Purchasing Manager

Essential Job Functions/Duties:

• Supervise supply room, support, and department employees.


• Verify daily payroll time sheets for all employees in the department.


• Be responsible for daily paperwork such as but not limited to: absentee sheets, vacation requests, and disciplinary action forms.


•  Comply with all written corporate and plant policies.


•  Be familiar with the various types of machinery throughout the processing plant.


•  Purchase packaging, plant, and maintenance supplies for the Sebastopol complex.


• Unload inventory trucks when needed.


• Issue out maintenance supplies, purchase office supplies for the Sebastopol complex.


• Maintain all the necessary plant inventory levels throughout the year.


• Schedule parts pick-up orders from local area supply vendors


• Fill-in for any supply clerk when they are out for the day or week.


• Maintain the highest possible level of personal hygiene and cleanliness in accordance with plant GMP policies.


• Follow the written specification for packing and labeling of products.


• Physically inspect products for both natural occurring and processing defects.


• Natural occurring defects would be not limited to: deformity, bruising in excess, infection, discoloration, abscess.


• Processing defects would be but not limited to: FM, bones, extraneous material (to included fecal matter), feathers, broken/mis-cut, missed heads, torn, fat levels, etc.


• Identify and report any suspicious or abnormal situations to their immediate supervisor or plant management official. Abnormal situation would be:


• Product tampering


• Willful product adulteration


• Unauthorized employees in restricted areas


• Situation where a belief that product adulteration may be occurring


• Equipment malfunction that may put product wholesomeness at stake

Physical/Mental Requirements:

• Working in a warm/cold/wet/damp environment.


• Standing/walking 100% of the workday.


• Lifting various weights on an as needed basis.

Note: This job description is not all inclusive of what the employee may be asked to do while performing the duties described above. The company reserves the right to modify this job without prior notice.