Who we are:
We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement. Leidy's is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wenger Group since 2022. Leidy's is a 130-year-old pork company located on the family farm in Pennsylvania, where Jacob Leidy was deeded the original land grant by William Penn in 1753.
We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 1000 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!
Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com / https://www.leidys.com
Position Summery
This position converts customer demand into executable daily/weekly production schedules across harvest, fabrication/deboning, grinding, and packaging/case‑ready operations. This role balances material availability, labor/crewing, line capacity, yields, and shelf‑life constraints to meet service (OTIF), quality, and cost targets while maintaining USDA/FSIS compliance. The Planner partners closely with Sales/Customer Service, Operations, QA/FSQA, Procurement, and Logistics to keep plans aligned and achievable.
Key Responsabilities
- Enforce all safety programs, including LOTO, machine guarding, PPE, and ergonomic standards.
- Ensure compliance with USDA/FSIS, HACCP, SSOP, GMP, and other regulatory requirements.
- Verify pre‑operational inspections, metal detector checks, scale calibrations, and label accuracy.
- Protect cold‑chain integrity and maintain sanitary conditions throughout production.
- Lead shift activities to meet production schedules, line rates, and output goals.
- Monitor line performance, yields, labor efficiency, giveaway, waste, and first‑pass quality.
- Adjust staffing, line setups, and machine settings to maintain flow and minimize downtime.
- Communicate plan changes and production updates to team members and cross‑functional partners.
- Supervise, coach, and support production employees; address performance concerns and attendance issues.
- Train employees on equipment use, knife safety, product specs, and standard operating procedures.
- Promote teamwork, accountability, and a positive work culture.
- Lead start‑up, mid‑shift, and end‑of‑shift meetings.
- Ensure product specifications (cuts, weights, pack sizes, labeling) are consistently met.
- Partner with QA to address deviations, product holds, and consumer/customer complaints.
- Monitor CCPs, process controls, and rework to prevent non‑conformances.
- Support corrective action implementation and verification.
- Identify opportunities to improve yield, line performance, changeover times, and waste reduction.
- Participate in root‑cause investigations, 5‑Why, or basic industrial problem‑solving efforts.
- Support Lean/5S initiatives and standard work improvements.
- Encourage team ideas for efficiency, safety, and quality enhancements.
- Complete daily production reports, downtime logs, labor tracking, and yield summaries.
- Ensure ERP/MES entries are accurate (production counts, yields, rework, scrap).
- Maintain documentation required for USDA/QA audits and traceability
Knowledge of USDA/FSIS, HACCP, SSOP, GMP, and food safety principles.
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