Manager Shift

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream

24d

About The Position

Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced, and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe? At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader. Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream brand! With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s & Edy’s, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our teams across our offices and factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream. We are investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations and Supply chain and are transforming how we work at every level to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality. With a renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to flex and make decisions quickly. We are committed to pursuing every great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our consumers, when and where they want it. Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you. Main Purpose of the job: People (your team in area of responsibility). Process (the proper use & cleaning of machinery in your area) Product (delivering products @ the right quality, right time and target cost with correct paperwork)

Requirements

High School diploma or GED required, associate degree preferred.
Aptitude for automated mechanical processes with good troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
Strong leadership and communication skills
Minimum 5 years of supervisory experience in a food manufacturing environment
Knowledge of food safety regulations (HACCP, GMP, or similar)
ability to manage shift operations and coordinate production activities
Excellent interpersonal communication, math and problem solving skills.
Five-years related experience (preferred).

Responsibilities

To plan: Organize, facilitate and control your area.
To ensure that production areas are kept clean and tidy by adopting the clean as you go principle.
Accountability: It is your job to make sure that your team are held accountable for their actions.
Training and developing: Each individual within your team will be set targets to achieve to an acceptable level of knowledge required to operate the machinery. Through agreed training regimes and assessments each individual must be evaluated and reviewed from the start at inductee level. Each stage must be scored to ensure continuous evaluation of each member of your team is equally trained to the business standard.
Your Training: - You will need to ensure that you understand all machinery in your area and work with your manager to address any weaker areas. We have manuals for all the machinery.
Food Safety and Quality: - Your main role and that of your team is to comply with all written documented /controlled procedures which comply with food safety and quality. You will have direct control on quality within your area, using your team members to ensure that standards are always adhered to.
Hygiene & Housekeeping:- Ensure that you adopt at all times a high standard of housekeeping. Your area will be audited and scored; you will need to brief your team daily. Lead by example to ensure that your team comply with all instructions and adhere to the good manufacturing practices treating this business as their own. ‘NO Ghost Busters’, clean as you go principle maintaining dry floors.
Cost Control:- (WASTE & DOWNTIME) Utilizing the resources at hand and the knowledge of the particular product you are running down each line; you will need to minimize where possible in relation to the product. You need to adopt a regime within your team to control and segregate waste within your area.
communication: Face to Face: You will need to adopt an open forum towards communicating with your team, this can be set with an individual or to the whole of your team keeping them up to date. Communicating briefs and de-brief sessions on daily basis by being present on the shop floor making ice-cream at required quality level & controlling the amount of water being used.
Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive group benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, 401K plan with employer match and annual contribution available.

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