Production Manager

Bimbo Bakeries USA•Phoenix, AZ

25d•$91,500 - $119,000•Onsite

About The Position

Production Department Leaders play an important role in helping BBU bake with world-class practices, win as one team, grow our people, and serve our customers. They embrace the consumer by producing high-quality products and ensure operational capabilities by supporting their team in executing the Operations Excellence Playbook. Our Production Department Leaders empower and involve their team to achieve key performance metrics and equip each Team Leader to win their shift. They create a compelling culture by engaging and developing their team through effective coaching strategies and expect ownership and accountability to help their team achieve results across people, safety, quality, service, and cost.

Requirements

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.
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.
Energized by working toward tangible goals and actively seek opportunities to enhance the status quo, aiming to exceed targets.
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.
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, allowing them to guide and facilitate the continuous improvement efforts within the bakery.
Ability to support the continuous improvement of a world-class bakery through coaching Team Leaders and Associates.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred.
A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted.

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.