Quality Food Safety Manager

Bimbo Bakeries USA•Elkhart, IN

4d•$89,900 - $116,900•Onsite

About The Position

This position is within the Production Department at Bimbo Bakeries USA, a company known for brands like Arnold®, Brownberry®, Oroweat®, Thomas’®, Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s®, and Marinela®. The company employs over 20,000 associates nationwide and emphasizes a safe, inclusive, and diverse work environment with opportunities for development. The role is crucial in helping the company bake with world-class practices, foster teamwork, develop people, and serve customers by producing high-quality products and supporting the team in executing the Operations Excellence Playbook. The Production Department Leader empowers their team to achieve key performance metrics and equips Team Leaders to succeed in their shifts. They foster a compelling culture through engagement and development, expecting ownership and accountability to drive 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.
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.
Prioritize talent development and provide guidance to individuals, enabling them to grow, assume greater responsibilities, and make meaningful contributions to the organization's success.

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 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.