Assistant Production Manager

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey.

About the role

The Assistant Production Manager is a key manufacturing leader responsible for overseeing daily production operations, developing employees, and driving safety, quality, and operational performance. Working cross-functionally with Warehouse, Quality, Planning, Purchasing, and other plant functions, this role ensures products are manufactured safely, efficiently, and on time while supporting continuous improvement initiatives and a culture of accountability and excellence.

Required Shift: 6:30pm – 3:30am M-F

Responsibilities

• Promote a behavior-based safety culture with a goal of creating a zero-risk workplace
• Responsible for promoting continuous improvement while utilizing our GPS process and principles to drive a zero-loss environment
• Maintain high quality standards and zero error tolerance by adhering to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Member of the HACCP team and participates in food safety meetings
• Food safety responsibilities include following designations: receiving, storing, and allergen control procedures. Act as the Sanitation Supervisor and must be knowledgeable of and trained on all housekeeping and sanitation SOPs
• Responsible for developing production budget and monitoring variance to budget
• Responsible for proper document, label, and packaging controls from reweighs through packaging
• Minimize product loss and packaging material waste
• Create and maintain programs designed towards motivating employees
• Review production orders or schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations
• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of manufacturing department function. Directly manages supervisory and non-supervisory employees
• Interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems
• Establish production priorities and sequences for manufacturing products
• Coordinate manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meets specifications
• Review production and operating reports and assist in resolving operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays
• Inspect machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization
• Implement standard operational and working practices and observe workers to ensure compliance with standards
• Ensure regular attendance and after-hours response in the event of plant outage and emergencies
• Provide direction and supervision to manufacturing staff as they work. Monitor labor hours versus production, weekly time card approvals, assign production duties, conduct annual reviews, and identify the best people for the job
• Maintain, store, and retrieve production records and reports
• Coordinate effective onboarding and training for new manufacturing team members
• Counsel, coach, and/or discipline personnel as needed
• Hire, train, evaluate, resolve personnel grievances, and discharge staff in coordination with human resources
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience
• Experience in food, nutrition, supplement, pharmaceutical, or related regulated manufacturing environments
• Proven leadership experience managing and developing production teams
• Strong understanding of safety, quality, and continuous improvement principles
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, or a related field
• Experience with HACCP, GMP, or sanitation programs
• Experience with SAP and Microsoft Office applications

Location

The opportunity will be based in West Haven, CT. As part of our Health & Nutrition business, the West Haven facility plays a key role in manufacturing nutritional premixes and specialty ingredient solutions that support customers across the food, beverage, and nutrition industries.

Benefits

• Opportunity to develop your career on a global stage
• Continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform
• Competitive compensation package including staff discounts
• Generous family leave policy
• Health & dental plan
• Competitive salary
• 401K

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition, and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners, we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5,800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates.