Production Manager

Production Manager

As a Production Manager, you will lead and inspire a team of production partners in a food manufacturing setting to ensure efficient, safe, and high-quality production processes. This role ensures that all food products meet the company's quality standards and comply with regulatory guidelines, while maximizing productivity.

What you'll do :

• Lead, mentor, and coach a diverse team of production supervisors to drive performance, accountability, and engagement. Foster a positive work environment focused on teamwork, open communication, and continuous learning.
• Set clear production goals and create plans to achieve them. Communicate expectations to partners, ensuring that everyone understands their role in achieving business objectives.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between departments to ensure smooth production processes, including but not limited to quality, sanitation, R&D, supply chain, distribution, and Human Resources.
• Organize and lead regular team meetings to discuss safety, performance, key performance indicators, and any challenges or opportunities in the production process.
• Champion a culture of food safety and quality across the plant, ensuring compliance with OSHA, USDA, FDA, EPA, EEOC, OFCCP, and other regulatory standards.
• Establish and monitor production metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) related to production efficiency, safety, and partner performance.
• Identify and communicate customer requirements. Make sure that customer orders are scheduled in a timely manner taking into consideration production efficiencies.
• Identify potential capital improvements going through the analysis, justification, and approval process. Manage or assist in the management of capital projects.
• Lead and manage change initiatives to introduce new technology or processes that enhance overall performance.
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by involving team members in problem solving and process optimization initiatives with a strong emphasis on using problem identification tools.
• Track and maintain control of variable and fixed budgets.
• Administer various company, plant, or department processes in pay systems, performance management, interview processes, etc.

Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and / or support groups. Establishes and audits PCPs, CCPs, and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed :

Eligible partners will receive :

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Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601.

For positions that require any amount of travel : Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.

Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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