Job Description

2nd Shift Production Manager – Food Manufacturing

Must be Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Must be a U.S. Citizen or Fully Executed Green Card Holder

Melrose Park, IL | 2nd Shift | Full-Time

We are recruiting a 2nd Shift Production Manager for a food manufacturer in Melrose Park, IL. This person will lead approximately 20 production employees and be responsible for safety, quality, production performance, staffing, and day-to-day shift operations.

This is a good opportunity for someone with food manufacturing leadership experience who enjoys being involved in the operation, developing employees, and keeping production running efficiently.

Schedule

• Monday–Thursday: Approximately 3:30 PM–12:30 AM
• Friday: Typically a shorter shift
• On-site in Melrose Park, IL

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Lead, coach, and manage approximately 20 production employees
• Coordinate daily production activities to meet schedule, quality, and output requirements
• Manage staffing, work assignments, workflow, and production priorities
• Monitor production performance, downtime, labor utilization, waste, and efficiency
• Address equipment, process, material, and production issues that affect the shift
• Partner with Quality, Maintenance, Sanitation, and Warehouse
• Ensure compliance with GMPs, food safety, sanitation, quality, and safety procedures
• Train employees on SOPs, production standards, safety, and operating procedures
• Manage employee performance, attendance, accountability, and development
• Complete required production and shift documentation
• Identify opportunities to reduce downtime and waste and improve productivity and overall shift performance

What We're Looking For

• Food production or food manufacturing experience is required
• Production leadership experience as a Production Manager, Production Supervisor, Shift Manager, Manufacturing Supervisor, or similar
• Experience directly managing approximately 20 employees or more
• Bilingual English/Spanish with the ability to communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking production employees
• U.S. Citizen or fully executed Green Card holder
• Experience managing production schedules, staffing, workflow, and daily priorities
• Knowledge of GMPs, food safety, sanitation, quality, and workplace safety requirements
• Ability to address employee performance and hold teams accountable for safety, quality, and production expectations
• Comfortable working the required 2nd-shift schedule

Technical & Manufacturing Skills

Experience with the following is valuable:

• Food manufacturing / food processing operations
• GMPs, HACCP, preventive food safety controls, sanitation, and allergen controls
• Production scheduling and workflow management
• Production reporting and documentation
• Labor and staffing management
• Downtime, efficiency, waste, scrap, and yield tracking
• Root-cause problem solving and corrective actions
• Continuous improvement / Lean manufacturing
• Equipment and process troubleshooting
• SOPs and standardized work
• OSHA-related manufacturing safety practices
• ERP or production-management systems
• Microsoft Excel and production data analysis

Experience in dairy, cheese, refrigerated foods, meat, bakery, beverage, prepared foods, or other high-volume food manufacturing environments would translate well to this position.