals, while striving to build a world-class food production team.

• Enforce the standards and practices outlined in the Food Safety Plan, Quality System, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and other relevant regulations.

• Responsible for ensuring daily that the sanitation plan is followed and all food safety and batch record data is collected and accurate.

• Responsible for timely execution of any corrective actions as specified by the above systems. Including scheduling/supervising re-training as needed.

• Responsible for providing prompt, direct, and documented coaching or disciplinary action when individual contributors do not adhere to food safety, sanitation plans or practices.

• Manage the flow and inspection of incoming production materials.

• Effectively manage the production schedule to meet order commitments.

• Applies Lean Manufacturing principles across all aspects of work

• 5S, DOWNTIME acronym, coaches Production Operators on process bottlenecks and how to address them to maximise production

• Oversee the packaging and storage of finished food products.

• Track inventory of raw materials and finished goods

• Employs visual management strategies (e.g. Kanban) as well as company software

• Expiration date of incoming materials is clearly visible to the team, and production planning is adjusted to ensure we do not lose any product.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to work independently.

Minimum Qualifications and Competencies:

• College degree highly preferred

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in food production with a leadership mindset

• At least 2 years of experience leading a food production team in a large-scale food production facility.

• Food production experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably with produce and/or vegetarian or vegan products

• Demonstrated excellence in managing and developing high-performance production teams.

• Strong interest in the meat alternative market and ability to compare traditional products to alternative meat products.

• Motivational and authentic leader of people and teams

• Inspired by the opportunity to make a significant impact on the planet.

• Committed to creating the world's most delicious foods.

• Skilled in identifying and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Data-driven and systems thinker

• Collaborative approach, working effectively across cross-functional teams to drive growth.

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and embraces change.

• Confident in suggesting ideas and receiving feedback.

• Safety-oriented mindset, actively seeking ways to improve safety in the workplace.

• Familiarity with Google Apps platform (email, calendar, sheets, docs, forms) and Slack

• ServSafe and/or HACCP/HARPC certifications

• Strong emphasis on GMP’s, quality control and cleanliness

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Pay Range $80,000 - $120,000

If you’re inspired by the potential of mycelium and the promise of a well-fed future, join us! Our team is always seeking passionate problem-solvers and forward-thinking foodies. You can expect....

• Immediate benefits (medical, dental, 401k, Employee Assistance Program, PTO starts on day 1!)

• Multiple voluntary benefit options: vision, life, disability, pet insurance, legal support

• Paid time off: vacation, sick, personal, holidays, anniversary vacation, volunteer

• A highly engaged team

• Growth opportunities

• Team bonding experiences