Production Manager- Food Industry- 2nd shift Job at Great Kitchens Food Manufacturing, Romeoville, IL

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  • Great Kitchens Food Manufacturing
  • Romeoville, IL

Job Description

Job Title

  • Production Manager- 2nd shift- Monday through Friday from 2pm to 11:30pm

Location

  • Romeoville, IL

Department

  • Production Manager

**Reporting to **

  • Manufacturing Manager

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:

  • Ensure production department performs within budgeted operating standards

  • Resolve variances (production reporting, ingredient usage, labor utilization)

  • Participate and promote GREAT KITCHENS FOOD COMPANY Cares philosophy

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.

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Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level

Required

  • Seven years food manufacturing experience, including managerial experience

  • Production background in food manufacturing

  • Excellent leadership, communications and team building skills

  • General knowledge of process equipment and regulatory compliance

  • Good writing, mathematics, analytical and critical thinking skills

  • Basic accounting knowledge

Computer literate with proficiency in spreadsheet and word applications

Preferred

  • College degree strongly preferred

  • Bilingual English/Spanish reading, writing and translating abilities

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

*The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

*

  • The employee works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to traffic hazards, wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and extreme cold.

  • While performing the duties of this position, the employee is subject to a warehouse and walk-in freezer environment where temperatures can vary from extreme cold to refrigerated.

  • The noise level in the work environment is often moderate to loud.

**Alternate (back up) for this position: **

  • Manufacturing Manager

Food Safety/Quality

  • *Report any issues regarding food safety or quality to supervision and/or quality assurance.

*

  • Report any risks or any evidence of unsafe or out-of-specification product, equipment, packaging or raw materials to a designated manager to enable the resolution of issues requiring immediate attention.

You should be proficient in:

  • Leadership / People Management
  • Language: Spanish
  • Food and Beverage Manufacturing
  • Manufacturing Instruction (MI)
  • USDA Regulations
  • Supervisory Experience
  • Production Optimization
  • Warehouse Experience
  • Lean Manufacturing Principles
  • Scheduling Experience
  • Recruiting and Training Experience

Machines & technologies you'll use:

  • ERP Software

Job Tags

Immediate start, Afternoon shift, Monday to Friday,

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