Production Manager Kansas City, MO

• 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