Production Manager

Leads bakery operations, directly and through subordinates, in Production, Quality, and Sanitation to achieve all Safety, Quality, Reliability, and Financial goals in support of the Company Values of People, Product Quality, and Profit. This position is accountable for the day-to-day operations of the production departments.

• Effectively communicate results and action plans to all employees and managers.
• Collaborate with finance to create and execute a production and capital budget to ensure that financial allocations and obligations are set, administered and met.
• Initiate cost savings measures relating to crewing, standards and yields.
• Drives employee engagement, training, and development to maximize manufacturing, quality, safety, and productivity goal attainment.
• Develops and prepares production budgets and monitors to ensure compliance.
• Ensure all plant operations and business is conducted in a safe and controlled environment.
• Collaborates directly with production planning and materials management to optimize scheduled attainment and customer service.
• Execute plant-specific vision and mission to assure continuous improvement and alignment with the Enterprise vision for Production Department.
• Direct and oversee production supervisors and their roles and responsibilities throughout the day.
• Ensure all quality and regulatory standards, specifications, and policies are met or exceeded.
• Collaborates with R&D in product development and implementation of plant trials.
• Collaborate directly with human resources to ensure employee issues or concerns are correctly addressed and resolved.

Wants BREAD (BUN specific) knowledge

• Ability to fill role of Plant Manager for short term absence.