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    Production Manager - Chicago, United States - Givaudan Fragrances

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    Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

    In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

    It's easy to see why people all over the world are adding more vegetables to their diets. Packed with health benefits, vegetables offer comforting moments of nostalgia and thrilling new taste explorations. They play a major role in the plant-based protein movement, too. We offer new products offerings to overcome the challenges in today's health conscious consumers. While the food and beverage industry takes responsibility for supporting healthier habits, most consumers are not likely to compromise on indulgence. From the most wholesome, minimally processed ingredients delivering vegetable goodness and authenticity, to the most advanced fresh flavor signature.

    Reporting to the site director, you will be a member of our Bedford Park, Illinois Flavor Operations Management Team being responsible for production manufacturing. Control production of flavors (Fruits and Vegetables), material flow, and inventory to achieve cost and quality targets and production schedules of the production lines. You will improve production processes on basis of LEAN methods.

    • Leadership: A considerable degree of leadership, cooperation, and influence is required to accomplish team and site goals. Determine basic operating policies; establish initiatives and tasks to achieve site objectives. Make independent decisions on most operational issues on a daily basis along with established company policies. Develop high-performing work teams through coaching, training, and engaging team members through cascading of goals, visual performance boards, performance management, and communications of factory changes and performance. Support employee involvement in safety, analytical problem-solving, lean initiatives to foster a teamwork atmosphere.
    • Accountability: Accountable for the safety, health, and welfare of the operational workforces and for maintaining excellent customer service and quality performance. Facilitate initiatives to ensure gross profit, and operational cost efficiencies. Evaluate staff performance and take appropriate action, retention and succession planning taking into account that decisions made as a result of your recommendations affect business volumes, personnel, customers and other departments.Manage the production of intermediate or finished flavor products ensuring that all materials are produced and packaged on time and compliant to the guidelines of Good Manufacturing Practices and safety standards.
    • Operations/Production Management: Maintain highest operations standard with regards to product quality, resource utilization, manufacturing efficiencies, operational safety and environmental protection. Implement initiatives and drive improvement to achieve personal and Operations team performance objectives. Contacts are made with customers, consultants, trainers, and engineering support firms, government and regulatory bodies as necessary.Enhance machinery and equipment in collaboration with the engineering department. Identify/solve process and product related problems. Work in close collaboration with other operations departments.

    You?

    • University degree in chemical/science/business with leadership experience in manufacturing operations.
    • 7+ years of experience in manufacturing operations with progressive experience in people management
    • Demonstrated understanding of financial concepts (e.g. OPEX, CAPEX).
    • Understanding of ISO, FSCC, Food Safety (HACCP, AIB or equivalent), GHP and GMP requirements, EHS.
    • Technical knowledge of manufacturing with working knowledge of chemical or food processing, manufacturing system and logistics management.
    • Understanding of ISO, Food Safety (HACCP or AIB), GMP requirements
    • Understanding of business process/system redesign/change management

    Benefits include medical, dental, vision, tuition reimbursement, and a high matching 401k

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    At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.

    You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

    Every essence of you enriches our world.

    Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

    Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.



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