Asst Production Manager - Food Technologist

Colombian Brew Coffee; Pune District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Colombian Brew Coffee is seeking an Assistant Production Manager Food Technologist to lead and optimize production activities on the shop floor, ensuring schedules are met and quality is maintained.

The role requires strong leadership, planning, and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on GMP, HACCP, and FSSAI compliance across production, quality, and logistics interfaces.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of relevant manufacturing experience and team-management responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of production planning, quality systems, process improvement and food safety.
• Proven ability to manage shop-floor teams and deliver production targets.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and implement daily, weekly and monthly production plans.
• Plan manpower, machines and materials to achieve output and dispatch targets.
• Lead shop-floor teams and ensure smooth, uninterrupted production.
• Coordinate with Quality, R&D, Procurement, Warehouse, Maintenance and Dispatch teams.
• Review hourly production performance and resolve operational bottlenecks.
• Ensure products comply with approved formulations, specifications and SOPs.
• Oversee in-process quality checks, batch consistency and packaging quality.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, HACCP, hygiene, food-safety and FSSAI requirements.
• Investigate deviations, rejections and customer complaints.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions and support audits.
• Improve production efficiency, capacity utilisation and product yield.
• Control wastage, rework, rejection, downtime and material consumption.
• Train, supervise and evaluate production executives, operators and helpers.
• Maintain accurate production, quality and performance reports.
• Support new-product trials, process standardisation and commercial scale-up.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

B.Tech/M.Tech in Food Technology; Food Science

Job description

Assistant Production Manager Food Technologist

Key Responsibilities

Production Management

• Prepare and implement daily, weekly and monthly production plans.
• Plan manpower, machines and materials to achieve output and dispatch targets.
• Lead shop-floor teams and ensure smooth, uninterrupted production.
• Coordinate with Quality, R&D, Procurement, Warehouse, Maintenance and Dispatch teams.
• Review hourly production performance and resolve operational bottlenecks.

Quality & Food Safety

• Ensure products comply with approved formulations, specifications and SOPs.
• Oversee in-process quality checks, batch consistency and packaging quality.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, HACCP, hygiene, food-safety and FSSAI requirements.
• Investigate deviations, rejections and customer complaints.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions and support audits.

Productivity & Team Leadership

• Improve production efficiency, capacity utilisation and product yield.
• Control wastage, rework, rejection, downtime and material consumption.
• Train, supervise and evaluate production executives, operators and helpers.
• Maintain accurate production, quality and performance reports.
• Support new-product trials, process standardisation and commercial scale-up.

Candidate Profile

• B.Tech/M.Tech in Food Technology, Food Science or a related discipline.
• 4–7 years of relevant manufacturing experience, including team-management responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of production planning, quality systems, process improvement and food safety.
• Proven ability to manage shop-floor teams and consistently deliver production targets.
• Strong leadership, analytical and problem-solving abilities.