Production Manager - Day Shift

Do Good Foods

Do Good Foods is creating a more sustainable food system at scale that combats climate change with urgency and action. Founded by the Kamine Family, Do Good Foods uses technologically advanced infrastructure to reduce food waste by collecting grocery surplus that would otherwise go to landfills (after human donations occur), converts it to animal feed, and uses it to create carbon-reduced, delicious food that consumers can purchase at their local supermarket. This closed-loop system delivers an economic and environmental impact that is scaling nationwide. This new way of upcycling surplus grocery food empowers consumers to be a part of the solution to fight food waste and combat climate change with their everyday purchases. Do Good Foods, Good for Plate & Planet™

Position Summary

The Day and Night Shift Production Managers will oversee the safe and efficient operating of DGF’s entire production process for their respective shifts. The job holder is responsible for organizing workflow, shift coverage, and material flow to ensure that daily, weekly, and monthly production targets are achieve or exceeded. Lead, direct and develop 12 supervisors (six each shift) to ensure that Operators are working safely, effectively and are appropriately trained in daily Work Instructions (based on SOPs) to be proficient in the tasks they are being asked to perform, and running the equipment they are being asked to operate. Each Production Manager is required to ensure a thorough and robust handover between shifts, clearly articulating any issues or opportunities that need to be followed through with, along with transitioning a clean and safe work environment for the next shift.

This position will serve as Production head for our first full scale facility (capable of processing 60,000 tons of fresh food per year) for producing a highly nutritious livestock and pet feed ingredient from left over human quality supermarket meats and produce.

Essential Functions

• Effective handover to peer Production Manager between shifts. Ensuring safe, clean and well-organized transition between shifts.
• Oversee all aspects of production on respective shift to ensure daily, weekly, monthly production targets are achieved.
• Sets unwavering standard for culture of safety and collective accountability. Visible model to all plant personnel as standard for safety behaviors for others to follow.
• Partners with other plant leadership to ensure issues are raised and necessary resources are brought to bear to solve issues, seize opportunities and generally make the plant as efficient as possible.
• In partnership with Plant Manager and peer Production Manager responsible for overall workflow and shift coverage to ensure Supervisors and Operators are working effectively
• Responsible to work with Supervisor to ensure effective Work Instructions are developed and given to new hires as part of plant on-boarding process. Ensure periodic training of Work Instructions are updated and understood by workforce.
• Plan, coordinate, ensure accuracy, and monitor all plant Production activities
• This position provides oversight of equipment, employee materials to meet scheduled product requirements while meeting all budgetary targets. (24/7)
• Oversee special projects as assigned, departmental budgets, and assist in the review of all safety, health, and Customer CAPA requirements.
• Accountable for monitoring and ensuring a high standard of quality compliance and food safety.
• Report out on safety statistics (KPIs), trends, issues, safety (have we mentioned safety too much?), training compliance and organizational issues.
• Identify and implement a management operating system for this facility and as a foundational program for future KDC AG plants.
• Responsible for manufacturing preparedness and sanitation effectiveness. (24/7).

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position will have Leadership responsibility for all production activities (24/7). Each Production Manager will have six supervisors reporting directly to them, who each have between three and four operators.
• Job holder is responsible to ensure everyone on his or her team is acutely aware of what they are to be doing, what success looks like and train staff on how to be safe and efficient.

Job Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, chemical, or industrial engineering or related or equivalent related experience
• 7 + years of manufacturing experience in food processing, rendering, or viscus material flow.
• 3+ years of supervisory experience
• Demonstrated ability to work well at all levels of the organization, relating well to operators as well as collaborating with peers to ensure Plant is successful.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – written and verbal
• Proficient computer skills, especially in Microsoft applications (Excel, Power Point, Outlook etc.)
• Working knowledge of food quality requirements (working within specifications), manufacturing information management system (Shop floor data) and all other food safety requirements (i.e., HACCP) by the Food and Drug Administration

Preferred

• Experience in a “Team Management Environment”
• Been a member of Plant start-up Team or turn around.
• Experience in implementing a Management Operating System
• Experience in working together in cross functional teams

Culture – Leadership Traits expected of Job Holder

As a member of the leadership team this person will be a:

• Teacher (educator): one who makes sure that the employee understands and can execute the fundamentals of their jobs, SOPs, plant policies and GMPs. Taking SOPs/Policies and translating them into basic Work Instructions for job holder and supervisors to use to train and develop plant operators.
• Coach: One who sets local goals and holds the employees accountable to those goals (KPIs and other measures, hourly, daily, weekly).
• Mentor (listener): One who receives feedback from the employee (formal, informal, verbal and written) and then helps with advice and direction to align the employees’ feedback with the local goals required. Answers why we are doing the things we do.
• Developer: One who through mentoring and coaching gets the employee to achieve beyond what they (the employee) believed they could do.
• Winner: One who knows when we have won (amongst complexity), when we have won beyond the business metrics (community, personal and local) and then can celebrate.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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