Production Manager - Premium Chocolate Confectionery

Do you love chocolate? Do you like leading a team that is recognized for making an outstanding product that thousands of customers enjoy??

Join our production team at Feve Chocolates and help lead our team of chocolatiers in making world-class premium chocolate confectionery that our customers love!!

• At Feve Chocolates, we craft beautiful, high-quality confections that delight our customers and reflect our passion for precision and flavor. We’re looking for an experienced Production Manager to help lead our production team of chocolatiers. If you enjoy hands-on culinary work, have excellent leadership skills, like taking initiative, have physical stamina, take pride in consistency, and thrive in a fast-paced artisan environment, we’d love to meet you.

Salary Range: $60,000 to $65,000 per year, plus annual bonus

What You’ll Do:

• Oversee production of the complete range of Feve products, including production of fillings, ganaches, chocolate shells, bars, toffees, panned dragee products, and both enrobed and molded bonbons while ensuring that all products are made according to Feve best-in-class standards in a timely focused manner.
• Helps oversee and supervise picking, packing, and organizing Feve products to be shipped on a timely basis to wholesale, retail and co-packing clients using a high level of attention to detail and disciplined focus.
• Manage execution of time-sensitive production against deadlines, possessing the flexibility required to change and adapt production as customer needs change. Must be experienced leading teams in managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Working with and overseeing the company’s Chocolatiers, help coordinate production flow with packing requirements, shelf life management, and near-term order fulfilment and shipping deadlines
• Check in and inspect raw materials and ingredients from vendors, including recording ingredient traceability and expiration dates.

What We’re Looking For

• Focus, positive attitude and desire to learn very high-end artisanal chocolate-making and support what is required to help the company grow; Ideally, have some knowledge of working with chocolate including its chemistry and tempering techniques
• Preferably 5 or more years of culinary production experience in either chocolate/candy confection-making, baking, or pastry
• Attention to detail, organizational skills, and an above-average ability to multitask with a sense of urgency; ability to do basic math including scaling recipes as appropriate for changing yields
• Clear and frequent communicator, ability to work with people of various personalities
• Ability to perform repetitive tasks, stand for 8 hours, move quickly and lift heavy objects up to and including 40 pounds.
• Must be fluent in English and able to work in the U.S. legally

Why Join Feve?

• Work with a passionate, quality-driven chocolate team that loves what they do
• Be part of a rapidly-growing Bay Area confectionery brand
• Supportive, team-oriented and fun production environment with super-cool equipment
• Opportunities to learn and grow your leadership & confectionery skills

Feve Chocolates is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Annual bonus plan
• Retirement Plan
• Employee discount
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights!
• No weekends!

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus opportunities

Experience:

• Culinary: 5 years (Required), including at least 2 years in a senior leadership role

Language:

• English (Required)

Location:

• San Francisco, CA 94124

Shift availability:

• Day Shift

Work Location: In person

Pay: $60,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Experience:

• Food production: 5 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $60,000 - $65,000