Manager, Production

Job Category:
Manufacturing & Operations Job Family:
Plant Production

Job Description:

As a Production Manager, you will lead and inspire a team of production partners in a food manufacturing setting to ensure efficient, safe, and high-quality production processes. This role ensures that all food products meet the company’s quality standards and comply with regulatory guidelines, while maximizing productivity.

• Lead, mentor, and coach a diverse team of production supervisors to drive performance, accountability and engagement.
• Foster a positive work environment focused on teamwork, open communication and continuous learning.
• Set clear production goals and create plans to achieve them.
• Communicate expectations to partners, ensuring that everyone understands their role in achieving business objectives.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between departments to ensure smooth production processes, including but not limited to quality, sanitation, R&D, supply chain, distribution, and Human Resources.
• Organise and lead regular team meetings to discuss safety, performance, key performance indicators, and any challenges or opportunities in the production process.
• Champion a culture of food safety and quality across the plant, ensuring compliance with OSHA, USDA, FDA, EPA, EEOC, OFCCP and other regulatory standards.
• Establish and monitor production metrics and KPI’s (key performance indicators) related to production efficiency, safety and partner performance.
• Identify and communicate customer requirements.
• Make sure that customer orders are scheduled in a timely manner taking into consideration production efficiencies.
• Identify potential Capital improvements going through the analysis, justification and approval process.
• Manage or assist in the management of capital projects.
• Lead and manage change initiatives to introduce new technology or processes that enhance overall performance.
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by involving team members in problem solving and process optimization initiatives.
• Track and maintain control of variable and fixed budgets.
• Administer various company, plant or department processes in pay systems, performance management, interview processes, etc.
• Together with the leadership team, ensure compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.
• Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.
• Establishes and audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

• Bachelors in Food/Dairy Science, Agriculture, Business Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain or related field preferred.
• Consideration also given to candidates with high school diploma or GED with 3-5 years of proven Production Leadership experience.
• 2+ years Production Supervisor or equivalent experience.
• Communicate with influence both written and verbally.
• Looking for partners who are proactive, self-accountable, focus on solutions not problems and have a continuous desire to learn, grow and improve themselves and their roles.
• Ability to collaborate with partners from diverse backgrounds and ensure a culture rooted in dignity and respect of others.
• Ability to lead through change and drive organizational growth.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits. When you join our employee-owned company, you’ll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one.
• In addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount - about 8% of your earnings - toward your retirement every year. That’s a company contribution of around 16% in retirement savings annually.
• Earn bonus pay. You’ll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
• Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for a U.S. Salaried position.
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