Production Manager

About Us

T. Marzetti Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corporation (NASDAQ: LANC), is a manufacturer and marketer of specialty food products for the retail and foodservice markets. Our retail brands include Marzetti, New York Bakery and Sister Schubert's, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden dressings, Chick-fil-A sauces and Buffalo Wild Wings sauces. Our foodservice business supplies many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

Overview

The Production Manager oversees all production schedules and activities while maintaining safety, quality, and cost standards. This role will focus on team engagement and development to drive operational excellence across all shifts in processing and packaging.

Responsibilities

• Directly manages processing and packaging supervisors on all shifts.

• Responsible for meeting established objectives pertaining to production department and controls and minimizes the shift's overtime labor costs, maintenance/repair costs, and equipment downtime.

• Works with HR for hiring, training, and scheduling of work force.

• Coordinates with other department managers to ensure proper purchasing, processing, packaging, accounting and inventory control activities and procedures are in place and being followed.

• Responsible for ensuring optimum scheduling is in place to meet plant KPI's.

• Use modern management techniques to promote team building and to allow decision making at the lowest level.

• Ensures required production reporting is accurate and timely.

• Maintains close working relationship with all departments and responds to deviations from standards immediately.

• Provides training, direction, development, evaluation, coaching and leadership to subordinates.

• Maintains good employee, corporate and community relations.

• Ensures compliance to quality, food safety, 5S, OSHA and HACCP support programs; assures conformity to all company, customer, and government standards.

• Strive to be a safety solutions leader by maintaining the 200% for safety mindset.

• Participates in engagement activities, complete required safety training and aid in identifying hazards within the facility utilizing BBS and Safety Monitor programs.

• Participates in activities related to Marzetti Operational Excellence

• Ensures a disciplined and safe work environment.

• Reviews budgets for production departments.

• Performs other duties / responsibilities as required by Management.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years Management experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in a food-related industry.

• Working knowledge of scheduling, budgets, ERP systems, and production processes.

• Bi-lingual

• Bachelor's or associate degree in a related field preferred; high school diploma, GED or equivalent required.

• Demonstrated process improvement experience specifically in driving up OEE

• Demonstrated multi shift leadership experience with groups of over 100 people

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Competencies

• Time Management

• Building Relationships

• Dealing with Ambiguity

• Command Skills

• Conflict Management

• Timely Decision Making

• Integrity and Trust

• Written and Verbal Communications

Working Conditions/Environment

Works in a manufacturing environment where the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend and occasionally lift while moving about the facility. The employee is regularly exposed to fumes, odors, dust, oil, slippery floors and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the plant is loud. Earplugs, safety glasses, hairnets, beardnets (if facial hair exists) and steel toed / slip-resistant shoes are required in the plant in accordance with company GMP and safety standards.

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Lancaster Colony Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary T. Marzetti Company are committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our goal to provide opportunities that nourish the growth of each individual team member.