Innovative Production USA in Galesburg, IL is a company focused on innovating food for the future through developing patented and patent-pending technology for future forward plant-based proteins. We are looking for highly dependable team players to join our staff as Full-Time Food Processing Facility Line Supervisor (Night Shift). If you’ve always been fascinated with the process of industrial food products and are committed to supporting our brand’s reputation for excellent protein manufacturing, then this is the place for you. Food processing workers are responsible for working in the food production line, monitoring the machinery during the mixing and extraction processes to make sure our product quality standards are being met. We offer attractive pay, and the chance to work 12 hour shifts, so you can spend more time home doing what you want to do, so consider joining us today!

Here’s what you will do:

• Accomplish manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities
• Maintain work flow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments
• Complete production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries
• Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards
• Ensure operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques
• Provide manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests
• Create and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change
• Maintain safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures
• Resolve personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Follow all health and safety regulations when operating equipment
• Ensure regulated and proper headgear, ear plugs, gloves, safety glasses and clothing are worn by Team Members
• Complete all assigned tasks in a timely and efficient manner
• And More

Here’s what you will need to be successful:

• High school diploma or equivalent educational experience; vocational school or trade apprenticeships a plus
• Street smarts with a good work ethic
• Mechanically inclined
• Background or experience in the food industry
• Be 18 years of age
• Comfortable climbing up ladders
• Ability to physically stand, bend, squat, and lift up to 40 pounds
• Positive attitude and work ethic
• Able to work independently or as an active member of a team
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
• Forklift certification is a plus
• English fluency a must and Spanish fluency a plus

Here’s what we offer:

• Competitive pay, depending on experience
• Generous benefit package including employer-paid health, life/AD&D and Short-Term Disability for employee only coverage, cost share for dependent health coverage, employer-paid family dental and vision, HSA, HRA, supplemental life and 401k with employer match.
• PTO and holiday pay

Who we are:

Innovative Production USA is part of a group of companies focusing on Research and Development and the manufacturing of plant-based ingredients in the rapidly growing food industry. Over the past five years, we have built a dynamic cross-functional team, with affiliates and team members dispersed throughout the Midwest including locations in Dakota Dunes, SD, Sioux Falls, SD, the Quad Cities area of Illinois, and the Indianapolis, Indiana metropolitan area, with agents of our sales and distribution network located throughout the USA & Canada.