Production Manager

Cerelia Bakery Canada LP•Hazelwood, MO

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Cérélia's newly established Frozen Breakfast Business Unit is driving an ambitious growth strategy, backed by two manufacturing facilities: US Waffle in Liberty, SC, and in Hazelwood, MO. To effectively support the rapid scaling of operations at our state-of-the-art Hazelwood facility, Cérélia is seeking a dynamic and skilled Production Manager to join our team in Hazelwood, MO We are looking for a Production Manager that provides manufacturing leadership to deliver superb products that meet customers’ and quality standards and ensure excellence in team performance including achieving safety, quality, sanitation, and productivity targets. Create and sustain a nurturing environment that empowers, supports, and develops our employees. This diverse and unique position will expose the ideal candidate to manufacturing and quality processes and plant upkeep.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in related field (Business, Engineering, Food Science, or technical field) or equivalent experience required.
3+ years in a management or leadership role.
5 or more years of experience in an industrial environment, preferably in food manufacturing.
Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of team members in a manufacturing environment.
Active listening skills.
Effectively use key performance indicators and data analysis to drive results.
Demonstrated cost reduction, problem solving, analytical and decision-making skills.
Attentive to details to be able to identify issues, trends, and drive solutions.
Demonstrates expertise in handling multiple projects and meeting deadlines in a complex manufacturing environment.
Flexibility to work off-shifts, including days or nights, weekends, or holidays.
Excellent follow up skills.
Great people skills, maintaining a positive attitude, and the ability to motivate people.
Ability to read and interpret quality documents, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a proactive and solutions-oriented mindset.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual (Spanish) preferred by not required.
Experience with continuous improvement methods such as Six Sigma (DMAIC methodology), Lean (Kaizen events, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, etc.) preferred
Extensive knowledge of bakery operations/processing/formulations preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Inspires continually to seeks opportunities to learn and share the learned knowledge with direct reports and team.
Shows composure, responding consistently, openly, and courageously in all situations.
Demonstrates humility when leading others. Takes a stand for what is right and admits their mistakes.
Assures compliance to all procedures and policies concerning all areas of quality, regulatory, safety and human resources.
Exhibits strong leadership skills, mentoring staff, evaluating employee performance, dealing with performance & behavioral issues, and hiring.
Works with HR to ensure shifts are staffed appropriately.
Works closely with safety, training, quality, maintenance, and R&D departments to drive a culture of continuous improvement.
Drives accountabilities and responsibilities by effectively communicating expectations and changes to production and sanitation teams.
Ensures that finished products are consistently manufactured meeting customers’ and quality standards and expectations.
Plans, assigns, and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
Coordinate’s production activities with purchasing, scheduling, engineering, quality and maintenance to obtain maximum production and utilization of personnel, machines, and equipment.
Supervises and coordinates activities of production employees directly or through supervisors.
Oversees/coordinates on-going training and compliance of team members.
Oversees and reports weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual metrics. Identifies trends and assess opportunities to improve processes and execution.
Approves production schedules to ensure that goals are met, and finished goods inventories and shipments are maintained at the proper level.
Work extensively with continuous improvement on cost reduction and performance improvement opportunities.
Partner with Quality Assurance in implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.
Actively participates on food safety committee and lead assigned quality initiative issued by the committee.
Follows established programs, policies, and practices to produce safe, quality foods that meet SQF, regulatory, company, and customer requirements and ensure team compliance to these policies and procedure.
Ensures daily GMPs audits are conducted by production supervisors and corrective action are documented and conduct RCA on reoccurrences.
Ensures customer complaints and product/ process deviations are analyzed to the root cause and address any people related actions.
Ensures production team meets sanitation requirements during production and disassembly.
Interim sanitation manager providing direction and objectives for the sanitation supervisor and ensuring sanitation program is complaint to regulatory guidelines. Follow established programs, policies, and practices to produce safe, quality foods that meet SQF, regulatory, company, and customer requirements.
Perform quality control tests and ensure dough meet quality standards and customers’ specifications.
Reports to the production supervisor any issues or suggestions to improve quality performance or the working environment.
Follow company safety policies and practices fostering a safe workplace and environment for ourselves and our co-workers.
Makes SAFETY a priority, while carrying out his /her daily activities.
Maintains a safe, clean and sanitary working environment always.