Production Manager

Looking for a Career for Good?

Puratos is a global purpose-driven company focused on bringing people together through food innovation for good. We offer a full range of innovative food ingredients and services for the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate sectors, serving artisans, retailers, industrial and food service companies in over 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical. 

We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, designed to promote a Happier, Healthier You.  This includes:

• Insurance coverage beginning the first of the month—no extra waiting period to get started
• Immediate 401(k) eligibility including a fully vested matching contribution
• Receive over 5 weeks total of paid time off within your first year of service
• Free life coaches, convenient onsite health exams, 24/7 access to Registered Nurses
• Puratos-paid insurance coverage to protect you and your family including Life and Disability insurance

If you are a solution oriented and analytical thinker with a passion for leading and inspiring people, we invite you to experience the magic of being yourself and join us for “a career for good.”

 

Position Overview

The Production Manager is a member of the Operations leadership team and is responsible for
establishing the direction and providing the leadership for the Production Department.
This individual will be responsible for delivering a strong and robust Manufacturing Excellence Program
through Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM), Total Quality Management (TQM), and Lean-Six Sigma
manufacturing philosophy to ensure a balanced delivery against the strategic Quality, Cost, Delivery,
Environmental-Health-Safety, and People pillars.

Primary Responsibilities

• Food safety is a key accountability for this position. The Production Manager will report all food safety
and quality issues to the immediate Supervisor and/or head of Quality and take immediate action as
appropriate within the team as defined by Quality procedures.
• Maintains a safe and clean work environment to be audit-ready at all times by educating and directing
personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with
established policies and procedures, and developing timely corrective actions for all non-compliant
situations
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of production personnel: provide feedback, set goals,
perform coaching or counseling, hold direct reports accountable, create development plans and
record-keeping of attendance points, paid time off, training, etc.
• Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing
control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing
cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions
within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between
departments.
• Communicates and coordinates between the different departments (quality, R&D, warehouse,
maintenance, and production).

• Production Manager works with Operations, R&D, QA/QC, Procurement, and Planning colleagues to
ensure an optimal schedule and then safe, efficient, timely delivery of the schedule.
• Ensures production meets or exceeds quality standards by adhering, but not limited to SOPs, FDA,
HACCP, GMP, and OSHA regulations.
• Monitor operating specifications of each workstation. Respond to and troubleshoot abnormalities in
daily operations.
• Manage the production budget, monitor production expenses, and estimate costs and budgets.
• Determine the number of necessary resources: workforce, production supplies, raw materials,
packaging, etc.
• Create maintenance work requests. Prioritize work orders together in collaboration with
maintenance. Prioritize and assist in defining maintenance requirements including spare parts,
preventative maintenance, and work instructions.
• Regularly lead employee meetings for business updates, safety, quality, cost, and customer service
performance and priorities with all production employees
• Monitor employees' work performance and attitude and perform formal reviews as required by
policy. You are responsible for the performance reviews of your direct reports
• Drive and empower employee engagement, training, and development to maximize safety, quality,
and productivity.
• Troubleshoot to identify and assist in develo