Production Manager
Kansas City, MO
Coffee Production Environment
General Responsibilities:
- Run all day to day operations, ensuring all orders are produced on time and to the highest quality and safety standards. Non-negotiable Daily Process Include:
- Working on the floor with fellow team members in order to keep work flow moving
- Schedule all production with leads, set them up for success in their departments
- Ability to operate and provide minor repairs to machinery as they fail or need maintenance
- Ensure all product is packed correctly and with 100% accuracy daily
- Suggest and implement improvements to the operations to increase efficiency; improve the operation to make work proactive rather than reactive
- Perform or oversee all daily admin tasks, including all scheduling
- Train new personnel on company standards, procedures and processes
- Solves problems to root cause
- Interacts with other department leaders in healthy manner
- Works with Ops Manager to develop and implement productivity standards
- Problem solving and employee engagement and development
- Understand and drive monthly and quarterly bonus metrics; flex’s employees to production to decrease Cents per Pound
- Flex resources in production or to shipping as work varies day to day
- Ability to meet or beat all measurables for success on a daily basis
Administration:
- Oversee all aspects in the production of finished product
- Promote a healthy team environment by teaching and coaching employees
- Discipline employees as necessary, using the 4 step methodology: Verbal coaching, written coaching, written warning, termination
- Evaluate employees for their overall performance and ability to contribute. Ensure team is well balanced to able to flex
- Ability to work with Shipping Supervisor to produce finished product with a target goal of 100% error free
- Provide daily schedules to all employees and has the ability to be an inspiring leader able to achieve the best performance from employees
- Must have general understanding of excel spreadsheets and be comfortable working with a computer for 15% of the day
Process Ownership:
- Understands and owns all HACCP guidelines and requirements. Lives them day to day
- Understands the process flow in the production of food/coffee
- Knows or learns how to Roast, Blend, Package and Ship Coffee
- Smooth startups; each day should have been invested in the day before and prepped for success
- Productivity Standards by Area. Train employees to flex to eliminate bottlenecks. Tear down all area silo’s
- Smooth shift end (you leave after the last production employee)
- Backfill positions missing (cross training)
- Work with Ops Manager and Production personnel to develop process standards for efficiency and smooth bottleneck transitions
- Shelf life management
- Able to follow Lean Process Management
- Enforce FIFO
- Understands and enforces cold storage methodology
- Build 5S – from clean floors to order picking flow
- Understand and support the RMA process
HR Functions
- Works with Ops Manager to discipline employees as necessary, using the 4-step method: Verbal Coaching, Written Coaching, Written Warning, Termination
- Works with Ops Manager to develop/fully utilize employees or eliminate them
Culture:
- Maintain department moral, emphasizing Team
- Owns the culture of the department
- Develop and enforce work schedules for all employees that support an 8 hour work day. Focus employees on hitting metrics to increase bonus payouts rather than OT
- Model work ethic expected of employees
Please contact me directly with Resume to perry@progressivehrstrategies.com
Referrals appreciated!
Perry Sholes
President
Progressive HR Strategies Inc.
www.progressivehrstrategies.com