Plant Manager

TDP Bakery; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 74,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bakery in Chandler, AZ, is seeking a General Manager to oversee operations and ensure quality standards. The role involves leading a team of 90, managing production, and fostering a positive work culture. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in manufacturing and a results-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years experience in consumer products environment.
• 2 years of site or large manufacturing department leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee bakery operations ensuring quality and safety standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across functional teams.
• Implement lean manufacturing tools and track performance metrics.

Skills

Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Problem Solving

Education

BS/BA in Engineering

Job description

TDP Bakery is an established company that manufactures and self-distributes to thousands of locations nightly. This formerly small family business has expanded rapidly over the past five years but still maintains the benefits of a close-knit culture and entrepreneurial spirit. Our combined bakeries manufacture millions of fresh bakery items every week, and our distribution teams drive enough miles each day to circle the earth to ensure that our consumers can enjoy something truly fresh.

We are currently seeking a General Manager for our Arizona bakery who will continue to enhance the culture and integrity of our company throughout this exciting expansion journey.

Job Description:

Title: Bakery General Manager

· Reports to “Chief Operations Officer”

· Partners with: Site Production Managers, Distribution Manager, Quality, Safety, Product Development, Administration, and Remote Corporate Support (Quality/Safety/Engineering/HR).

Scope: The General Manager is responsible for leading a stand-alone commercial Bakery's people, culture and productivity. The General Manager is responsible for ensuring their team manufactures fresh baked goods to customer demand and consumer quality standards, while actively managing risk and achieving performance objectives. The General Manager will be charged with effectively executing the company’s business plan and partnering very closely with the distribution leadership team in service of the region.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• The General Manager will have full oversight of the bakery, ensuring we are meeting the needs of our customers while adhering to our values and standards for quality and food safety with a team of ~90 people
• Facilitates growth via excellent service and care for existing customers/consumers and partners in innovation and customer expansion.
• Builds a stable and positive work environment and workforce that is conducive to food manufacturing and ongoing growth
• Directs, develops, and executes the operating model, ensuring appropriate processes are in place for training, oversight, and adherence to formula/process & quality specifications
• Conducts end-to-end operational assessment of current state vs. needs, prioritizes opportunities, and ensures adequate plans to achieve targets
• Implement lean manufacturing tools, including standard work (leader and team member) visual management that tracks operations' key performance indicators, including quality, service, safety, cost, and problem-solving tools.
• Creates a balanced scorecard of metrics to measure, analyze, and monitor performance and establishes appropriate review/response from such measures
• Builds and maintains strong relationships across functional teams and leverages them to ensure a consistent, safe, and wholesome product
• Partners with supporting leadership team to ensure common purpose and shared accountability in driving continuous improvement across the company
• Ensures best practices and policies related to GMPs, sanitation, and environmental controls are strictly adhered to
• Develops and manages continuous improvement/cost savings pipeline to support overall competitiveness
• Actively oversees overall facility conditions to ensure a safe & sanitary environment
• Oversee transition to SQF from AIB in a calendar year.

Who we are looking for:

• Manufacturing background to support a mix of highly automated and manual operations
• Experience managing multiple supply chain disciplines, e.g. quality and operations
• Servant style leader and coach. Motivator. Culture builder
• Ability to partner across functions in driving growth and improving systems, while still maintaining the ability to roll up her/his sleeves to ‘act alone’ in a young and rapidly growing company
• Effective administrator who can move between daily operational support, projects, and planning activities to ensure business needs are met in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
• Results-oriented mindset with grit and a bias for action

Specialized or Technical Knowledge:

• Continuous improvement practitioner experience
• Audit experience with regulatory bodies (FDA/USDA), consumer audits and third-party audits (SQF/AIB) preferred
• Minimum 7 years experience within a consumer products (CPG) environment and 2 years of site or large manufacturing department leadership experience required
• BS/BA in engineering, scientific discipline, or similar applied field preferred

We look forward to welcoming you to the family!

TDP Bakery is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or any other category protected by law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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