Fresh Pork Boning Supervisor

Lead Fresh Pork Boning Operations at Clemens Food Group

What does it look like to lead a high-performing production team in a fast-paced, food manufacturing environment where safety, quality, people, and performance all matter?

Clemens Food Group is looking for a Fresh Pork Boning Supervisor to lead daily production operations within our Fresh Pork Boning department. This role will oversee team members working on rib lines, tenderloin operations, trimming stations, boning tables, and other pork fabrication areas.

You won’t just manage a line! You’ll lead people, improve performance, and help deliver quality food our customers can trust.

About Clemens Food Group

For more than 125 years, Clemens Food Group has been guided by a simple principle: do the right thing. As a family-owned, fully integrated food company, we operate across the supply chain, from raising livestock to delivering finished products. We combine tradition with innovation to produce quality food and build a culture where people are empowered to grow, contribute, and succeed.

What You’ll Do

• Lead hourly production team members in Fresh Pork Boning operations, including rib lines, St. Louis-style ribs, regular ribs/spareribs, tenderloins, trim, and related small-piece items.
• Assign employees to workstations based on skill, staffing needs, production flow, safety requirements, and daily schedule priorities.
• Monitor line speed, product flow, staffing, downtime, yield, trim loss, labor efficiency, and overall production performance.
• Ensure products are produced according to customer specifications, food safety standards, quality expectations, and production schedules.
• Coach employees on safe work methods, proper knife technique, product handling, ergonomics, GMPs, and job-specific standards.
• Partner with FSQA, USDA, maintenance, sanitation, HR, scheduling, warehousing, and plant leadership to resolve production, quality, staffing, equipment, and employee issues.
• Identify and correct unsafe conditions, product defects, process bottlenecks, downtime issues, and opportunities for improved efficiency.
• Complete accurate production records, shift reports, safety documentation, quality checks, downtime information, and labor reporting.
• Support onboarding, training, cross-training, job rotation, performance feedback, attendance management, and employee accountability.

What Success Looks Like

• Your team understands the daily priorities and performs safely, consistently, and efficiently.
• Production goals are met while maintaining strong food safety, quality, yield, and customer specification standards.
• You identify issues early, communicate clearly, and take practical action to keep the department moving.
• Employees are trained, coached, and held accountable in a fair and consistent way.
• You build trust across the floor by being visible, responsive, and focused on results.
• You help create a culture where safety, respect, ownership, and continuous improvement are part of the daily routine.

What You Bring

• High school diploma or GED required.
• At least 3 years of experience in food manufacturing, meat processing, pork fabrication, fresh pork boning, or a related production environment.
• Prior lead, trainer, or supervisory experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of pork cuts, boning, trimming, product specifications, yield, food safety, and production efficiency.
• Understanding of GMPs, HACCP, SSOPs, USDA expectations, sanitation practices, and safety requirements.
• Ability to lead employees in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Basic computer, math, communication, and reporting skills.
• Ability to work extended hours, weekends, holidays, and schedule changes based on business needs.

Why This Role

• Direct impact on safety, quality, yield, service, and team performance.
• Opportunity to lead in a critical Fresh Pork production area.
• Hands-on role with strong visibility to operations leadership.
• Chance to develop team members, improve processes, and strengthen daily execution.
• Culture grounded in grit, trust, accountability, and doing the right thing.

Location & Work Environment

This is an on-site, full-time role in a pork processing and manufacturing environment. The facility may include cold temperatures, wet or humid conditions, loud noise, moving equipment, sharp tools, knives, slippery floors, and sanitation chemicals. The role requires standing and walking for extended periods, wearing required PPE, and occasionally lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying up to 50 pounds.

It is the policy of Clemens Food Group to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed