Production Supervisor

About the role

The Production Supervisor will lead daily bakery production activities across multiple lines and shifts, ensuring that production targets for volume, quality, yield, and efficiency are consistently met. This role requires close monitoring of the entire manufacturing process, from raw material preparation to final dispatch, while maintaining strict food safety and health standards.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise daily production activities on assigned bakery lines and shifts.
• Ensure production plans are achieved in terms of volume, quality, yield, and efficiency.
• Monitor processes from raw material preparation through mixing, fermentation, forming, baking, cooling, slicing, packaging, and dispatch.
• Minimise downtime and product waste while tracking line performance, output, and overall equipment efficiency (OEE).
• Lead, motivate, and allocate manpower for operators, line leaders, and workers.
• Maintain effective shift handovers and communication between teams.
• Enforce HACCP, GMP, food safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards.
• Monitor critical parameters such as dough temperature, mixing time, proofing conditions, baking temperature, product weight, and moisture.
• Ensure compliance with company HSE policies and Saudi Arabian health and safety regulations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Food Technology, Food Science, Bakery Technology, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of supervisory experience in production operations, preferably in a large‑scale industrial bakery.
• Strong knowledge of industrial bakery processes and automated production lines.
• Familiarity with HACCP, GMP, food safety, and hygiene standards.
• Experience with production KPIs, OEE, lean manufacturing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated leadership and team‑management abilities.

Required skills

• HACCP implementation
• GMP compliance
• Food safety and hygiene standards
• Industrial bakery process knowledge
• Automated production line operation
• Production KPI tracking
• Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) monitoring
• Lean manufacturing techniques
• Continuous improvement methodologies