Production Training Coordinator (Bilingual English/Spanish)

About Old Souls Farms

Old Souls Farm is a growing food processing and packaging company based in St. Paris, Ohio. Founded in 2017, we started with a simple mission—produce high-quality food with care and consistency—and have since expanded to serve major national brands. With a team of over 250 employees, we take pride in hard work, reliability, and creating opportunities for people who want to build something meaningful together.

Job Summary - The purpose of the Production Training Coordinator is to make sure all production employees are compliant and up to date from a Safety, Quality, and Food Safety training, that vests and smocks are taken care of in a nice, neat and orderly fashion. Help translate and train employees on new processes and procedures, while using our new KPA software system.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads team members identify, manage, and execute the plant's process improvement opportunities
• Identifies problems or bottlenecks in production processes and resolves issues
• Supports continuous improvement goals in safety, quality, cost and waste.
• Responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and creating an engaged and team oriented work force in order to improve business results
• Provide employee training to ensure that employees are performing job responsibilities effectively and correctly
• Enforce plant rules, regulations and procedures
• Evaluate subordinate performance[KH1] [NA2] , communicate with employees, and provide information for work performance improvement
• Participate in the support of plant and company safety programs, promoting and maintaining a high level of awareness and adherence to defined employee safety requirements such as lock-out/tag-out, personal protective equipment, confined space entry, etc
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, listen, and communicate clearly.
• The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.
• Required to follow the proper escalation processes when issues arise
• Distribute/Communicate major company issues and messages as directed.
• KPA system data logging
• Driving Work instruction implementation and improvements 

Basic Job Requirements

• Fully Bilingual in Spanish and English
• Able to prove 18 years of age or older.
• Able to prove status as U.S. Citizen, legal migrant to the U.S., or permanent resident of the U.S.
• Able to work overtime/weekends (if necessary) to complete daily required tasks.
• Able to take direction and carry out orders.
• Able to communicate clearly.
• Able to accept criticism/coaching and act accordingly.
• Knows basic English
• Complete all paperwork correctly and legibly
• Proficient with computers and software for training purposes

Physical Job Requirements

• Able to: * Stand and move on hard surfaces for extended periods of time (9-10 hour increments)
• Squat, crouch, kneel, and reach repeatedly over the course of a working day.
• Withstand cold temperatures for extended periods of time (as low as 34°F).

Schedule:

• 10+ hour shift, Monday-Friday normally, could vary from Sunday night to Friday on Dayshift
• Flexible hours with 1^st vs 3^rd shift, will have proper notice when switching shifts.
• Overtime

Education:

• High school or equivalent