Production Manager - Food Manufacturing

About the role

As Production Manager, you'll have overall responsibility for production departments encompassing processing, filling, labeling and packaging at the company's Las Cruces, New Mexico operation—the largest processing facility of its kind in the world. You'll join a global leader in food and beverage ingredients with 100+ manufacturing facilities worldwide, supplying cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts and spices to leading food and beverage manufacturers.

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing salaried and hourly production employees
• Developing supervisors and other members of the production leadership team
• Managing production performance against established KPIs
• Driving improvements in safety, quality, service, efficiency, waste and cost
• Optimizing labor, materials and production capacity
• Managing production schedules to achieve inventory and customer requirements
• Partnering with Quality to maintain GMP, HACCP and food-safety requirements
• Working closely with Maintenance, Warehouse, Facilities and other Operations leaders
• Supporting production budgets and analyzing financial performance
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities
• Participating in capital investment and plant improvement projects
• Maintaining audit and inspection readiness
• Developing and maintaining SOPs
• Supporting sanitation and food-safety programs
• Building a strong culture of accountability, communication and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 4+ years of food manufacturing leadership experience
• Proven success leading and developing production teams
• Experience managing production budgets, costs and financial performance
• Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, sanitation and food-safety requirements
• Experience using production KPIs to improve performance
• Continuous improvement experience