Job Description

Title: Production Manager, 2nd shift, 2nd Shift Req ID: 9103

City, State: Wells, MN

Reports to: Plant Manager

Classification: Exempt

Salary: The anticipated starting annual salary range for this role is $74k, and up to $93k, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and applicable experience.

Benefits: Brakebush provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), an annual bonus, a 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions, and tuition reimbursement programs. Employees earn Paid Time Off and enjoy 10 paid holidays, totaling over 20 days off over the course of a full calendar year. For further details, please visit www.careers.brakebush.com

The production Manager will effectively utilize team members, work with other departments, and communicate between shifts, to attain facility productivity and quality goals. Implements and Drives the LEAN mentality and vision.

Essential Functions:

• Empowers production team members to meet and exceed operational and quality standards.
• Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP, and SQF.
• Mentor and motivate team members, providing training and development to optimize their performance and personal growth. Communicates performance standards to team members, recognizing and rewarding individual and team accomplishments and counseling performance problems. Ensures all team members have the resources and capabilities to effectively accomplish their responsibilities.
• Participates in regular meetings with plant management to discuss production improvements. Facilitates problem resolutions related to production issues.

Required Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of supervisory experience in a food-processing organization, preferably using computerized manufacturing equipment. Further processing experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of USDA regulations, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s), and HACCP.
• Demonstrated mechanical and special aptitude, including the ability to disassemble and reassemble equipment and the ability to formulate and understand complex mathematical equations.
• Working knowledge of safety, OSHA standards, product quality success rates, throughput delivery and cost control (minimizing downtime and waste, optimizing yield).
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Prior experience in a poultry facility
• Prior experience with SAP, Safetychain, and/or Infinity
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Competent in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Outlook
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will supervise the production team on their assigned shift.

Work Environment: Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40- degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing at times, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

Position Type: Exempt

Travel: Some travel may be required for trainings and classes

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

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