Manage the safe, low cost and efficient daily operations to ensure production of best quality product. Key areas of focus are Quality, Cost, Sanitation/Safety, Service Delivery, Coaching/Development, and Continuous Improvement.
- Team Leadership: Coaching, engagement and performance management of team. Identify development and training opportunities, provide feedback and guidance in order to ensure success and develop for future roles. Interview, select and hire staff.
- Monitor plant performance: costs for recovery, rates, waste, source operational data and analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Audit good manufacturing and sanitation practices to ensure quality standards are addressed, resolved and sustained.
- Planning: collaborate with Quality Assurance, Safety, Raw and other departmental leaders (daily//weekly) to achieve established quality, raw and financial targets
- Rework planning: providing team with support/guidance to achieve/exceed first time saleable target and reduce waste
- Coordinate employee schedules and ensure team leaders are equipped with necessary tools for effective shift/operations
- Strategy & Planning: Together with plant leadership team, develop short and mid-term site strategies and execution plans to satisfy demand (staffing, ingredient requirements, raw materials etc).
Food safety culture can be defined as the "Shared values, beliefs and norms that affect mindset and behavior toward food safety in, across and throughout an organization. Management is responsible for creating a positive food safety culture, setting expectations, and inspiring others to follow. You are responsible for completing food safety training within your areas of responsibility and supporting the overall food safety program within Cavendish Farms.