Production Manager

Bimbo Bakeries USA • Decatur, GA

11h • Onsite

About The Position

Bimbo Bakeries USA is the largest baking company in the world, with over 20,000 associates working to provide fresh products like Arnold®, Brownberry®, Oroweat® bread, Thomas’® English muffins, Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s®, and Marinela® cakes. The company offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and a safe, inclusive work environment that values diversity and promotes development. Production Department Leaders, like the Production Manager, are crucial in ensuring world-class baking practices, fostering teamwork, developing employees, and serving customers. They are responsible for producing high-quality products, supporting their team in executing the Operations Excellence Playbook, empowering their team to achieve key performance metrics, and creating a compelling culture through effective coaching to drive results across people, safety, quality, service, and cost.

Requirements

• Ability to think strategically about business needs, set data-based priorities, and build plans with Team Leaders, fellow Department Leaders, and their Bakery Leader to achieve improved business KPIs
• Experience setting, achieving, and exceeding business performance targets
• Consistently strive to achieve goals, even in the face of obstacles, and will proactively develop contingency plans to ensure goals are met
• Organized and detail-oriented, ensuring that standards and practices are followed meticulously
• Demonstrated experience in building a strong team and the ability to continue inspiring and engaging all associates
• Foster a positive work environment, promote collaboration, and motivate team members to achieve their full potential
• Strong decision-making skills and flexibility in order to drive sustainable operational initiatives and process improvement activities
• Knowledge of commonly used process control and improvement tools
• Ability to support the continuous improvement of a world-class bakery through coaching Team Leaders and Associates
• Prioritize talent development and provide guidance to individuals, enabling them to grow, assume greater responsibilities, and make meaningful contributions to the organization's success
• 5-7 years of hands-on management experience and direct manufacturing experience with a company in the food industry
• Extensive knowledge of bakery operations/processing/formulations
• Strong technical skills and working knowledge of bakery equipment
• Knowledge of safety related issues including compliance with State, Federal and Local regulations

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred

Responsibilities

• Oversee the financial health of the production department, creating and maintaining annual budgets
• Lead the growth and development of Team Leaders and Associates
• Build a culture that values the person, the community, and always acts with integrity
• Partner with Business Unit leadership, bakery leadership team, and cross-functional teams to identify and implement continuous improvement strategies
• Uphold and promote our E5 Leadership Behaviors: Embrace the Consumer, Ensure Operational Capabilities, Empower and Involve, Engage and Develop, and Expect Ownership and Accountability
• Coach Team Leaders towards an empowered, problem-solving mentality to consistently achieve world-class standards
• Operate with a One Team mentality by supporting Team Leaders in collaborating across departments to solve issues and ensure production is to schedule and shipment to order
• Set priorities for department and facilitates problem solving processes and teams to identify, implement, and communicate solutions
• Deliver on Key Performance Indicators for People, Quality, Safety, Service, and Cost
• Engage and develop core competencies in Team Leaders through onboarding, training, coaching, and consistent performance feedback
• Achieve all safety goals. Deliver safety awareness programs in order to eliminate unsafe acts and conditions that contribute to workplace injuries. Comply with workplace standards, company policies and government regulations
• Ensure product quality by identifying, prioritizing, and bringing solutions to focus issues
• Manage budgets for capital investments, pan glazing, downtime, and damages
• Equip Team Leaders to serve sales by analyzing data to ensure all production processes are running efficiently and the team is set up for success

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves
• Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Paid Time Off
• 401k & Company Match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees