Production Supervisor – Feed Mill

About the role

The Production Supervisor – Feed Mill is responsible for overseeing daily feed manufacturing operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and cost‑effective production while meeting quality, volume, and regulatory targets.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise end‑to‑end feed manufacturing steps: raw material receiving, grinding, batching, mixing, pelleting, cooling, crumbling and bagging.
• Ensure production meets volume, quality, formulation and delivery targets.
• Monitor equipment performance, coordinate changeovers and minimise downtime, waste, rework and material losses.
• Lead and supervise operators and support staff, plan shift manpower, conduct handovers and allocate tasks.
• Train employees on SOPs, equipment operation, feed safety and housekeeping.
• Enforce compliance with feed formulations, quality specifications, GMP, HACCP, ISO and feed‑safety standards.
• Prevent cross‑contamination, investigate quality issues and implement corrective actions.
• Enforce workplace safety procedures, PPE use, conduct inspections, toolbox talks and incident investigations.
• Coordinate with Warehouse and Purchasing to ensure raw‑material availability and manage inventory using FIFO practices.
• Work closely with Maintenance on preventive and corrective maintenance, report equipment issues and support troubleshooting.
• Drive continuous‑improvement initiatives: productivity, yield, pellet quality, energy efficiency and cost reduction.
• Support Lean Manufacturing, 5S and Kaizen activities, track production KPIs and prepare accurate reports.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Agriculture, Animal Science, Engineering, Feed Technology or a related field.
• 3‑5 years of experience in feed‑mill or animal‑feed manufacturing operations.
• Previous supervisory or shift‑leadership experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of feed manufacturing processes, formulations and pelleting operations.
• Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, ISO standards and feed‑safety regulations.
• Excellent leadership, communication, problem‑solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Willingness to work in a shift‑based manufacturing environment.

Required skills

• GMP
• HACCP
• ISO standards
• Lean Manufacturing
• 5S
• Kaizen
• KPI tracking
• Preventive maintenance
• Equipment troubleshooting
• Production reporting
• Inventory management (FIFO)