Overview

• Business Minded: you have a holistic understanding of how a business functions and what it takes to grow it.
• Improvement Focused: you never turn off the thought “how can I do this better, faster, or with less?”.
• A Natural People Leader: you are a leader and coach adept at providing others with a clear direction, helping them see though the weeds while inspiring, motivating, developing, and empowering them.
• Self-Starter and Creative Problem Solver: you have an understanding of current system needs and operations as well as an outstanding ability to think outside the box and use resources at hand to effortlessly get to the bottom of an issue: big or small.

Responsibilities

• Aggressively champion a Safety Culture. Monitor the manufacturing team to ensure operations are in compliance with health and safety standards.
• Ensure that all products are manufactured in a correct, cost effective and timely manner in alignment with specifications and quality requirements.
• Oversee the planning, organization, quality and production process to ensure availability and use of necessary material, equipment, and labor resources daily.
• Continually assess and identify manufacturing performance gaps.
• Ensure that processes, policies and SOPs are complied with.
• Ensure that all hourly team members are trained and certified for the position they are assigned.
• Coach and provides frequent feedback to managers, supervisors and team members on the correct manner to produce product.
• Ensure all materials, processes, people and schedules are in place for each day of production.
• Proactively address and provide corrective action, in alignment with Human Resources.
• Perform quality controls and monitors production KPI’s.
• Coordinate with other department heads such as the QA manager and Shipping manager to ensure finished products are of the best quality.
• Design and implement plans for the effective use of material and labor resources to achieve manufacturing targets.
• Supervise the operations of manufacturing personnel to ensure the manufacturing process is within budget and time schedule.
• Oversee the hiring, orienting, and training of technical production employees to ensure a competent, motivated, engaged and happy workforce.
• Oversee the regulation of work shift to ensure proper workload distribution.
• Coordinate with the Maintenance manager to ensure that proper preventative maintenance is completed per schedule for all production equipment and machines to ensure efficient operations.
• Analyze and provide solutions to manufacturing challenges or problems.
• Conduct assessments to identify mechanical and procedural limitations that minimize work efficiency.
• Monitor and control the production process to adjust operations in event of a problem.
• Maintain a fair and professional work environment that focuses on the business objectives, but also balances quality of work-life factors for team members.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a Manufacturing company as a mid to senior level manager.
• Strong project management skills.
• Able to multi-task and prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Positive and collaborative approach to driving execution. Able to engage and motivate all levels of team member.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Windows, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Able to take information from multiple sources and create ongoing performance-based training solutions.
• Knowledge of HACCP, SQF, FDA and other Food Safety guidelines.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Food manufacturing experience with a high emphasis on baked, refrigerated goods.
• Knowledge and experience with the Baldrige Manufacturing Excellence model.
• Bi-lingual in English/Spanish and English.

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