Director of Production Operations - Food

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.