Plant Operations Coordinator - Temporary (4 month placement)

Bel; Traverse City (MI); On-site; USD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Bel Brands, a long-standing consumer foods company with a strong footprint in the U.S., is seeking a Plant Operations Coordinator for its Traverse City, MI facility on a temporary basis. The role focuses on production planning, MO management, and robust documentation processes to support daily plant operations.

The candidate will help synchronize schedules, maintain KPI reporting, ensure accurate production records, and assist maintenance and QA activities as needed.

Responsibilities

• Create, release, modify, and close Manufacturing Orders (MOs).
• Perform weekend manufacturing order reconciliation and closure.
• Support production scheduling updates.
• Create new manufacturing orders as needed.
• Communicate schedule updates to plant personnel.
• Maintain daily production reporting.
• Review production consumption accuracy.
• Maintain production KPI reporting and plant boards.
• Generate and distribute daily and weekly production reports.
• Build and maintain daily production folders.
• Scan, archive, and maintain production documentation.
• Maintain electronic production records.
• Return completed production documentation for retention.
• Support document control activities.
• Print weekly PM work orders.
• Enter PM completion records.
• Scan and archive completed PM documentation.
• Maintain maintenance documentation files.
• Support pH sample collection as required.
• Perform pH meter verification as required.
• Verify production scales as required.
• Reconcile production inventories.
• Perform weekly dry ingredient physical counts.
• Maintain dry ingredient inventory records.
• Maintain production consumable inventory levels.
• Prepare Zebra labels and production documentation as requested.
• Maintain production administrative supplies.
• Support Production Managers, Supervisors, and Leads.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job description

At Bel, we are not just a company—we are a company on a Mission, built on 160 years of bold innovation, family values, and a commitment to social purpose. With beloved brands like Babybel®, GoGo squeeZ®, The Laughing Cow®, and Boursin®, our snacking solutions bring more than joy; they want to serve as a force for good. Our U.S. Mission? To help close the critical 80% nutrition gap by making it easier for Americans to eat more fruits, veggies, and dairy as part of their daily lives.

#IWorkForAllForGood

The company has headquarters in Chicago and New York City and operates 4 manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI; Brookings, SD; Traverse City, MI; and Nampa, ID.

Plant Operations Coordinator – Temporary | Revised Responsibilities

Production Planning & Manufacturing Orders

• Create, release, modify, and close Manufacturing Orders (MOs).
• Perform weekend manufacturing order reconciliation and closure.
• Support production scheduling updates.
• Create new manufacturing orders as needed.
• Communicate schedule updates to plant personnel.

Production Reporting

• Maintain daily production reporting.
• Review production consumption accuracy.
• Maintain production KPI reporting and plant boards.
• Generate and distribute daily and weekly production reports.

Production Documentation

• Build and maintain daily production folders.
• Scan, archive, and maintain production documentation.
• Maintain electronic production records.
• Return completed production documentation for retention.
• Support document control activities.

Preventive Maintenance Documentation

• Print weekly PM work orders.
• Enter PM completion records.
• Scan and archive completed PM documentation.
• Maintain maintenance documentation files.

Quality & Food Safety Support

• Support pH sample collection as required.
• Perform pH meter verification as required.
• Verify production scales as required.

Physical count & Material Management

• Reconcile production inventories.
• Perform weekly dry ingredient physical counts.
• Maintain dry ingredient inventory records.
• Maintain production consumable inventory levels.

Administrative & Operations Support

• Prepare Zebra labels and production documentation as requested.
• Maintain production administrative supplies.
• Support Production Managers, Supervisors, and Leads.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Bel Brands is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Bel Brands also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Bel Brand’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

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