Production Manager

Job Description

Manage the safe, low cost and efficient daily operations to ensure production of the best quality product. Key areas of focus are Quality, Cost, Sanitation/Safety, Service Delivery, Coaching/Development, and Continuous Improvement.

• Team Leadership:
  Coaching, engagement, and performance management of team. Identify development and training opportunities, provide feedback and guidance to ensure success, and develop future roles. Interview, select and hire staff.
• Monitor plant performance: costs for recovery, rates, waste, source operational data, and analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Audit good manufacturing and sanitation practices to ensure quality standards are addressed, resolved, and sustained.
• Planning: collaborate with Quality Assurance, Safety, Raw and other departmental leaders (daily//weekly) to achieve established quality, raw and financial targets.
• Rework planning: providing team with support/guidance to achieve/exceed first time saleable target and reduce waste.
• Coordinate employee schedules and ensure team leaders are equipped with necessary tools for effective shift/operations.
• Strategy & Planning:
  Together with plant leadership team, develop short and mid-term site strategies and execution plans to satisfy demand (staffing, ingredient requirements, raw materials etc.).

Required:

Post-secondary education or equivalent industry experience

Preferred: 3-5 Years leadership in production; 3-5 Years Food manufacturing experience