Manufacturing Manager - Avon, OH

CUSTOM CULINARY

For more than half a century, we’ve focused on a single mission at Custom Culinary®: to create the finest-quality, most authentic bases, sauces and gravies for our foodservice and food processing customers. Developed by our culinary specialists to deliver made-from-scratch taste and inspired results in just minutes, our products bring exceptional aroma, flavor and consistency to all your signature dishes. True Taste begins with Custom Culinary®.CUSTOM CULINARY

Por más de medio siglo, en Custom Culinary® nos hemos concentrado en una sola misión: crear las bases, salsas y aderezos más auténticos y de mejor calidad para nuestros clientes de la industria alimentaria. Desarrollados por nuestros especialistas culinarios para ofrecer un sabor elaborado a partir de cero y resultados inspirados en cuestión de minutos, nuestros productos aportan un aroma, un sabor y una consistencia excepcionales a todos sus platos. El verdadero sabor comienza con Custom Culinary®.

Title: Manufacturing Manager

Location: Custom Culinary Avon, OH

Reports to:  Plant Manager

Number of openings: 1

Differential: No

Purpose of the Position

The Manufacturing Manager directs the daily operations, emphasizing Safety, Quality, Delivery/Service, Cost, Sustainability and Morale in the Plant. This includes overseeing all parts of the production process: batching, staging, mixing, and packaging to ensure the efficient production of quality products. They also drive a lean culture, standardize best practices, and lead continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborating across functions, this position also proposes and spearheads strategic projects aimed at enhancing plant operations.

 Major Duties & Responsibilities

• This person oversees the Manufacturing functions of a facility with 50-75 HC and an overall expense budget of 8-15 MM USD Plans and executes operations in coordination with a master production schedule and other daily activities to ensure manufacturing objectives are accomplished in time, and in a safe & cost effective manner. This position oversees the implementation and achievement of the weekly manufacturing plan for a production facility yielding over 12 million pounds annually.
• Leads by example, fostering a culture of teamwork, accountability, and excellence among his direct and indirect reports and peers.
• Ensures that Manufacturing operations are coordinated and compliant with other support functions, such as Employee Safety, Environmental Management Systems, Food Safety & Quality Systems, R&D, Engineering, Customer Service and Planning to achieve the goals for the assigned factory.
• Leads and champions site-specific continuous improvement programs (GPE/GPS), spearheading GEMBA walks, Kaizen events, and other lean initiatives as necessary, with the objective of improving all Supply Chain dimensions, specially caring for our employees’ wellbeing, reducing defects, optimizing production efficiency, minimizing waste, and reducing costs. This includes evaluating and recommending improvements in methods, procedures, and processes.
• Actively participates in the Employee Safety Committee, and manages the production team’s safety program including training material definition, training support and incident/accident investigation.
• Ensures that Good Manufacturing Practices and Audit requirements are met.

• Works with Engineering and Maintenance to manage installation and startup of capital projects. Identifies process bottlenecks and constraints and provides suggestions and implements solutions for eliminating those obstacles. This includes researching, evaluating, and recommending equipment and/or software technologies.

• Utilizes a Daily Management System to visually display and effectively communicate real time operational performance and historical performance to all employees.
• Manages and maintains the reporting of Metrics, KPI’s, and Scorecards for plant supply chain.
• This position is the Autonomous Maintenance Subject Matter Expert of the site, with working knowledge of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). This position is responsible for the implementation, management, and training of Plant Employees on the Autonomous Maintenance program.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Oversees three production supervisors across three production shifts, and also supervises a Continuous Improvement (CI) Facilitator.
• Guides, educates, coaches, develops, motivates and supervises their direct and indirect team to achieve required Plant results. Conducts regular performance evaluations for production supervisors and provides constructive feedback for improvement.
• Closely monitors operations to ensure that Plant goals are met.
• Observes all organization's policies and applicable laws. 
• Oversees and is responsible for production employees being appropriately trained on all aspects related to their work.
• Is responsible for addressing associate complaints and resolving problems; works with and coaches supervisors to do the same.
• Steps in as production supervisor as necessary, while also managing PTO coordination among the production supervisor team.
• In charge of solving personnel disputes
• Applying disciplinary action

Staffing Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the Plant Manager and HR function to track and manage open headcount and overall staffing requirements for the Production department.
• Is responsible for working with Production leadership team and HR to interview, select, and hire new team members as well as onboard and coordinate new employee’s training.

• Collaborates with internal and external resources to identify, develop, implement, and continually monitor and adjust our internal training programs for production employees.
• Is responsible for managing the overtime assignment and utilization, supporting production plan and budget goals. 
• Decide on staffing & resources deployment or re-deployment as the day-to-day needs happen, being careful to observe long-term goals.

Working Relationships:

Internal

• Reports to the Plant Manager of the site
• Oversees three production supervisors across three production shifts, and also supervises a Continuous Improvement (CI) Facilitator.
• Closely interacts with all support functions: FSQS, HR, Engineering, Safety, Environmental, etc.

External

• Frequently interacts and exerts managerial power over contractors, vendors, consultants, staffing agencies, etc.

Requirements:

Education and/or Experience      

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Food Science, Food Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline is highly preferred.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in Operations, Maintenance, Engineering and/or Continuous Improvement roles coupled with 3-5 years of related management experience, including overseeing supervisors and managing a multi-departmental manufacturing/ production operation.
• Experience in an environment with world class food safety & quality management systems (e.g., ISO 9001, HACCP, BRC, SQF) is required.
• Strong background designing & implementing Continuous Improvement (Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma / TPM) programs and initiatives required.
• Certification in Continuous Improvement (Green/Black Belt, TPM practitioner) strongly preferred. 
• Food or beverage production experience required.

• Ability to design, read, interpret and explain documents such as safety standards, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals is required.                              

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand and walk to communicate and listen effectively.   This will require both office and plant floor environments. 
• Job will require time spent in the Manufacturing and Warehouse areas, requiring proper PPE – lab coat, ear plugs, safety glasses, and hair nets.
•  Intensive use of computer & phone.

Environmental Concerns

• Strong shop floor environment, some office time expected to perform analysis.

EOE – Vet/Disability EEO Notice of Rights

EEO AA M/F/Vet/Disability