JOB FILLED - Production Manager

Royal Fresh Cuts, is the sister company to Royal Food Service. Royal Fresh Cuts was founded in 2013 as a way to provide customers with a line of premium fresh-cut produce. Visit our website for more details about our company: https://www.royalfreshcuts.com

Overview:
The Production Manager will provide the necessary leadership to ensure that the operations group has the proper operations controls, procedures, people and systems in place to effectively execute daily production schedules.

Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of hourly and salaried associates to ensure efficient production of products.
• Ensures a safe work environment for all associates through actively participating in the plant Central Safety Committee and daily observations.
• Works cross functionally with departments to ensure production operates efficiently while minimizing downtime, meeting scheduling deadlines, and managing labor and associate schedules to budget expectations.
• Continuously promotes motivation among the staff to strive for more efficient and productive manufacturing operations, including modeling and leading high standards of safety, quality, customer service, productivity and efficiency.
• Develop or revise standard operational and working practices to ensure compliance with good manufacturing practices.
• Will perform the duties of the Operations Director in their absence.
• Ensuring that safety and health guidelines are followed
• Monitor production standards
• Communicating effectively with managers and supervisors providing input and utilizing others’ ideas to reach or exceed planned profit margins
• Estimating costs for processed products
• Compile, store, and retrieve production data
• Develop actionable plans to address processing gaps

Leadership Responsibility:

• Energetic forward thinking individual with ability to maintain effective working relationships within all levels of the organization.
• Ability to maintain an active physical presence on the production floor as required
• Ability to manage a project from its initiation to completion with minimal direction and supervision.
• Ability to carry out defined procedures with or without specific instructions including the ability to learn new duties.
• Experience in people development
• Previous experience with staff management
• Capable of working without direction

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of KPI's and tracking
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong business acuity.
• Basic understanding of P&L

• Exceptional skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Basic comprehension of process improvement methodology
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively throughout multiple levels of the organization.

Education and/or Experience:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Advanced in Microsoft Excel
• Established work history in purchasing in the fruit or vegetable industry.
• Four-year degree is a plus.  

Schedule:

• Day Shift
• Weekend availability as needed

Job Type: Full-time

Compensation:

• $85,000 + Based on proven experience.