TITLE: Assistant Production Manager
POSITION CLASSIFICATION: Exempt
DEPARTMENT: General Production
POSITION REPORT TO: Production Manager / Plant Director
REVISION DATE: 9/19/2022
SUMMARY: The Assistant Production Manager assists plant management with planning and executing production schedules to meet customer demand; hire train and manage production employees and responsible for ensuring quality safety and procedural standards are maintained. This position will report to Plant Operations Leadership.
EXPERIENCE:
- Demonstrable experience identifying errors such as improper procedures scaling hygiene sanitation safety.
- Experience as a chef with a restaurant restaurant chain or other large-scale retail food preparation environment a plus.
- Food manager certification required.
- Sous vide method certification preferred.
- Direct experience training explaining and answering questions regarding recipes proper procedures and measurement techniques to employees.
- Must be able to identify errors such as improper procedures scaling hygiene sanitation safety.
- Provide feedback to employee and provide ongoing coaching to ensure that corrections have been made.
- Attention to details is critical
- Experience using production computer system and excel preferred.
- Requires ability to communicate in English fluently - reading. writing and verbally.
- Ability to communicate in Spanish is preferred.
- Must have excellent listening skills.
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Must have experience successfully developing and delivering training for new and existing employees.
- Must have experience providing regular feedback and coaching.
- Interacts with other employees within the company. Occasionally communicates with external vendors delivery personnel or customers.
- Requires the ability to perform basic addition subtraction multiplication and division.
- Must be able to independently project labor needs to meet customer demands.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelors degree in food science business or related field or related work experience plus 5 years of experience in culinary/food manufacturing environment including at least 2 years as a supervisor.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work closely with production management to meet production requirements in order to meet customer demand and minimize labor expenses.
- Review production schedule complete work orders and enter changes into ERP system; complete productivity and other reports and update information in system and generate reports as necessary.
- Reviews daily and weekly schedule and work with production management to make adjustments as necessary and communicate changes to internal customers as needed.
- Collaborate with production management to identify staffing needs based on scheduling demands.
- Ensures new employees receive all necessary training to properly perform tasks.
- Works with Supervisors to provide regular feedback to line employees regarding their performance recognizing excellence and areas needing improvement. Provides coaching to those who need additional help to improve performance.
- Ensure compliance to all company policies procedures food safety requirements and safety standards.
- Report quality problems to Quality Assurance management.
- Responds in a timely manner to production problems such as equipment failures recipe questions or non-compliance with approved quality standards.
- Perform other duties as required.
Required Experience:
Manager