We are looking for a Food Production Manager to lead cold and hot food production in accordance with applicable federal, state, and corporate standards, guidelines, and regulations with established policies and procedures.
Essential Functions
- Direct and assist all food production-related activities, including production, safety, sanitation, and regulatory compliance.
- Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
- Understands business implications of decisions; demonstrates knowledge of company financial measures; aligns work with strategic goals.
- Supports organization’s goals and values; respects diversity; promotes quality and safe work habits.
- Coordinate production process to increase productivity and improve process controls.
- Manage production schedules and processes to minimize overtime.
- Manage workforce accountability for food quality, safety, and productivity.
- Provide direction, guidance, and assistance to employees to enable them to work more effectively.
- Work with internal and external departments.
- Ensure that all production-related records and reports are prepared and maintained timely and accurate.
- Motivate employees by giving positive feedback, always in a respectful manner.
- Manage workforce to cross-train employees and rotate employees regularly.
- Ensure meal processing counts and deadlines are met by checking line progress regularly.
- Ensure accurate counts are produced to specification.
- Ensure employees accurately measure portion control by conducting regular verifications.
- Follow all procedures for reporting Worker’s Compensation incidents and accidents.
- Train employees in production processes and portion control.
- Proactively engage in employee relations issues to resolve them effectively and promptly.
- Manage storage and rotation of daily food production overages to minimize waste.
- Hold regular communication meetings with employees to review production results, safety, and hygiene.
- Communicate schedule changes.
- Ensure employees have the proper tools and equipment needed for production.
- Ensure that HACCP, GMP, and USDA standards are achieved and completed.
- Ensure customer production and labeling requirements are achieved.
Skills and Qualifications
- A minimum of 3-5 years supervising a food production environment. A combination of experience and education is preferable.
- Must have excellent employee engagement, communication, organizational, problem-solving, results-driven focus, decisive decision-making, and time management skills.
- Must possess demonstrated leadership and process knowledge.
- Working knowledge of HACCP, USDA, and FDA compliance.
- Knowledge of HACCP requirements, USDA, GMP, and sanitation requirements
- Knowledge of cold/hot food production processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Computer skills (Microsoft).
- Inventory knowledge.
- Knowledge of quality systems and standards.
- Knowledge of production and manufacturing techniques.
- Business knowledge, finance, and management principles.
- Knowledge of Kitchen machines and tools.
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