About Valley
Valley Cooperative Association (VCA) is a member-owned Cooperative focused on providing the finest baking & brewing ingredients, supplies, and business services. VCA maximizes success through customized and highly responsive service, and delivery of food ingredients, products, and packaging.
Valley was recognized as Vendor of the Year by the Wisconsin Bakers Association in 2023 for our many contributions as a proactive industry partner.

Job Summary
The Production Manager has the responsibility for directing the production cake room. Supporting the team, overall business objectives, and managing all aspects of daily production.
Position Responsibilities

• Develop key manufacturing plans and programs toward budgeted unit cost and output objectives.
• Coordinate activities of all manufacturing functional areas to assure continuity towards plant goals, communicating priorities as necessary.
• Develop and track annual operating budget for measurement towards objectives.
• Maintain and improve the quality of the plant assets, both current and fixed. Develop plans and execute the capital improvement program to maintain/improve existing assets, to improve operating efficiencies.
• Recruit, develop, coach, lead and motivate personnel,
• Lead safety and regulatory programs to assure long-term safe operation of the facility.
• Establish appropriate scheduling and employee work schedules in line with customer orders and plant performance requirements.
• Work with Purchasing to establish quality specifications for incoming raw materials, monitoring these raw materials to ensure that specifications are met. Work to maintain lowest possible costs of ingredients.
• Develop new products/processes and improve current products/processes. Establish procedures and supervise all experimental and test runs, reporting all results.

Qualifications

• Ability to work overtime
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of diverse individuals within the plant.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating instructions, formulas, and policy and procedures manuals.
• Ability to write standard information into related paperwork.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure including but not limited to pounds, ounces, grams, using whole numbers, common fractions, decimals, and temperatures.
• Ability to thrive in a constantly changing environment.
• 2 years previous leadership experience in a food manufacturing operation preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, conflict management, and presentation skills.
• Excellent knowledge of plant operation procedures and business system software applications.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills

Valley Cooperative Association is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any of these characteristics. We encourage individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and join our team, as we believe that diversity enriches our work environment and drives innovation.