Growing Food Manufacturer seeking Production Manager
Position Summary:
This position will direct and manage plant floor operations with overall responsibilities for production, quality, and other production related activities. This position requires that the Production Supervisor to spend a significant amount of time on the production floor. In doing so, he/she will work with direct reports to uncover opportunities for process improvement, improved downtime, reduce waste, cost reduction and quality enhancements all in a safe manner. This individual must develop, train manufacturing floor employees by mentoring developing and challenging them.
Essential Functions & Key Responsibilities:
Function: Plant Management
- Commit to overall safety of the plant and procedures.
- Manage up to 30 manufacturing employees at the location
- Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations.
- Increase production, assets capacity, reducing waste and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
- Be responsible for production output, product quality, reducing waste and on time shipping.
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
- Implement strategies in alignment with strategic company initiatives providing a clear sense of direction and focus for production employees.
- Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions.
- Share a trusting relationship with work group and recruit, manage and develop the plant staff. Provide leadership and drive training initiatives for all plant employees. Develop future talent by coaching and mentoring direct reports.
- Collect and analyze data to find areas of waste or overtime and implement an improvement process.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets, quality and safety.
- Participate in monitoring, managing and controlling expenses throughout the year.
- Perform strategic thinking and actively participate in plant and company processes.
- Conduct meetings with employees to communicate company goals, objectives, initiatives and progress to date.
- Build and retain a “customer focused” environment; including internal and external customers.
- Adhere to all plant Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), operating procedures (SOPs). Manage, drive and oversee continuous improvement programs.
- Communicate the needs of all production operations functions to the Management team on an as needed basis.
- Develop and analyze new methods of reducing/avoiding costs, improving products and assuring a safe working environment.
- Create a departmental vision and translate into action items with specific completion dates and delegation of responsibilities to appropriate direct reports.
Candidate Requirements:
- Experience in plant operations, minimum of 1 to 3 years related experience and or training in a manufacturing environment
- Food manufacturing experience is a plus
- Proven technical and leadership ability to utilize structured problem solving to deliver results
- Demonstrated competence to work with minimal supervision effectively at all levels within the organization
- Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the organization
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, with the willingness to learn new systems.
- Superior problem-solving and coaching capabilities
- Ability to create accountability and to lead by example
- Strong team building, decision making and people management skills.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret documents and statistical information
- Request and/or build computer generated reports that measure and track performance of one or more departments
- Exceptional organizational, priority setting and time management skills
- Regulatory requirements including but not limited to wage and hour requirements, company policies, including adherence to standards required by FDA, OSHA, EEO and SQF.
Compensation:
Based on experience.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $65,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
Education:
Work Location: In person