Operations Supervisor - Ripon

The Wine Group (TWG) is a leading producer of award-winning wines and alcoholic beverages across 120+ brands. With operations in California, New York and Australia, TWG is an innovator in developing and marketing brands beloved by consumers globally, including Cupcake, Franzia, Benziger, Imagery, Tribute, Chloe, Meiomi, Cooks, 7 Deadly, Cooper & Thief, and more. We produce our products using sustainable practices to create delicious beverages that people can feel good about.

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Under the direction of the Bottling Sr. Manager, Technical Operations Supervisor is responsible for leading and supervising all bottling production personnel. You will be leading teams of high-performance technical operators on high-speed bottling and packaging lines. The Technical Operations Supervisor is a leader of bottling operations, a driver of teams meeting or exceeding daily production needs and all department KPI’s. Technical Operations Supervisor is a steward of the company’s values, asking questions, challenging the status quo.

Technical Operations Supervisor is the shepherd of safety, quality, and performance in Tech Ops department. The ideal candidate needs to have an Engineering Degree or passion for manufacturing-operations, and equipment. Possessing an enthusiasm for leading, mentoring, and coaching of team members in manufacturing.

• Candidate must have a passion for leadership, mentoring and coaching people with a knowledge of leadership theories to support the development and progression of teams.
• Maintain an engaged safety minded workforce through creative motivation, leadership, and accountability.
• Outstanding ability to communicate verbally with strong written skills.
• Motivated for leadership and leading people.
• Expected to identify high performing operators, mentor, and encourage their development.
• Responsible for knowing departmental goals, developing action to achieve departmental goals.
• Promoting first pass quality leading the teams in driving action to improve gaps in processes, teams, systems, and equipment to achieve department goal of 100% FPQ.
• Accountable for the accuracy and completeness of all safety trainings, sanitation paperwork, production line numbers, KPI’s and production line staffing
• Supports reliability engineer’s in identifying and communicating equipment and reliability issues, to support line performance.
• Communication of accomplishments and failures with cohesive plans to resolve and improve deficiencies in system.

• Ability to identify areas of opportunity and independently act upon them.
• Develop and challenge employees during one-on-one meetings – set measurable goals for employees and hold team members accountable to complete tasks.
• Set personal goals with measurements and report tracking of goals to management.
• Lead, Teach, coach, Mentor, and discipline employees.
• Lead changes in work methods, fostering a safety culture, driving process improvements, equipment reliability, reducing operating cost and driving up production performance.
• Enforce the company’s work rules and following all Collective Bargaining Agreements.
• Responsible for facility and equipment GMPs, leader in food safety policy and procedures.
• Maintain a close working relationship with Production Planning, Reliability, Engineers, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Shipping, Engineering and Cellar Operations.
• Communicate daily summaries to appropriate team members.
• This job description reflects management’s assignment of general functions; it does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

• Must be 21 years or older at time of hire.
• 3-5 years supervisory, supervisor experience (manufacturing environment preferred)
• Preferred to have a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing or Chemical Engineering.
• Knowledge of MS Office, Solid Works, and AutoCAD knowledge JDE application preferred.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to set priorities and work independently within set guidelines.
• Strong knowledge of production/manufacturing operations and processes.
• Provide good verbal and written communications to all…