Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Plans flow of materials through department according to work orders.
• Inspects, measures, and takes samples of product to verify conformance to specifications.
• Directs workers in adjusting machines and equipment to repair products that fail to meet standards.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Develops, recommends, and implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of line, department or work crew.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Estimates, requisitions, and inspects materials.
• Studies production order to ascertain type and quantity of product, containers to be used, and packaging requirements.
• Coordinates action for substandard product.
• Observes packaging operations and inspects baskets and packages to verify conformance to specifications.
• Requisitions containers and other supplies for delivery to work stations.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements needed for completion of job assignment.
• Designates breaks within production.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Maintains time and production records, including break sheets, pre and post operational inspections, as well as other safety, food safety, and quality records.
• Assigns job duties to workers.
• Coordinates repair work with general maintenance.
• Ensures pre- and post-operational inspection was completed and recorded.
• Adjusts’ recipes to sustain product quality.
• Receives bulk materials.
• Ensures cleanliness of work area is maintained.
• Ensures training of new employees.
• Adheres to and enforces safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.
• Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.
• Understands and executes warehouse inventory transactions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:        

Directly supervises production employees in accordance with policies and applicable laws. Plans, assigns and directs the work of dough prep employees. Trains as applicable and assesses training results and performance of employees. Addresses employee complaints and resolves problems. Coaches, counsels and administers discipline as necessary. Assists in the hiring process of dough prep employees as needed.                                             

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/ or Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED;
• Associate’s Degree (A.A.) from two-year college or technical school;
• Three to five years’ related experience and/or training; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in baking or manufacturing industry.
• Experience with operating forklift and pallet jack.
• Ability to successfully pass Food Safety HACCP training and competency test.

Leadership Skills:

Ability to influence and motivate others to embrace initiatives and pursue organizational development.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees. Ability to build strong, trusting business relationships through listening, supporting and teaming

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all unites of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to cope with change.
• Ability to identify and prioritize issues, generate solutions and use relevant information to drive decisions.

Physical Demands:

Ability to stand for several hours at a time. Ability to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and smell. Ability to walk, sit; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Ability to frequently lift and /or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

Working Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The temperature in the production area may be affected by outside temperatures. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.