Who WE Are
We are a leader in the specialty cheese industry serving our consumers by crafting and importing the best cheeses in the world while caring for our employees and our communities.
**Who YOU Are
You strive for excellence in your area of expertise and are proud to work at a company producing premium products. You are passionate about continuous improvement, enjoy bringing creativity to your work, and are excited to blaze new trails to grow and improve our business. You foster a positive and rewarding workplace culture by valuing flexibility, work-life balance, and team development while inspiring team members to achieve their full potential.
If this sounds like you, we want you to consider joining Emmi Roth!
**Job Summary
This position will be part of the leadership team starting up our new facility in Stoughton, WI.
The Production Manager oversees the 24-hour packaging operations of a food processing facility. Areas of responsiblity include production yield, product quality, food safety, staffing, labor efficiency, resource (raw material) efficiency, and employee safety.
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Operations

• Provides adequate direction to supervisors, leads and line employees to operate an efficient, safe and food safety compliant operation.
• Develops, monitors, and tracks departmental KPI’s and takes appropriate action to support overall company goals.
• Records and tracks all production downtime and implements corrective action as required.
• Monitors inventories, production utilizations, operational efficiencies, and waste to control operational costs.
• Ensures operational adherence to the production planning schedule
• Establishes and monitors standard crewing levels by operational function.
• Provides leadership support as needed for the facility shipping operations.
• Implements ideas for process improvement including soliciting and supporting process improvements suggested by others.
• Responsible for the implementation and continuation of new practices, processes and procedures.
• Promotes and particpates in Emmi Operational Excellence throughout the facility
• Partners with the maintenance team to coordinate maintenance activities.
• Establishes and conducts regular department and supervisor meetings to communicate key metrics, production updates, and important communications
• Reviews and monitors monthly operations budget and discuss budget overruns with plant manager and devise and implement resolution measures
• Assists in preparation of annual operation budgets and capital expenditures for plant operations in order to achieve budgets, under the guideance of the plant manager

Safety

• Ensures that employees work safely and that any unsafe work conditions are corrected immediately to prevent workplace injuries.
• Leads and promotes programs to support a proactive safety culture

Quality

• Works with the Quality Assurance Manager to develop and support quality systems
• Ensures compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and other food safety guidelines
• Provides oversight of plant and production sanitation activities.
• Adheres to ERU food safety policies and all government food safety and sanitation regulations (ex. FDA, HACCP, GMP, OSHA)

People

• Coaches, motivates, and engages employees in all aspects of operations to support the Emmi culture
• Resolves employee relations issues
• Mentors and develops leadership talent within the organziation

Qualifications / Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of educationand experience strongly preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a leadership role in a manufacturing environment
• Must have demonstrated experience of developing leaders
• Food manufacturing experience preferred
• Proven leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communcation skills, with the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of supervisors and employees
• Ability to read and interpret documents, manuals and instructions
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Detail-oriented nature and ability to adapt to change
• Ability to calculate using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages
• Proficient with ERP systems, MicroSoft Office, JD Edwards
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize under pressure
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams

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Job Type: Full-time

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