Production Manager

Description As a Production Manager in New Classic Cooking LLC, you will be involved in the pre-production stage (planning) as well as the production stage. You will report production inventories, make supply order and handling disputes among team members. Must be able to multitask and make employee and product safety and quality your main priority. Finally, but most importantly, you must motivate, support, provide guidance in developing your team. Requirements Train, schedule, supervise, manage, motivate, review performance of your team and identify improvement needs to ensure optimum staffing patterns for the department. Conduct performance review regularly to ensure goal executions. Set productivity goals, conduct follow ups and re-directs as needed with team. Develop workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality. Identify areas of improvement, communicate, and assess production issues regularly to affected departments and managers. Collect data, create, and present reports for improvement and overall production. Ensure standards for product quality, equipment, and operator performance are maintained and that cost-effective approaches are used to maximize production. Initiate recommendations on purchases of new equipment and production assets, lead and effectively manage multi-year capital improvement projects. Manage a departmental budget, monitor plant spending, and report on operating costs and other KPIs within functional areas. Alerts management of cost and labor over run, makes recommendations and implements solutions. Ensure safety and health standards are met to keep an organization accident-free. Influence all staff to report food and personal safety issues to initiate immediate corrective actions. Demonstrate strong ownership of ensuring the highest standards of quality, including keeping the facility audit ready. Monitor, control, and assess changeovers and yields in conjunction with maintenance. Schedule trainings for proper team. Monitor, control and look for improvement of downtimes. Communicate with cross-functional teams about decisions impacting the overall flow of products produced at the plant. Work with Production Manager regarding team’s cross-training needs, coverage, transfer, etc. Work with the Sanitation Department to ensure plant employees conducting sanitation activities are well trained and equipped to complete sanitation activities. Work with the Quality Department to ensure adherence to food safety and management of customer complaints accordingly. Set annual departmental goals (productivity, quality, safety) for the team, conduct periodic milestones follow-ups and re-directs as needed. Develop training plans for supervisors, review performance of your team and identify improvement needs to ensure optimum staffing patterns for the department. Develop a healthy backup bench to keep production team well-staffed. Keep track of team schedules to ensure full coverage in the plant while also accounting for proper use of PTO and promoting a healthy work-life balance. Work actively to maintain and improve NetSuite capabilities and usefulness for the team. Ensure proper reporting and communicate any changes or modifications. Work with QA to keep production team updated with SQF and other regulatory requirements. Actively reduce consumer and customer complaints. Support QA in the elaboration of CAPA and implement and follow up the closure of issues. #J-18808-Ljbffr