Job Title:Superintendent 2nd Processing (2nd Shift)
Department: Production / Operations 
Reports To: Processing Manager 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Liberty Plant  
Work Arrangement: On-site 
Shift / Schedule: Full-time 
Travel Requirements: None 
Employment Type: Full-time 

Role Overview / Purpose and Scope

The Poultry Processing Superintendent, Manual Debone Cone Lines is responsible for leading the daily operations of the manual debone cone line area within the poultry processing plant. This role oversees production supervisors and team members to ensure people, processes, and resources are aligned to meet established goals for safety, quality, food safety, operational efficiency, yield, labor utilization, and production flow.

The Superintendent plays a key leadership role in driving department performance, maintaining positive department culture, supporting retention, and developing supervisors and team members. This position is also responsible for monitoring key metrics, identifying trends and opportunities, supporting continuous improvement, and completing accurate operational data reporting for the department.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations for the manual debone cone lines, ensuring production plans are executed safely, efficiently, and accurately.

• Directly supervise, coach, and develop department supervisors and support their leadership of production team members.

• Monitor department performance against key metrics including yield, operational efficiency, labor utilization, throughput, quality, safety, retention, and other assigned measures.

• Drive continuous improvement efforts to reduce waste, improve yield, increase efficiency, and strengthen production flow across the cone line area.

• Partner with supervisors to ensure proper staffing, line assignments, rotation, training, and coverage based on production needs.

• Ensure product quality, trim standards, food safety requirements, packaging specifications, and customer expectations are consistently met.

• Identify trends, defects, downtime causes, or process deviations and implement timely corrective actions.

• Support and enforce all company policies, safety rules, GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP requirements, sanitation expectations, and USDA regulatory standards.

• Maintain a positive, respectful, and accountabledepartmentculture that supports engagement, communication, teamwork, and retention.

• Partner with Human Resources and plant leadership on attendance, performance management, corrective action, retention, and employee relations matters.

• Ensure supervisors and team members receive required safety, food safety, job-specific, and leadership training.

• Prepare, review, and submit accurate operational reports, production data, yield results, labor data, and other department reporting as required.

• Analyze production data and partner with leadership to develop action plans that improve department results.

• Coordinate with Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Human Resources, Scheduling, and other departments to resolve issues and support plant objectives.

• Participate in audits, safety meetings, production meetings, and continuous improvement initiatives as needed.

• Perform all other related duties as assigned by Management.

Compensation

Compensation:$85,000 - $110,000

The posted compensation range for this role reflectsthe minimum andmaximumamount Farmer Focus in good faith expects to pay at the time of posting, based on factors such as internal equity, relevant experience, market data, and the budgeted amount available for the position.

Benefits:Farmer Focus offers a competitive total rewards package designed to support team members9 health, financial well-being, and professional growth. Available offerings may include weekly payroll,paid time off and sickleave, semi-subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision plan options, a 401(k) plan with company match, education reimbursement opportunities, employeeassistanceprograms (EAP), and internal learning, development, and career growth programs.

All benefits, programs, and offerings are subject to eligibility requirements, plan terms, and company policies, and may be changed, amended, ordiscontinuedby Farmer Focus at any time.