RETAIL PRODUCTION MANAGER

About Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc.

Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc. is dedicated to being North Americas favorite maker of salads and healthy fresh foods. Our Taylor Family includes over 24,000 team members who are passionate about making high quality, great tasting products for families across North America.

As we continue to rapidly grow, we have a career opportunity available for a talented and motivated individual to join our Taylor Farms New Jersey team as Retail Production Manager location in Swedesboro, New Jersey.

JOB SUMMARY :

Reporting into the Director of Operations, the Production Manager is responsible for both the quality and cost of all production at the NJ Retail facility.

The Production Manager is expected to surpass budget regarding cost of product, labor goals, efficiency standards, as well as expectations for quality throughout production runs.

Having ultimate control over all direct labor in the plant, the Production Manager oversees via direct reports, approximately twenty-five percent of the plantwide workforce in this area.

The Production Manager will need to work well with upstream (sales and procurement) and downstream departments (warehouse) as well as support departments such as Quality Assurance and Maintenance.

Key deliverables include :

• Ability to mentor and develop production supervisors and leads in a promote-from-within environment.
• Ability to grasp the production schedule iterations by product and production area. This includes the understanding of timing and input constraints as well as an ability to cycle finished goods to different production lines based on real time information and evaluation.
• Ability to line staff and labor plan to meet target as well as ensure on time production.
• Able to disseminate metrics and KPIs to direct reports while also able to tailor the delivery of the information and follow up in different manners, depending upon audience and experience.
• Leading by example mentality resulting in majority of their time spent on the floor supporting direct reports and successful daily production allowing a culture of floor presence to thrive with direct reports and their next level of leadership below.

The production manager will be expected and required to spend approximately seventy-five percent of their time directly on the floor.

• Ultimate responsibility for direct labor and a significant portion of indirect labor spends plantwide.
• Must work well closely with the Production Quality team to ensure consistent execution of product builds to customer specification.

Qualifications :

• Five plus years experience in similar production and operational environment required
• Five years experience managing and leading a team of supervisors, leads and front-line employees required.
• Experience in production of short shelf life, perishable, value added-commissary production or like, is strongly preferred, experience within that realm with leafy green wash lines, bagging systems, and rapid pack lines also strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to develop talent required.
• Experience in utilizing plant wide ERP system is required.
• Experience in utilizing other plant wide scorekeeping and production methods is preferred.
• Experience interacting with a tenured management group is preferred.
• Verifiable experience and desire to maintain a lead from the production floor mindset is required.
• Ability to grasp labor and production planning tools is required.
• Bilingual is strongly preferred.
6 hours ago