Manager, Production - Romeoville, United States - Great Kitchens Food Company

Great Kitchens Food Company

Verified Company

Romeoville, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Key Accountabilities

General Food Safety and Quality Practices:

Ensures that our products meet the company's standards and specifications
Complete, legible and accurate documentation
Must understand and follow all company Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's)
Food Safety and Quality Standard Requirements are being maintained daily
Must understand and comply with the company Allergen, Food Defense and HACCP policies
Must communicate with Supervision of any Food Safety and Equipment concerns
Follows all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for the area worked
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships

Responsibilities

Oversees and manages day-to-day Plant production:

Lead supervisors and staff to deliver and exceed performance metrics in areas of safety, quality, customer, service, costs, inventory management and production
Manage, analyze, create reports, and develop recommendations from the key metrics (KPIs) of process operations and ensure execution of associated actions
Coordinate, control and schedule production to meet sales and marketing demand levels
Develop policies and procedures targeted to eliminate downtime and improve plant efficiencies
Responsible for upholding, following and maintaining the requirements of the BRC Food Safety Code for Manufacturing.
Other duties as may be assigned or volunteered for.
Provide leadership team with tactical downtime information.
Create a weekly audit to review and analyse current Production Lead and Supervisor LSW, training and coaching new behaviours, and creating support mechanisms.

Ensure compliance with all safety, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and company policies:

Perform production area walkthroughs, investigate problem areas, determine cause, mitigate to ensure policy conformance
Ensure processing area is inspection ready at all times
Address and respond to new product review (PPR) questions and costing
To ensure adequate resources are available to achieve food safety and quality objectives and to support the development, implementation and maintenance and ongoing improvement of the BRC system.

Evaluates Plant performance, monitors expenses and resolves internal and customer issues:

Assists in Personnel Management:

Hire, train, coach and manage Production Plant team
Foster positive employee relations
Measure employee and team performance.
Set forth standards for safety.
Ensure incident/loss prevention and security policies are followed, including accurate and timely incident investigation and execution of corrective actions

Maintain Equipment, Assisting and Safety Practices**:

Work with Supervision and maintenance to maintain equipment in good working condition
Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Correct weighing and recording of any waste to be disposed of
Follows all work instructions
Perform all other work assigned duties as required by Supervision
Keep work area and machinery clean
Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as necessary for task at hand
Must comply with all safety policies and procedures at all times
Utilize all safety devices
Report any unsafe work practices or injuries to your supervisor
Required to maintain a safe and clean work environment
Ensure all production workers complete all safety and other training in a timely manner.
Perform other duties as assigned or required.

Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level

Required

Preferred

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions._
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Regularly required to stand, walk and climb for extended periods of time.
Use a computer keyboard and monitor more than 25% of total work time.

Work Environment