Director of Production Operations - Food
Director of Production Operations - Food
Retail Options
Waterbury, VT
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Director of Production Operations - Food
Healthy, fermented, refrigerated vegetable food products that are vegan, probiotic, non-GMO, gluten free and distributed to over 2000 grocery retailers and natural food stores nationwide.
Responsibilities:
- This position creates and executes the vision, strategy, and tactical plans needed to achieve Operations, Maintenance, and Safety excellence.
- Provide needed visible and actionable leadership to ensure that finished goods are timely produced to specifications, while meeting food safety and cost targets.
- Active in the day-to-day operations in production, packaging, and distribution.
- Direct product line expansion initiatives.
- Develop and maintain robust food safety protocols to ensure compliance.
- Responsible for creating a continuous improvement framework.
- Measures and ensures key goals and objectives are achieved related to safety, maintenance programs, food safety and compliance, cost savings, margin improvement.
- Work with ownership on plant improvement and growth.
- Manage the hiring, training, and employee reviews.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years progressive leadership experience in relevant commercial food operations.
- Strategic and tactical expertise and experience with quality / compliance standards.
- Ability to improve existing systems or procedures that periodically result in new ideas or approaches of considerable significance.
- Understanding of yields, plant efficiencies, and operations procedures.
- Proficient in MS Office Suite.
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Seniority level
Director -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Management and Manufacturing -
Industries
Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Manufacturing
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