Production Manager

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop key manufacturing plans and programs toward budgeted unit cost and output objectives.
• Develop strategies and specific programs to meet both long-term growth and short-term manufacturing costs and product quality goals.
• Cook up activities of all manufacturing functional areas to assure continuity towards plant goals, communicating priorities as necessary.
• Develop SOP’s for all production processes.
• Sustain production capacity that is synchronized with sales volume requirements, developing contingency plans as needed.
• Undertake ongoing programs to minimize inventory levels.
• Develop and track annual operating budget for measurement towards objectives.
• Maintain and improve the quality of the plant assets, both current and fixed.
• Develop plans and execute the capital improvement program to maintain/improve existing assets, to improve operating efficiencies and/or to meet expanding volume needs based on OEE.
• Recruit, develop, coach, lead and motivate personnel, constantly raising the standards of performance.
• Develop and improve technical and manufacturing management skills at the plant.
• Maintain effective communication with proper government agencies where required.
• Develop and implement performance standards for all supervisors maintaining current job descriptions and improvement plans.
• Establish appropriate scheduling and employee work schedules in line with customer orders and plant performance requirements.
• Work with Purchasing to establish quality specifications for incoming raw materials, monitoring these raw materials to ensure that specifications are met.
• With Quality/ R&D, develop new products/processes and improve current products/processes.
• Establish procedures and supervise all experimental and test runs, reporting all results.
• Manage inventory of off-spec materials, including the scheduling and reworking of products as needed.
• Maintain and improve all production log data and keep the OEE system updated.
• Work with operations, maximizing OEE through World Class, Six Sigma and other appropriate tools.
• Responsible for maintaining formulation data system including entering all new product formulations.

Position Requirements

• 5-7 years previous management experience in a food grade operation.
• Background in packaging facility.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Excellent knowledge of plant operation procedures and business system software applications.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Previous supervisory experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as a healthy 401(k) company match program.
• The starting annual base salary range for this position is between $90,000-$100,000 USD with initial eligibility consideration for our Discretionary Incentive Plan.
• Additional Compensation offered to eligible employees: Mobile Device Reimbursement and Travel Reimbursement.