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SalaryAssistant Plant Manager
On-Site Job
On-Site Job
Salary Range: $110K to $125K
Why should you join our team?
Steven Charles is part of the rapidly growing Dessert Holdings Family, offering potential career growth opportunities. Dessert Holdings is North America’s fastest growing premium dessert company, recognized for providing retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovative desserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain, and best in class service. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, The Original Cakerie, Lawler’s Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company and most recently, Dianne’s Fine Desserts. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.
The company employs approximately 3,000 people across eight manufacturing facilities and its headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. The manufacturing facilities are geographically dispersed, with two facilities in Canada and one each in Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and North Carolina.
Our location in Aurora, CO has an opening for an Assistant Plant Manager.
The Operations Area Manager manages operations of production areas to ensure that volume, cost, waste, and quality standards are achieved. This person creates, reviews, and follows overall production schedules to manage staffing and establish daily and shift production goals. Responsible for ensuring the best quality products, excellent customer service by maintaining regular quality audits, good manufacturing practices, HACCP, meet or exceed Global Food Safety Standards, and environmental compliance. This is an amazing opportunity to join a high-growth organization and pave the way for future career advancement within the company.
Your Day-to-Day
- Supports General Plant Safety, Food Safety, Food Defense initiatives and Good Manufacturing Practices with an understanding that these are absolutes and are Priority #1. Ensuring that General safety and Food Safety are absolute priorities by setting an example to others.
- Lead the achievement of a zero-injury workplace by ensuring safe working conditions for employees and compliance with all state and federal regulations on environmental, health and safety issues.
- Develops, implements, and manages all production procedures to ensure all plant goals are met.
- Ability to Coach the PCL teams in their daily, weekly and monthly DDS meetings, along with ability to help his PCL teams coach their teams to help continue driving out top losses.
- Supervises, trains and coaches manufacturing management to include responsibility for personnel and labor issues throughout the plant.
- Build a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and professionalism, demonstrating active support for the Company’s culture.
- Responsible for achieving budgets for capital investments, productivity, downtime, and waste for their areas of responsibilities.
- Maintains records for all phases of production relative to the quality of the product, including plant formulation records, and those records necessary for auditing purposes to include order completion and scheduling of holiday production.
- Analyzes results of bakery operations, determines variances from standard, and takes corrective action as needed.
- Take appropriate action to ensure the integrity and sustained certification of the Food Safety and Quality systems.
- Responsible for reporting and taking any necessary action to prevent food safety and food quality problems from occurring.
- Responsible for following and enforcing procedures outlined in the Food Safety Plan and the Food Quality Plan and any other programs that support the food safety and quality systems and other 3rd party audits.
- Conduct performance appraisals of the management team and recommends and/or implements appropriate training programs to address developmental needs.
What You Bring to the Team
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related field preferred. A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted.
- 5-7 years of hands-on management experience and direct manufacturing experience with a consumer goods company preferred.
- Familiarity with the operations of all plant departments: production, quality, maintenance, materials management, and food safety.
- Demonstrated track record of leading the improvement of operations while delivering day to day performance.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- In-depth computer skills: including MS Office and ERP Software.
- Knowledge of business, finance, and management principles.
- Knowledge of performance evaluation and budgeting concepts.
- Experience in reporting on key production metrics.
- Outstanding communication ability.
- Labor relations experience.
Benefits
Dessert Holdings offers a wide range of benefits to employees. Some are subsidized by the company and others are fully employee-paid. Health benefits include a choice of comprehensive medical plans, a dental plan, vision plan. Dessert Holdings sponsors a 401 (k) plan which includes company match. Dessert Holdings offers paid vacation, holidays, and provides wellness/sick, bereavement leave, and others income replacement plans for eligible employees.
EEO Statement
Dessert Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Contact HR if you have any questions.
