Food Production Operations Lead - On-Site San Jose

LSG Sky Chefs group; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LSG Sky Chefs is seeking an Operations Manager in San Jose to lead the Cold Food Department, guiding frontline production teams to deliver safe, high-quality meals for airline customers.

The role emphasizes leadership, adherence to FDA/HACCP standards, continuous improvement, cost discipline, and collaboration across departments to meet daily production goals and customer requirements.

Join a fast-paced, team-driven environment where your leadership drives performance and safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• 3-5 years of food production experience in a supervisory or management role required.
• 1-3+ years of experience working in a food production or manufacturing environment.
• Experience in using and managing Variable Production Systems and schedules.
• Strong presentation, communication, training and interpersonal skills.
• Proven success in improving work processes and leading change in a complex, fast environment.
• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
• Demonstrable record of understanding and meeting customer expectations.
• Proven track record of understanding the drivers of product and labor cost variances.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows-based computer application.

Responsibilities

• Strategically plan, organize, and manage a department with regards to daily hours, schedules, productivity, quality and safety.
• Responsible for department costs to budget through effective manpower planning, scheduling and overtime usage.
• Ensure compliance with customer specifications, quality standards, FDA, HACCP, safety, health, environmental and other regulations.
• Ensure on-time and accurate production in the preparation of food/equipment and catering of flights.
• Investigate customer quality issues, develop and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain an ongoing, positive and pro-active relationship with all internal and external customers.
• Attend the daily operations briefing.
• Provide data for the development of an annual business plan and budgeting for the department.
• Ensure optimal deployment of human, technical and material resources in the department.
• Initiate and control continuous optimization of processes.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Conceptual thinking

Leadership

Training

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

LSG Sky Chefs is seeking an Operations Manager in San Jose to lead the Cold Food Department, guiding frontline production teams to deliver safe, high-quality meals for airline customers.

The role emphasizes leadership, adherence to FDA/HACCP standards, continuous improvement, cost discipline, and collaboration across departments to meet daily production goals and customer requirements.

Join a fast-paced, team-driven environment where your leadership drives performance and safety.