Role Overview: The Plant Manager position directs and manages all plant operations with overall responsibilities for production, maintenance, quality and other production-related activities.   

Reports to: COO

Principal Duties as Plant Manager: 

• Direct and manage plant operations for production, maintenance, quality and shipping and receiving.
• Coordinate plant activities through the planning with departmental managers to insure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Develop and control operational budget.
• Implement cost effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages and salaries.
• Establish and monitor overall plant performance for production and quality standards.
• Control and minimize labor overtime, premium freight and repair expenses.
• Maintain existing plant facilities and equipment; replace, or make adjustments to plant facilities and equipment when necessary.
• Provide leadership and training to accomplish the company goals and objectives.
• Incorporates production floor organization and plant cleanliness among plant personnel.
• Provides direction, development and leadership to production manager and supervisors.

Qualifications/Requirements include:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or 5 years plant/general management experience in a manufacturing environment supervising a production work force, with food companies, and ideally cheese companies.
• Knowledge of State and Federal regulations as they pertain to cheese production.
• Knowledge of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point applications to a food production facility.
• Excellent verbal, analytical, and organizations skills
• Ability to multi-task effectively.
• A demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
• Measurement of performance to goals and standards.
• An ability to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost and employee relations.

Role Overview:

The Production Supervisor is the individual directly responsible for daily staffing (hiring, scheduling and management) of the production and packaging rooms, and making sure that our operating equipment is running properly to produce food safe, least cost, high quality products in a safe manufacturing environment (advising maintenance of any concerns). It is also the shared responsibility of this individual to ensure that production workers are trained and observing safe working practices. This individual translates our weekly production schedule at floor level ensuring the right products are produced and properly labeled and produced in the right quantities.  

Reports to: Production Manager

Principal Duties as a Production Supervisor: 

• Creates daily plan for where individuals are stationed in the production and packaging process. Personally trains and oversees other training to ensure this. Approves and keeps track of production and packaging employee vacation schedules.
• Implements/translates daily production schedule at floor level, ensuring that it is met in terms of formula translation and number of required batches.
• May fill in for Production Manager, Warehouse or Sanitation Supervisor in their absence, developing weekly production schedules.
• Ensures finished product is properly labeled per customer requirements.
• Makes sure all necessary raw materials are available and properly staged for efficient production of the daily production schedule.  Work with inventory/warehouse/ordering personnel.
• Translates Ornua’s food quality and food safety procedures, policies and protocols, including HACCP, onto the production and packaging floors. Creates and updates training materials to assist in same. Does the necessary record keeping and documentation encompassed with all programs.
• Problem solves any people or equipment related issues on production and packaging floors as they occur. Documents problem issues as they occur via written report and/or photography and works to resolve issues with the Maintenance Manager.
• Ensures planned filter changes take place and other key production elements.
• Assists with product changeovers.
• Determines when daily breaks are to occur in production and packaging rooms.
• Ensures equipment is ready for end of day sanitation procedures.
• Takes daily attendance and reports temp workers, absences, vacations, and early quits.
• Generates documentation for use on the productions/packaging lines.
• Stays abreast of current thought and practice in food manufacturing and manufacturing in general, through outside reading, networking, attendance at relevant seminars and the use of consultants.
• Helps the Maintenance Manager in ensuring facility meets WDA, FDA and USDA requirements.
• Participate in the Risk Management Program as applicable:
• Assist in accident/near miss incidents as needed.
• Perform daily pre-op audits.
• Review occupational JSA's as needed. 

Qualifications/Requirements include:

• High school education or higher
• 7 years of manufacturing experience, supervising a production work force, with food companies, and ideally cheese companies.
• Excellent people skills.
• Excellent verbal, analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to multi task effectively
• Knowledge of production equipment design (sanitary design knowledge a plus)
• Knowledge of using computer programs, including Word and Excel.
• HACCP/Good Manufacturing Practice knowledge and understanding a must.
• Inventory control experience needed
• Food Allergen and Nutrition labeling law knowledge a plus.