PM Operations Manager, FL

Pero Family Farms Food Company LLC•Delray Beach, FL

115d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for the overall success of team and department with day-to-day emphasis on managing people, succession planning, job descriptions, strategy, budgeting, shrink and yield optimization. Exhibits communication leadership while working directly with supply, sales, logistics, distribution, and performance departments. Oversees ongoing production manager scheduling and personnel training.

Requirements

Fresh Produce/CPG Experience
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Industry Experience
2+ years of Operations Experience
Basic skills in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint
Leadership qualities (positively affect/influence others/delegate responsibility)
Possession of key competencies, including conflict management, business negotiation, organization, and decision-making
Prepared to complete relevant training and certification provided or requested by the General manager
Efficient working knowledge of Food Plant Quality, HACCP, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
Ability to follow complex verbal and written instructions and be able to work independently to evaluate and resolve Quality related problems and identify and communicate short-term remedial actions.
Embodies a high level of problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Hands on supervision and training of production personnel
Directs dispatching personnel to ensure timely and accurate scheduling of customer shipments using customer invoices
Manages to receive personnel to ensure proper count and physical inspection of merchandise based upon purchase orders received
Manages proper distribution of products to designated slot locations for stock rotation
Coordinates inner-company transfer of products among warehouses for customer deliveries
Conducts any secondary deliveries to customers due to shortages or mistakes on originally scheduled deliveries
Coordinates with Purchasing Department to ensure adequate inventory is received and available for prompt customer deliveries, including short pick-up purchases
Prepares warehouse for physical inventory
Oversees proper warehouse, maintenance, and safekeeping
Maintains warehouse in full compliance with all Federal, State, and local regulatory safety, labor, worker’s comp, and health requirements
Participates in the overall development of the Division’s Profit Planning Program and control reporting system
Communicates effectively, ie. Staff meetings, employee reviews, reporting, etc
Enforce all Company policies and procedures
Maintain an effective and productive line of communications and cooperation with other departments
Prepare all paperwork in a neat, legible, and timely manner
Complete special projects as assigned
Performance of specific cost studies as required (e.g. delivery, Labor sorting)
Control labor cost
Minimize shrinkage of product
Establish staffing schedules
Ensure the maintenance of all warehouse rolling stock, ie. Forklifts
Ensures that the refrigeration system is working properly in all sections of the warehouse and all proper temperature levels are maintained for all stored products
Selection, training development, motivation, review, and control of warehouse employees to ensure continuity of efficient operations