Production Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Who are we?

Nature's Touch has established itself as a leader in the market for the distribution of frozen fruits and vegetables since 2004. We source from all over the world to secure a steady and reliable supply to bring the highest quality frozen fruits and vegetables to our customers at a competitive price and provide consumers with a consistent quality experience every time.

The role

The 2nd shift Production Supervisor is responsible for supervising hourly employees engaged in all phases of the production process. Duties include safety, quality, housekeeping, training, performance management, production productivity, labor utilization, warehousing, and control of raw materials.

Key Responsibilities

• Promotes and encourages a safe, positive, productive work environment.
• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, and quality GMP and Company policies, procedures, and recognized practices.
• Will be responsible for exercising authority and independent judgment on the shift.
• Resolves all production and quality problems that occur on their shift.
• Accountable for providing shift documentation on decisions, shift issues, actions and status updates for the shift for the purpose of compliance and continuous quality improvement.
• Manages staffing assignments for the shift to achieve plant production and labor objectives.
• Helps develop new methods and procedures to optimize manufacturing efficiencies.
• Maintain a supportive and productive work atmosphere through professional conduct and effective communication.
• Anticipates and determines causes of delays in shift operations and takes appropriate action to meet production schedules.
• Responsible for corrective action on food safety and quality problems.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Accurately confirm production counts and review all production paperwork for accuracy on a daily basis to ensure accuracy and update the department KPI's.
• Effectively communicate pertinent information to Management and other departments
• Responsible for the quality of the product produced on the shift.
• Responsible for meeting production efficiency and driving improvements in safety- quality- and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant management work experience ( required )
• Bilingual in English and Spanish. ( needed )
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Must have excellent attention to detail.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.