Production Supervisor (Food Supplements)

1. Daily Production Supervision

• Supervise daily production activities based on approved production plans, job orders, batch records, and work instructions.
• Assign tasks to production staff and monitor manpower attendance, productivity, discipline, and work performance.
• Ensure that production staff follow approved procedures, hygiene requirements, safety rules, and GMP standards.
• Check that work areas, tools, equipment, and materials are ready before production starts.
• Monitor actual production output versus target output and report delays, bottlenecks, or issues to the Production & Warehouse Manager.

1. Production Output and Timeline Monitoring

• Track daily production progress, batch completion, line efficiency, and actual output.
• Ensure that production schedules are followed as closely as possible.
• Monitor downtime, rework, rejects, wastage, and production interruptions.
• Coordinate immediately with Planning, Warehouse, QA/QC, or Maintenance for issues that may affect production timelines.
• Help identify causes of low output, delays, or recurring production problems.

1. GMP, Quality, and Safety Compliance

• Ensure that production staff comply with GMP, food safety, sanitation, personal hygiene, and workplace safety requirements.
• Check that production areas are clean, organized, and compliant before, during, and after operations.
• Make sure production staff follow proper gowning, handwashing, line clearance, material handling, and cleaning procedures.
• Coordinate with QA/QC for in-process checks, quality concerns, hold items, rejected materials, and production deviations.
• Stop or escalate production activities when there are quality, safety, contamination, or compliance risks.

1. Materials, Equipment, and Process Coordination

• Coordinate with Warehouse for issuance and return of raw materials, packaging materials, tools, and supplies.
• Check that materials issued to production match the approved batch requirements, quantity, and item specifications.
• Monitor proper use of machines, equipment, tools, and production supplies.
• Report machine concerns, abnormal operations, breakdowns, or maintenance needs immediately.
• Ensure that equipment and work areas are properly cleaned, cleared, and prepared after use.

1. Production Documentation and Reporting

• Ensure that production records, batch records, cleaning logs, manpower records, and output reports are properly completed.
• Review production documents for completeness, accuracy, and timely submission.
• Prepare daily production updates covering actual output, manpower issues, delays, material concerns, machine concerns, quality issues, and other production-related matters.
• Make sure production staff properly record actual usage, yield, rejects, downtime, and other required data.
• Maintain organized and traceable production documentation.

1. People Management and Work Discipline

• Monitor production staff behavior, attendance, punctuality, work habits, and compliance with company rules.
• Coach production staff on proper work procedures, GMP practices, safety rules, productivity expectations, and workplace discipline.
• Report repeated violations, poor performance, attendance concerns, or disciplinary issues to the Production & Warehouse Manager and HR.
• Support training and onboarding of new production staff.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, cleanliness, discipline, and proper work attitude inside the production area.

1. Process Improvement and Production Support

• Recommend improvements in manpower deployment, workflow, production efficiency, documentation, equipment use, and GMP compliance.
• Help reduce production waste, downtime, rework, delays, and avoidable errors.
• Support implementation of new production procedures, systems, and company standards.
• Coordinate with other departments to improve production flow and execution.

Perform other tasks that may be assigned from time to time.

• Bachelor’s degree or vocational background in Food Technology, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations Management, or any related course.
• At least 4 to 7 years of experience in production, manufacturing operations, line supervision, or plant operations.
• Experience supervising production workers in food, beverage, supplement, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or related manufacturing is preferred.
• Knowledge of GMP, food safety, sanitation, production documentation, and basic quality control is required.
• Experience in powder blending, capsule production, sachet packing, bottling, filling, labeling, packaging, or similar manufacturing operations is an advantage.
• Must have experience in manpower supervision, task assignment, output monitoring, and production reporting.

• Strong people supervision and work discipline skills.
• Good understanding of manufacturing flow, production schedules, manpower deployment, and output monitoring.
• Knowledge of GMP, hygiene, sanitation, safety, and quality standards.
• Strong follow-through in checking tasks, output, documents, and production concerns.
• Able to identify delays, bottlenecks, quality risks, and production problems.
• Good coordination skills with Planning, QA/QC, Warehouse, Maintenance, and Management.
• Organized in production documentation, daily reporting, and monitoring.
• Able to work under pressure and manage urgent production requirements.
• Firm but fair in handling production staff.
• Able to work independently and enforce company standards with minimal supervision.