Director of Operations
The Food Source International, Inc. · Exton, PA · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also remove navigation, cookie, legal, scam warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The posting includes "About The Role" then description. Then "What You'll Do" with bullet points (asterisks). Then "What We're Looking For" with requirements. Then "Work Environment" with schedule etc. Also there is a note about food safety responsibilities with asterisk. Also "Denotes food safety responsibilities". Also "What We're Looking For" includes bullet list of qualifications. Also "Work Environment" includes schedule, travel, etc. There's no explicit Benefits, Pay sections. So we should not create those unless present. There's no mention of benefits or pay. So we omit Benefits, Pay sections. Schedule: we have typical office hours and travel etc. That is schedule info. So we can include a Schedule section with that content. Also we might have a "Work Environment" which could be considered Schedule? The instruction: Use
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also remove navigation, cookie, legal, scam warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. The posting includes "About The Role" then description. Then "What You'll Do" with bullet points (asterisks). Then "What We're Looking For" with requirements. Then "Work Environment" with schedule etc. Also there is a note about food safety responsibilities with asterisk. Also "Denotes food safety responsibilities". Also "What We're Looking For" includes bullet list of qualifications. Also "Work Environment" includes schedule, travel, etc. There's no explicit Benefits, Pay sections. So we should not create those unless present. There's no mention of benefits or pay. So we omit Benefits, Pay sections. Schedule: we have typical office hours and travel etc. That is schedule info. So we can include a Schedule section with that content. Also we might have a "Work Environment" which could be considered Schedule? The instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings. About the role: we have "About The Role". Responsibilities: "What You'll Do". Requirements: maybe "What We're Looking For" includes experience, education, etc. Qualifications: maybe overlapping with Requirements? Could separate but we should not create thin sections. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But they are separate headings allowed. However we need to decide based on content. The posting has "What We're Looking For" which includes experience, leadership, knowledge, etc. Also "Bachelor's degree ... preferred." Also "Lean/Six Sigma certification ... preferred." Also "Food, Ingredient, Seasoning, Or Related Manufacturing Experience Strongly Preferred." That's qualifications. Could treat as Requirements. Could also have Skills: maybe technical skills like ERP/MRP, financial acumen, etc. But we could combine. However we need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements/Qualifications/Skills, Schedule. We could make sections: About the role (About the role
), Responsibilities (Responsibilities
), Requirements (Requirements
), Schedule (Schedule
). Possibly also Skills if we want to separate technical skills. But to avoid thin sections, maybe combine Requirements and Skills into one Requirements section. But the instruction says use those headings as examples, not mandatory to use all. It says "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can choose which to include. We should include sections that have real specific content. So we can include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Schedule. Possibly also Qualifications if we separate education/certifications. But we can incorporate those into Requirements. Let's decide: We'll have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Schedule. Ensure we preserve all substantive info. We'll need to convert bullet points (asterisks) into - . Also need to keep the note about food safety responsibilities (the asterisk after some bullet points). The note "* Denotes food safety responsibilities" appears after the bullet list? Actually after the bullet list under "What You'll Do" there is a line: "* Denotes food safety responsibilities". Also earlier there is a line: "What You'll Do Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing..." The asterisks appear as part of headings? Actually they used asterisks to denote sections? The text: "What You'll Do Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing, production, warehouse, inventory, and related operational functions. Develop and execute operational strategies aligned with growth, profitability, customer service, quality, and capacity objectives. Ensure production is executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and in accordance with quality and food safety standards.* Evaluate capacity, labor, equipment, materials, and operational constraints to ensure production plans are achievable. Identify and resolve bottlenecks, waste, downtime, and recurring operational issues. Establish standardized processes, clear performance expectations, and accountability across operations. Ensure operational readiness for new products, increased volumes, and process or equipment changes.* Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement* Lead purchasing, procurement, materials planning, demand planning, inventory management, and production scheduling. Align material availability and production schedules with customer demand, inventory objectives, and manufacturing capacity. Lead strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and cost-management initiatives. Build strong supplier relationships and establish supplier performance expectations and accountability. Ensure materials and suppliers meet applicable quality and food safety requirements.* Identify and mitigate supply chain risks, including supplier disruptions, logistics delays, capacity constraints, and ingredient availability.* Inventory & Warehouse* Establish inventory strategies that support production requirements while minimizing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory. Drive inventory accuracy through appropriate controls, cycle counting, audits, reconciliation, and ERP discipline. Ensure warehouse and inventory practices support proper material handling, storage, traceability, and food safety requirements.* Improve inventory turnover, working capital utilization, space utilization, and material flow. Financial & Operational Performance Partner closely with the Vice President of Finance on budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, variance analysis, and business performance. Drive COGS improvements across purchasing, materials, manufacturing, labor, waste, and operational efficiency. Identify opportunities to improve productivity, labor efficiency, asset utilization, throughput, and operating costs. Establish and monitor KPIs across safety, quality, service, production, labor, inventory, purchasing, supplier performance, waste, and cost. Use data and analytics to identify trends, solve problems, and drive fact-based decisions. Champion continuous improvement using root-cause analysis, Lean/Six Sigma principles, and structured problem-solving. Quality, Food Safety & Compliance* Partner with Quality and Food Safety to ensure manufacturing, materials, suppliers, and operational processes meet applicable quality, food safety, regulatory, and company requirements.* Reinforce operational accountability for product quality and food safety.* Ensure operational compliance with applicable safety, OSHA, environmental, food safety, and regulatory requirements.* Ensure operational employees and leaders understand and consistently follow required safety, food safety, quality, sanitation, and operating procedures.* Systems & Technology Lead effective utilization and optimization of ERP, MRP, inventory, planning, scheduling, and related operational systems. Improve data accuracy, visibility, and reporting across operations. Identify technology and automation opportunities that improve efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and decision-making. People & Leadership* Build and develop a high-performing operations organization through hiring, coaching, performance management, development, and succession planning. Lead managers and supervisors with clear expectations, consistent accountability, and regular feedback. Partner with Human Resources on workforce planning, employee relations, organizational structure, performance management, and leadership development. Ensure employees and operational leaders are appropriately trained and accountable for applicable food safety and quality requirements.* Foster a culture of safety, ownership, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and respect consistent with our T.A.S.T.E. values. Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership Serve as the senior operational leader responsible for translating company strategy into effective operational execution. Partner across Finance, Sales, Quality, R&D, Customer Service, Human Resources, and other functions to align demand, supply, capacity, and resources. Provide executive leadership with fact-based recommendations, operational insights, risks, trade-offs, and business impact analysis. Support strategic decisions involving capacity, facilities, equipment, suppliers, outsourcing, technology, and manufacturing capabilities. Support new product introductions by ensuring supply, material, production, capacity, quality, and food safety readiness.* Denotes food safety responsibilities"
So the asterisks appear after section headings like "Operations & Manufacturing*", "Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement*", etc. Also after some bullet points? Actually they used asterisks to denote section headings? The pattern: "Operations & Manufacturing*" then description, then "*" after some sentences? Actually they placed asterisks after headings and after some sentences to denote food safety responsibilities? The note at end: "* Denotes food safety responsibilities". So any heading or sentence ending with * indicates that it includes food safety responsibilities. We need to preserve that meaning. We could keep the asterisk as part of the text? Probably we should keep the asterisk as part of the heading or sentence, but we could also note that it's a marker. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the asterisks as they appear, maybe as part of the text. However we are converting to HTML; we could keep the asterisk characters. The asterisk is not markup; it's just a character. So we can keep them.
We need to strip boilerplate: "The Food Source International is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law." That's EEO boilerplate; remove.
Also remove any duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates.
Now structure:
About the role
The Food Source International is seeking an experienced Director of Operations to lead our manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, and warehouse operations. This role is responsible for connecting materials, people, processes, systems, and production capacity to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality products to our customers while achieving operational and financial objectives. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, the Director of Operations will develop and execute an integrated operations strategy that supports scalable growth, strengthens supply chain reliability, improves manufacturing performance, optimizes inventory and working capital, and drives continuous improvement. We are looking for a hands-on, strategic leader who can see the bigger picture while staying connected to what is happening across our operations. This person should be comfortable using data to make decisions, developing strong teams, challenging existing processes, and building the structure needed to support continued growth.
Then Responsibilities: we need to capture the bullet points under "What You'll Do". The text includes sections with headings like "Operations & Manufacturing*", "Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement*", "Inventory & Warehouse*", "Financial & Operational Performance", "Quality, Food Safety & Compliance*", "Systems & Technology", "People & Leadership*", "Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership". Each heading ends with * maybe indicating food safety responsibilities. We'll preserve the asterisk as part of heading text.
We need to convert each heading and its following sentences into a list item? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should treat each duty as a list item. The headings themselves could be part of the list item text. So we could produce
- Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing... etc.
etc. But we need to keep the asterisk. Could also keep heading as plain text.
Simplify: For each major bullet area, we create a - containing the heading (maybe bold) and the description. However we need to ensure we don't lose any detail.
Let's parse the responsibilities text:
It starts after "What You'll Do". Then we have:
Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing, production, warehouse, inventory, and related operational functions. Develop and execute operational strategies aligned with growth, profitability, customer service, quality, and capacity objectives. Ensure production is executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and in accordance with quality and food safety standards.* Evaluate capacity, labor, equipment, materials, and operational constraints to ensure production plans are achievable. Identify and resolve bottlenecks, waste, downtime, and recurring operational issues. Establish standardized processes, clear performance expectations, and accountability across operations. Ensure operational readiness for new products, increased volumes, and process or equipment changes.*
Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement* Lead purchasing, procurement, materials planning, demand planning, inventory management, and production scheduling. Align material availability and production schedules with customer demand, inventory objectives,
About the role
), Responsibilities (Responsibilities
), Requirements (Requirements
), Schedule (Schedule
). Possibly also Skills if we want to separate technical skills. But to avoid thin sections, maybe combine Requirements and Skills into one Requirements section. But the instruction says use those headings as examples, not mandatory to use all. It says "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can choose which to include. We should include sections that have real specific content. So we can include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Schedule. Possibly also Qualifications if we separate education/certifications. But we can incorporate those into Requirements. Let's decide: We'll have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Schedule. Ensure we preserve all substantive info. We'll need to convert bullet points (asterisks) into - . Also need to keep the note about food safety responsibilities (the asterisk after some bullet points). The note "* Denotes food safety responsibilities" appears after the bullet list? Actually after the bullet list under "What You'll Do" there is a line: "* Denotes food safety responsibilities". Also earlier there is a line: "What You'll Do Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing..." The asterisks appear as part of headings? Actually they used asterisks to denote sections? The text: "What You'll Do Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing, production, warehouse, inventory, and related operational functions. Develop and execute operational strategies aligned with growth, profitability, customer service, quality, and capacity objectives. Ensure production is executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and in accordance with quality and food safety standards.* Evaluate capacity, labor, equipment, materials, and operational constraints to ensure production plans are achievable. Identify and resolve bottlenecks, waste, downtime, and recurring operational issues. Establish standardized processes, clear performance expectations, and accountability across operations. Ensure operational readiness for new products, increased volumes, and process or equipment changes.* Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement* Lead purchasing, procurement, materials planning, demand planning, inventory management, and production scheduling. Align material availability and production schedules with customer demand, inventory objectives, and manufacturing capacity. Lead strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and cost-management initiatives. Build strong supplier relationships and establish supplier performance expectations and accountability. Ensure materials and suppliers meet applicable quality and food safety requirements.* Identify and mitigate supply chain risks, including supplier disruptions, logistics delays, capacity constraints, and ingredient availability.* Inventory & Warehouse* Establish inventory strategies that support production requirements while minimizing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory. Drive inventory accuracy through appropriate controls, cycle counting, audits, reconciliation, and ERP discipline. Ensure warehouse and inventory practices support proper material handling, storage, traceability, and food safety requirements.* Improve inventory turnover, working capital utilization, space utilization, and material flow. Financial & Operational Performance Partner closely with the Vice President of Finance on budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, variance analysis, and business performance. Drive COGS improvements across purchasing, materials, manufacturing, labor, waste, and operational efficiency. Identify opportunities to improve productivity, labor efficiency, asset utilization, throughput, and operating costs. Establish and monitor KPIs across safety, quality, service, production, labor, inventory, purchasing, supplier performance, waste, and cost. Use data and analytics to identify trends, solve problems, and drive fact-based decisions. Champion continuous improvement using root-cause analysis, Lean/Six Sigma principles, and structured problem-solving. Quality, Food Safety & Compliance* Partner with Quality and Food Safety to ensure manufacturing, materials, suppliers, and operational processes meet applicable quality, food safety, regulatory, and company requirements.* Reinforce operational accountability for product quality and food safety.* Ensure operational compliance with applicable safety, OSHA, environmental, food safety, and regulatory requirements.* Ensure operational employees and leaders understand and consistently follow required safety, food safety, quality, sanitation, and operating procedures.* Systems & Technology Lead effective utilization and optimization of ERP, MRP, inventory, planning, scheduling, and related operational systems. Improve data accuracy, visibility, and reporting across operations. Identify technology and automation opportunities that improve efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and decision-making. People & Leadership* Build and develop a high-performing operations organization through hiring, coaching, performance management, development, and succession planning. Lead managers and supervisors with clear expectations, consistent accountability, and regular feedback. Partner with Human Resources on workforce planning, employee relations, organizational structure, performance management, and leadership development. Ensure employees and operational leaders are appropriately trained and accountable for applicable food safety and quality requirements.* Foster a culture of safety, ownership, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and respect consistent with our T.A.S.T.E. values. Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership Serve as the senior operational leader responsible for translating company strategy into effective operational execution. Partner across Finance, Sales, Quality, R&D, Customer Service, Human Resources, and other functions to align demand, supply, capacity, and resources. Provide executive leadership with fact-based recommendations, operational insights, risks, trade-offs, and business impact analysis. Support strategic decisions involving capacity, facilities, equipment, suppliers, outsourcing, technology, and manufacturing capabilities. Support new product introductions by ensuring supply, material, production, capacity, quality, and food safety readiness.* Denotes food safety responsibilities"
So the asterisks appear after section headings like "Operations & Manufacturing*", "Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement*", etc. Also after some bullet points? Actually they used asterisks to denote section headings? The pattern: "Operations & Manufacturing*" then description, then "*" after some sentences? Actually they placed asterisks after headings and after some sentences to denote food safety responsibilities? The note at end: "* Denotes food safety responsibilities". So any heading or sentence ending with * indicates that it includes food safety responsibilities. We need to preserve that meaning. We could keep the asterisk as part of the text? Probably we should keep the asterisk as part of the heading or sentence, but we could also note that it's a marker. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the asterisks as they appear, maybe as part of the text. However we are converting to HTML; we could keep the asterisk characters. The asterisk is not markup; it's just a character. So we can keep them.
We need to strip boilerplate: "The Food Source International is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law." That's EEO boilerplate; remove.
Also remove any duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates.
Now structure:
About the role
The Food Source International is seeking an experienced Director of Operations to lead our manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, and warehouse operations. This role is responsible for connecting materials, people, processes, systems, and production capacity to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality products to our customers while achieving operational and financial objectives. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, the Director of Operations will develop and execute an integrated operations strategy that supports scalable growth, strengthens supply chain reliability, improves manufacturing performance, optimizes inventory and working capital, and drives continuous improvement. We are looking for a hands-on, strategic leader who can see the bigger picture while staying connected to what is happening across our operations. This person should be comfortable using data to make decisions, developing strong teams, challenging existing processes, and building the structure needed to support continued growth.
Then Responsibilities: we need to capture the bullet points under "What You'll Do". The text includes sections with headings like "Operations & Manufacturing*", "Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement*", "Inventory & Warehouse*", "Financial & Operational Performance", "Quality, Food Safety & Compliance*", "Systems & Technology", "People & Leadership*", "Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership". Each heading ends with * maybe indicating food safety responsibilities. We'll preserve the asterisk as part of heading text.
We need to convert each heading and its following sentences into a list item? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should treat each duty as a list item. The headings themselves could be part of the list item text. So we could produce
- Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing... etc.
etc. But we need to keep the asterisk. Could also keep heading as plain text.
Simplify: For each major bullet area, we create a - containing the heading (maybe bold) and the description. However we need to ensure we don't lose any detail.
Let's parse the responsibilities text:
It starts after "What You'll Do". Then we have:
Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing, production, warehouse, inventory, and related operational functions. Develop and execute operational strategies aligned with growth, profitability, customer service, quality, and capacity objectives. Ensure production is executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and in accordance with quality and food safety standards.* Evaluate capacity, labor, equipment, materials, and operational constraints to ensure production plans are achievable. Identify and resolve bottlenecks, waste, downtime, and recurring operational issues. Establish standardized processes, clear performance expectations, and accountability across operations. Ensure operational readiness for new products, increased volumes, and process or equipment changes.*
Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement* Lead purchasing, procurement, materials planning, demand planning, inventory management, and production scheduling. Align material availability and production schedules with customer demand, inventory objectives,
About the role
The Food Source International is seeking an experienced Director of Operations to lead our manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, and warehouse operations. This role is responsible for connecting materials, people, processes, systems, and production capacity to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality products to our customers while achieving operational and financial objectives. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, the Director of Operations will develop and execute an integrated operations strategy that supports scalable growth, strengthens supply chain reliability, improves manufacturing performance, optimizes inventory and working capital, and drives continuous improvement. We are looking for a hands-on, strategic leader who can see the bigger picture while staying connected to what is happening across our operations. This person should be comfortable using data to make decisions, developing strong teams, challenging existing processes, and building the structure needed to support continued growth.
Then Responsibilities: we need to capture the bullet points under "What You'll Do". The text includes sections with headings like "Operations & Manufacturing*", "Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement*", "Inventory & Warehouse*", "Financial & Operational Performance", "Quality, Food Safety & Compliance*", "Systems & Technology", "People & Leadership*", "Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership". Each heading ends with * maybe indicating food safety responsibilities. We'll preserve the asterisk as part of heading text. We need to convert each heading and its following sentences into a list item? The instruction: Use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should treat each duty as a list item. The headings themselves could be part of the list item text. So we could produce
- Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing... etc. etc. But we need to keep the asterisk. Could also keep heading as plain text. Simplify: For each major bullet area, we create a
- containing the heading (maybe bold) and the description. However we need to ensure we don't lose any detail. Let's parse the responsibilities text: It starts after "What You'll Do". Then we have: Operations & Manufacturing* Lead manufacturing, production, warehouse, inventory, and related operational functions. Develop and execute operational strategies aligned with growth, profitability, customer service, quality, and capacity objectives. Ensure production is executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and in accordance with quality and food safety standards.* Evaluate capacity, labor, equipment, materials, and operational constraints to ensure production plans are achievable. Identify and resolve bottlenecks, waste, downtime, and recurring operational issues. Establish standardized processes, clear performance expectations, and accountability across operations. Ensure operational readiness for new products, increased volumes, and process or equipment changes.* Supply Chain, Planning & Procurement* Lead purchasing, procurement, materials planning, demand planning, inventory management, and production scheduling. Align material availability and production schedules with customer demand, inventory objectives,