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• Managing Processing and Packaging department objectives; interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving issues.
• Monitors the implementation and attention to detail for lock out/tag out, SDS and Accident Reports.
• Manages the operations of production areas to ensure that safety, volume, cost, and quality standards are achieved.
• Ensures physical and staffing resources are adequate to meet the organization's production schedule.
• Manages the activities of production personnel including workflow, assembly methods, and workforce utilization to achieve optimal OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency).
• Assures employee staffing for plant operations meets established standards, with the least amount of overhead and raw material costs to meet annual budgetary plan.
• Identifies, recommends and implements changes to improve productivity and reduce cost and scrap; monitors scrap and rework data.
• Achieve performance targets for productivity, labor efficiencies, on-time delivery, machine downtime, and inventory levels, while mainatining wuality standards within production
• Coach, mentor, and develop leaders and assess and create plans to grow the skills and competencies of frontline employees to meet current and future business requirements.
• Manages tracks and communicates operational KPIs.
• Responsible for Manufacturing month-end and year-end inventory tracking. Makes suggestions for capital expenditures.
• Works with Management on strategic planning for staffing and operations.
• Develops and adheres to annual budgets.
• Supports new product development activities from ideation to post-launch review, partnering with support department personnel to ensure successful, profitable product launches.

• 10+ years previous manufacturing supervision/management role
• Bachelors degree preferred
• Lean Six Sigma a plus
• Previous food industry/confectionary experience preferred, pharmaceutical and/or made-to-order manufacturing environment
• Understands process flow, from raw material to finished product
• Microsoft suite knowledge – Powerpoint for presentations, Excel (pivot tables) for reporting
• ERP experience: NAV preferred (SAP/Oracle)

• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear, and taste or smell.
• Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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