District Production Manager

Paris Baguette - Cafés (East); New Brunswick (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Free Cake for your Birthday

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401K Retirement Plan

Paid time off

High Performance Culture

Job summary

Paris Baguette - Cafés (East) is seeking a District Production Manager to oversee sanitation, packaging displays, and quality across stores. You will mentor staff, ensure high product standards, and lead efforts to deliver bakery café offerings with excellence.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in bakery/café, strong leadership, GMP/HACCP knowledge, and a passion for empowering teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial setting.

Qualifications

• Educational background in confectionery or foods with 6+ months culinary training.
• Minimum of 5 years bakery/café experience.
• Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, ISO 9000 and baking regulations.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervise regional store staff and operations.
• Recruit and hire staff for open positions.
• Plan, direct, and manage production staff schedules.
• Train employees on quality, sanitation and baking techniques.
• Monitor sanitation standards and health inspections.
• Prepare reports on new product launches and costing.

Skills

Leadership

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

Communication

Teamwork

Empathy

Education

Culinary school training

Job description

Reports to: Director of Food Production

With a projected 1,000 cafes in the United States by 2030, Paris Baguette is one of the fastest-growing neighborhood bakery cafés in the world. Our vision is to reestablish the neighborhood bakery café as the heart of the community around the world. Paris Baguette’s mission is to bring expertly crafted baked and brewed goods through a warm and welcoming bakery café experience that delivers joy to everyone.

If you are someone who has heart, wants to spread joy, nourish community and is ready to rise to the occasion, we are looking for you to join our growing team!

WHAT WE ARE HUNGRY FOR

The District Production Manager is responsible for managing sanitation, monitoring packaging and all displays to ensure the best quality products are delivered to our customers. Under this role, you will keep the store’s sanitation, displays and quality at the highest level. This candidate will be a key leader who focuses on educating and mentoring employees effectively to ensure customer satisfaction when they buy product from Paris Baguette. The ideal candidate will have a deep knowledge of food producing techniques, sanitation, and quality assurance to help achieve our mission to bring expertly crafted baked and brewed goods to our guests through a warm and welcoming bakery café experience.

KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervise the entire store staffs in a region
• Recruit and hire staff for any open position at stores
• Plan, direct, and manage time and schedule of production staffs of stores
• Train and educate employees on the importance of quality, sanitation and food producing techniques to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Set purchasing planning
• Check and improve the process and facility
• Evaluate sanitary compliance by individual staff in factory/store
• Evaluate sanitary level in factory/store
• Check the local sanitation related law and regulation, and reflect this to the business rules/process
• Monitor the Health Inspection standards compliance
• Oversees and find the content unsuitable for the store sanitation
• Establishment of joint measures to improve the sanitary level with production field manager
• Assess the sanitary improvement activities and feedback
• Evaluate the quality of products produced in stores
• Improvements training
• Prepare a report on new product launching
• New product related training
• Periodical reports to the production team leader on a daily/weekly basis (staff/product/work activities, etc.)
• Report products for defects
• Calculate and report the product cost
• Manage and report personnel expenses of production specialists
• Other duties may be assigned

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE

• Educational background as a Confectionery/Foods major (over 6 months courses in Culinary School).
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience (Bakery/Café experience preferred)
• Knowledge on food producing processes, sanitation, and quality programs
• Knowledge on food producing techniques, food microbiology, and food sanitary safety practice and procedures
• Food Manufacturing Practices (GMP), HACCP Principles, ISO 9000, and baking related regulatory knowledge
• Skills in root cause analysis, problem solving, ability in applying technical principles to project management
• Passion for people! Dynamic and engaged leader who has a passion for empowering, inspiring, motivating & developing team members.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills with the ability to effectively balance priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and highly entrepreneurial environment.
• Feedback is a gift! Ability to provide constructive feedback and recognition to every member of the organization, to ensure we have an open and transparent culture of high performance standards.
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to work with, and manage diverse teams by being highly empathetic, intuitive, self-motivated and driven.
• Teams Win! Has to be a team player who fosters a collaborative and engaged teamwork environment.
• Being a Brand Ambassador, with an excellent knowledge of and commitment to Paris Baguette’s Mission, Vision, Brand Values and Culture.
• Love of travel! Ability to commute to all current Corporate and Franchise locations, as well as proposed openings.

SWEET BENEFITS

• Competitive compensation
• Free Cake for your Birthday
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Paid time off, paid Holidays
• High Performance Culture