Production Manager
Company: Sterling Foods
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: August 8, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionSummaryThe Production Manager is responsible for
the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation, of the
Supervisors and employees in the plant; as well as the overall
success of the plant operation. Essential Functions (mental &
physical)
- Direct plant operations to manage and coordinate the
manufacturing of products in a way that ensures products are
produced safely, efficiently and with the highest quality.
- Work closely with production planning to effectively coordinate
and control inventory levels of finished goods.
- Manage plant operations to meet or exceed direct cost standards
for labor and materials controlled and within the scope of the
business requirements.
- Ensure compliance with all Good Manufacturing Practices to keep
the plant's quality assurance programs successful and to ensure all
finished products meet all specifications and regulatory
compliance.
- Support the safety team to ensure the plant's employee safety
programs provide a safe working environment and regulatory
compliance.
- Perform annual goal setting with plant functions around safety,
quality cost, service, and employee development.
- Directs and leads the plant continuous improvement initiatives.
Works closely with corporate and local HR teams to identify
training.
- Continually improve the overall effectiveness of the production
department through improvements to production and administrative
costs, product quality, plant sanitation, plant safety and employee
morale.
- Maintain a favorable labor relations climate by creating
positive working relationships and to involve other in achieving
plant goals.
- Through coaching, training, communicating, problem solving,
leadership and recognition develop a focus for others in creating
and maintaining a continuous improvement environment that includes
proper interpretation and application of company policies as well
as legal and regulatory compliance.
- Communicate with the production scheduler and purchasing
department to review the scheduled plant production and set
priorities.
- Develop and effectively use reporting systems to inform
operating and managerial personnel of the factory performance on a
timely basis.
- Determine standards, budgets, productions goals, and rates,
based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and
workloads.
- Lead and participate in new products and processes being rolled
out.
- Leads employees through participation in daily activities and
score cards, as well as continuous improvement processes, Kaizen
and 5-S events.Non-Essential Functions
- Conduct monthly lunch meetings with employees in an effort to
sustain two way communications about issues, challenges,
successes.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.Supervisory
Responsibility
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- Production Supervisors
- Line Leads
- Quality Department Personnel Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering or other related
field.
- Five years' management experience in food manufacturing
- Experience in commercial baking facility (preferred, not
required)Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
-
- Translated business needs into application and operational
requirements.
- Commitment to overall safety of employees and the work
environment; capable of communicating expectations around safety
and teaching/training why safety guidelines are a priority and
administering discipline when safety guidelines are not adhered
to.
- Proven track record of managing the physical operation of a
manufacturing facility and managing the human resources required,
to include setting goals and expectations, coaching and
discipline.
- Strong communication skills both oral and written.
- Affect change to the culture and employee behavior.
- Strong sense of accountability, and capable of setting goals
and accountability expectations for subordinates.
- Solid problem solving skills.
- Intermediate to advanced computer skills, to include Microsoft
Office Suite and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software (i.e.
SAP, Ross, Oracle, etc.)Physical Demands
- The physical demands described here are representative of those
that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or
feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb
stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste
or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25
pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close
vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth
perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Work hours in excess of forty (40) hours will be required.Work
Environment
-
- Work environment characteristics described here are
representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually
moderate.
- The employee is expected to adhere to all policies and to act
as a role model in the adherence to policies.
Keywords: Sterling Foods, San Antonio , Production Manager, Professions , San Antonio, Texas
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