What You’ll Do for Us
- Responsible for area-specific production process management and improvement activities including identification and communication of opportunity areas, meeting daily production goals, and identification and execution of planned improvements.
- Understands schedules, products, materials, product quality requirements, to manage lines performance and KPIs within labor and operating expenses budget.
- Leads team of 15 to 30 hourly associates with varying levels of experience and education; develops and coaches individuals and the team to solve operational issues; motivates the team to achieve performance goals.
- Participates in the production and people scheduling process and makes adjustments as needed.
- Administers company policies, practices, and adherence to standard operating procedures, which includes enforcing and maintaining safety, food safety and environmental policies and procedures.
- Organizes and facilitates team meetings to educate and promote continuous improvement.
- Maintains and updates processes documentation through the company systems.
- Organizes and facilitates work team meetings, initiates, and implements projects, and improves team communication and engagement.
- Collaborates with maintenance department to improve equipment reliability.
- Ownership of communication within production area and across functions.
- Involves and engages employees through regular team meetings, process improvement discussions, follow-up on suggestions, and regular communication.
- Responsible for effective formal and informal employee coaching, performance management and development.
- Accountable for housekeeping, sanitation, and food safety practices.
- Manages resources effectively to ensure maximum up time, quality and maximum productivity.
- Responsible for Safety Incident documentation and investigation and accountable for reducing safety risks in area through proactively identifying risks (behavior and facility issues) and ensuring quick resolution.
- Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
Qualification & Requirements
- High School diploma or Bachelor’s degree in an operations, engineering, business, management or related area of study.
- Must possess at least 3 years of managerial experience including hiring, employee development, performance coaching, and day-to-day supervision of multiple lines in a production environment.
- Experience with lean manufacturing or similar continuous process improvement training is preferred. Strong orientation for continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of food packaging principles, food industry quality and food safety requirements, ingredient performance and interactions with equipment, sanitation procedures, statistical process control, critical control points, and new product scale-up dynamics.
- Demonstration of strong management and leadership abilities in motivating diverse manufacturing team.
- Project management skills are needed
- Strong computer base knowledge, preferable MS applications are needed.
- Must possess a demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented and challenging environment.
- Must possess effective facilitation, presentation, and team building skills.
What We Can Do For You
Experience: Join a global organization with the limitless opportunity to learn and grow.
Benefits: Full benefits package that starts on day one of employment.
Learning & Development: The ability to work with a world class manufacturing team in state of the art manufacturing facilities.
Skills:
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
Microsoft Office
Continual Improvement Process
Lean Manufacturing
Food Safety and Sanitation
Change Management
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
5s (Inactive)
Quality Control (QC)