Operations Manager - Commercial Food Production

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Role Purpose Statement

At our San Jose operation, excellence in food production starts with exceptional leadership.  

Our San Jose team is looking for an Operations Manager to lead the Cold Food Department, managing frontline leadership and production teams responsible for delivering safe, high-quality products to our customers. 

This role requires a strong collaborator who can build partnerships across departments, drive continuous improvement, and create a culture of accountability, safety, and exceptional service while ensuring daily production goals are achieved.

Main Accountabilities

• Strategically plan, organize, and manage a department with regards to daily hours, schedules, productivity, quality and safety.


• Responsible for department costs to budget through effective manpower planning, scheduling and overtime usage


• Ensure compliance with customer specifications, quality standards, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), safety, health, environmental and other regulations


• Ensure on-time and accurate production in the preparation of food/equipment and catering of flights


• Investigate customer quality issues, develop and implement corrective actions


• Maintain an ongoing, positive and pro-active relationship with all internal and external customers


• Attend the daily operations briefing


• Ensure par levels of customer inventory and customer specific goods


• Provide data for the development of an annual business plan and budgeting for the department


• Ensure optimal deployment of human, technical and material resources in the department


• Initiate and control continuous optimization of processes

Leadership

• Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed


• Guide, motivate and develop the subordinate employees within the Human Resources Policy


• Participates in coaching the expanded Global Performance System (GPS) process, as well as additional career development activities to enhance the effectiveness and potential of the team


• Make the company's values and management principles live in the department(s)


• Plan / Implement and control the cost budget in the area of responsibility; initiate and steer corrective actions in case of deviations


• Participate and support company sponsored initiatives such as Global Quality Standard (GQS), HACCP, Lean Manufacturing, Employee Safety

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.


• 3-5 years of food production experience in a supervisory or management role required.


• 1-3+ years of experience working in a food production or manufacturing environment.


• Experience in using and managing Variable Production Systems and schedules


• Strong presentation, communication, training and interpersonal skills


• Proven success in improving work processes and leading change in a complex, fast environment


• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills


• Demonstrable record of understanding and meeting customer expectations


• Proven track record of understanding the drivers of product and labor cost variances


• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows-based computer application