Position Responsibilities

• Assists in leadership of a manufacturing facility department focused on delivering world class sustainable performance
• Ensures safety, health and environmental compliance.
• Directly supervises, motivates and evaluates a team of hourly employees who are responsible for operations involving food production and packaging activities, materials, and warehousing.
• Provides guidance to department for continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provides adequate support, training and development of department staff.
• Implements Food Safety Quality Control functions to meet the Company’s Quality System requirements.

Work Experience Requirements

• Professional Experience – 5 years’ total professional operations leadership experience with progressive responsibility and growth.
• Food or Similar Industry Experience – Food, beverage, pharmaceutical or CPG industry experience in a complex manufacturing environment preferred or a combination of food manufacturing with manufacturing experience in other similar industries preferred.
• Continuous Improvement – Demonstrated track record of understanding and applying continuous improvement principles and practices including the use of root cause analysis
• Quality – Ideal candidate must have had a track record of responsibility for managing to high-quality standards including GFSI in Food Industry or ISO in non-food industry.
• Spanish proficiency preferred.

Culture Fit

The candidate who will be a strong motivational/ cultural fit should demonstrate a high degree of the following leadership traits:

• Adaptability – Ability to read and adapt to their environment and flex their style and approach based on the context. Bring change in a steady, managed way vs. a forced manner.
• Organizational/ Political Savvy – Understand and leverage organization networks and build alliances with key stakeholders throughout the journey. Have a strong sense of organization politics and ability to avoid political pitfalls.
• Teamwork/ Collaboration – Ability to partner with colleagues and teams in a collaborative fashion to deliver work output.
• Strategic Perspective – Ability to maintain a strategic perspective, yet roll-up the sleeves and do work when necessary. Build the strategic framework from which s/he will manage from and leverage key experts to utilize their talents to deliver within that framework.
• Problem-Solving – Sharp and analytical problem-solving skills; Ability to break down issues/ problems methodically and develop sustainable solutions.
• Communication/ Interpersonal Skills – Ability to be a comfortable and open communicator including proactively sharing information, bringing issues/ concerns to the table early and collaboratively working through solutions. Candidate will also demonstrate level of comfort

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.