A leading Food manufacturing company is seeking a Production Manager to lead production planning and operational execution. The ideal candidate is a hands-on operations leader with experience in manufacturing environments and team leadership. Working collaboratively, the new leader will improve productivity by streamlining workflows and managing production teams while maintaining quality standards, meeting output targets, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.
Salary + Additional Benefits:
- $70,000-$75,000 + DOE
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- 401K
Location: Katy, TX
Type of Position: Direct Hire
Hours: M-F 6:30-3:30; Saturdays if needed
Responsibilities:
- Support in creating a daily production schedule of materials for processing. This includes ensuring job sheet numbers, lot numbers and packaging requirements are correct for all blend jobs, raw ingredients or finished product. Provide information to the Production Coordinator and ensure a consistent and efficient flow of jobs are provided to the Production teams on a daily basis.
- Maintain communication with management and key personnel regarding any issues or delays in meeting expected completion dates.
- Identify and propose process abnormalities or inefficiencies and discuss making changes with the VP Operations.
- Prepare and post daily job production priority lists, along with any special instructions not included on the job sheets, for day and night shifts to ensure jobs are produced in the correct order and are ran efficiently with minimal downtime.
- Set performance expectations on each job sheet and material and monitor them closely to ensure operators are running efficiently.
- Provide a material list to the Steam Operators to ensure materials are being processed in the steam chambers to comply with the daily production schedule.
- Develop a solid understanding and knowledge of all equipment and every machine (e.g., Sweco, Mills, Nelmor, New Prater, etc). and learn all the assorted cuts and mesh sizes per machine, per material. Train all operators on the most efficient technique to maximize yield and minimize processing time.
- Ensure verification is noted on finished products sent to Gardena location. Operators are required to provide samples of the finished product to QC for pick-up/testing.
- Ensure daily compliance of all GMP (good manufacturing practice) within the Production Department.
- Ensure ingredients are processed with as minimal handling as possible following HACCP/QC food handling requirements.
- Enforce the safe handling of equipment, follow proper procedures with special emphasis on safety (e.g., personal protective equipment). Ensure all production personnel are operating and handling all equipment according to safety training procedures/protocol.
- Coordinate with Receiving, the unloading of products from overseas containers and reverify weights. Production Coordinator will ensure empty containers are scheduled to be picked up with trucking dispatcher and returned.
- Create a material Production schedule, along with the President. Coordinate material runs for each piece of equipment to ensure minimum downtime and processing efficiency, according to the open order report and sales obligations.
- Coordinate with Quality Control and all team members in a collaborative manner, with the goal to produce a quality finished product for company’s general sales & Toll work customers.
- Coordinate daily Steam runs and all associated graphs, forms and equipment processes with the Steam department and coordinate with the VP Operations to ensure maximum efficiency and minimal downtime.
- Develop a solid understanding of production needs, slowdowns, peak seasons, and utilize this information to maximize efficiency in the Production department.
- Provide month-end projections, as requested.
- Process all work to meet metrics/KPIs by continuously training all teams to operate equipment effectively and minimize downtime.
- Consistently monitor all milling screen inventory and ensure only screens that are in good condition are being utilized to produce quality finished product.
- Ensure all teams are cross trained on all milling and blending equipment to maximize efficiency and minimize downtime.
- Attend Monthly Production Manager/Supervisor Meetings.
- Attend Safety Committee Meetings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Identify and propose new practices and improvements to equipment processing line and discuss implementing changes with the VP Operations.
- Manage and lead the production shift supervisors and production employees, conduct ongoing training, coaching and performance management. Train teams in safety, production goal setting, and equipment procedures to maximize efficiency of equipment.
- Oversee and conduct training with all production teams to address material processing issues, and provide solutions, to ensure all materials are being produced efficiently, and according to quality standards.
- Establish performance metrics for the shift supervisors and the production employees to identify areas of improvement and instill necessary changes to increase efficiency.
- Provide ongoing progress reports of production supervisors and production teams’ performance to the VP Operations in order to monitor their efficiency and discuss solutions as needed.
Requirements:
- A High School diploma or equivalent, required. Associate degree in business or related field a plus
- Ability to train out of state 3-6 months
- At least 3 years' experience in Food Manufacturing in a management role required
- Knowledge of manufacturing equipment. Perform minor repairs on equipment to ensure operations continue with minimal delays
- Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacturing and distribution of goods
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Excel, Outlook, Word or related software
- General Lab knowledge (e.g., mesh size, general understanding of specification sheets) is a plus
- Forklift or driving a motor vehicle experience is a plus
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team
- Excellent time management and coordination skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines. Able to work under deadline pressure
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
- Strong work ethic, high energy level and positive attitude. Long-term career minded individual
Due to the high volume of applications we typically receive, we regret that we are not able to personally respond to all applications. However, if you are invited to take the next step in the process, you will typically be contacted within one week of submitting your application.
