1. Direct production activities for three shifts of operations with a staff of four shift supervisors, 140 hourly production and packaging employees. Schedule all production personnel on a weekly basis. Plan, schedule and coordinate manufacturing operations, including training, to ensure products meet quality and safety standards.

2. Develop and implement methods to improve productivity, yield, labor cost, and efficiency within established payroll and expense budgets while maintaining quality.

3. Conduct plant safety program. Ensure compliance and provide a safe, clean working environment within OSHA, state, and local regulations. Execute company programs and develop and implement plant-specific programs to

improve plant wide safety awareness.

4. Administer the terms and conditions of the union labor contract with regard to scheduling, seniority rights, vacations, attendance, work practices, general conduct, and other management policies. Ensure fair and equitable treatment of all employees.

5. Monitor all production reports to ensure adherence to quality standards, optimum use of all direct and indirect department labor hours, optimum use of all ingredient/raw material usages, maximize product processing yield to standards of budget.

6. Interview, hire, train, motivate, discipline, and develop operations supervisors and hourly personnel. Maintain staffing at levels within budget and at full readiness to support the production requirements of the facility.

7. Conduct and attend meetings as necessary in order to keep all plant personnel informed of daily operations. Report to Operations Manager and facility department managers as required to inform on production operations.

8. Develop and propose budgets for production and packaging operations.

9. Monitor and analyze Quality Assurance reports, process control and production reports in order to ensure compliance to standards.

10. Ensure adherence to plant-wide Food Safety Programs. Evaluate and develop BRC-compliant procedures and training programs for all employees. Maintain programs to ensure and continuous improvement in the areas of product safety and sanitation. Review the requirements of programs with other outside inspection services to ensure compliance with all mandated policies, regulations, and standards.