Manager, Bakery-Production

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

Responsibilities :

• Manage, coach and develop Production Supervisors
• Ensuring MDI protocols are followed (shift huddles / communication boards) across all lines
• FSQA Internal Zone Audits (audit ready at all times)
• Participate and responsible for building zone audit corrective and preventative actions
• Responsible for all incident investigations / follow-ups / corrective actions and support of all H&S initiatives
• Daily / Weekly Loss Tree and waste analysis, follow up on high priority losses
• Participate in building projects, product launches, departmental initiatives
• Participate in weekly maintenance prep meetings and analyze PM WO completion rates
• Ensure systems are in place to monitor all targets and lead development of processes to improve results including continuous improvement.
• Work with the relative departments to evaluate impact of new products and / or projects on the bakery operations and help develop plans to address conflicts
• Work proactively with support teams (maintenance, engineering, sanitation, QA, supply chain, HR, R&D, etc.) to support departmental objectives
• Provide excellent leadership by example from the floor to your team, acting with honesty and integrity, ensuring that the Aspire core values are being promoted at all times.Monitor and review running budget costs results against the planned budget
• Ensure all employees are aware of their responsibilities specific to food safety, legality and quality
• Maintain the required hygiene, safety and quality standards on the production floor
• Additional tasks as the business requires

Qualifications :

Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level

Required

Preferred

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Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.