Operations Manager

Alphia • Pawnee City, NE

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Manager is responsible for managing and scheduling daily plant production, packaging, and shipping efficiently to deliver high-quality products. This role ensures equipment is maintained for optimal operating efficiency and provides effective leadership to maximize production while fostering employee satisfaction. The manager will oversee a team of 15-40 employees and is crucial in supporting and upholding the company’s food safety and quality assurance programs. This includes adhering to food safety regulations, participating in training, reporting concerns, and promoting continuous improvement in food safety practices.

Requirements

• High school diploma and/or GED required.
• A minimum of 5 years production and supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Business management experience working with metrics, goals, objectives, budgets, and planning.
• Willing to work in a team environment and contribute to group goals.
• Strong leadership skills-ability to engage, motivate and develop both hourly and salaried employees with a range of backgrounds, education, and experience.
• A natural coach with a servant leadership style.
• Strong decision-making skills with ability to use data and subjective measures to analyze diverse options to optimize decision that is best for business.
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in written form.
• Ability to receive and provide instructions in a positive manner.
• Basic math skills to include addition, subtraction, and percentages.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to use specifications, directions for processing or complicated drawings, advanced machine drawings, advanced applied mathematics, and handbook formulas.
• Ability to use complicated measuring and testing instruments, including computer hardware and software.

Responsibilities

• Form, develop, and coach an Operating Team.
• Manage daily employee activities such as timekeeping, vacation, overtime, and employee attendance policies.
• Provide performance feedback to employees on a regular basis including performance reviews.
• Assist in the development and formulation of long and short-range planning, policies, programs, and objectives.
• Ensures standards for product quality, equipment, and operator performance are maintained and cost-effective technology is used to maximize production.
• Ensures fixed assets are preserved. Initiates recommendations on purchases of new equipment and improvements to plant property.
• Develops, monitors, and reports on operating costs within functional areas.
• Ensures orders are manufactured according to specifications and quality standards are met.
• Manage policy deployment in the areas of LEAN manufacturing techniques, cost reduction, on-time work order completion, safety, customer satisfaction, and plant performance measures.
• Manage compliance with state and federal agencies.
• Work effectively and relate well with others. Exhibit a professional manner in dealing with others, working to maintain constructive working relationships.
• Apply personnel practices that adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices standards (GMP).
• Recognize downward performance trends and act on that data to improve performance.
• Gather data and execute a daily strategy, which maximizes product quality and productivity.
• Establish and monitor training goals.
• Ensure initial and recurring training is being accomplished and documented.
• Troubleshoot production problems on a timely basis.
• Communicate with other departments to schedule sanitation or maintenance activities.
• Ensure inventory is scanned into and out of the computerized inventory system using hand-held scanners as required.
• Ensure required paperwork is completed accurately and completely.
• Ensure supplies are available for production or packaging.
• Maintain strategic alignment across all shifts.
• Communicate team performance and operation with incoming shifts.
• Accountable for meeting or exceeding safety standards.
• Investigate all accidents occurring on assigned shift.
• Operate forklift (Alphia certification required).
• Responsible for following established procedures to ensure that Alphia produces safe, quality food, meeting all governmental regulations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED