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Value Stream Manager

Blommer Chocolate Company
East Greenville, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/5/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/5/2025

We offer HEALTH & DENTAL BENEFITS DAY 1 OF HIRE! Blommer understands that our employees are our biggest assets. With this in mind we offer a generous benefits package, tuition reimbursement, and 10 pounds of free chocolate for your birthday! We are also offering a $1000 sign on bonus for 2nd and 3rd shift operators!

Blommer has been providing delicious, high quality chocolate and cocoa products to customers since 1939. Built as a family business, we are continuing to grow and are looking for motivated and reliable associates to help in our mission of Bringing Chocolate to Life!

Job Purpose:

The Value Stream Manager is responsible for daily operations of assigned value stream with overall responsibility for production and production-related activities. Ensure output of assigned areas meet production schedule, quality standards, and cost objectives.

The Value Stream Manager will coach and mentor Value Stream Supervisors, production supervisors, and overall production team. Collaborate with other functions including Quality, Safety, R&D, maintenance, customer service to ensure organizational goals are met.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Comply with all legislated and relevant laws and regulations for safety and quality including lockout tag out, GMP, HACCP, Allergen and Blommer specific policies and procedures.
  • Set goals with team, evaluate, and communicate status during regular progress reports with management providing ongoing feedback to help develop skill and meet organizational and departmental goals.
  • Conduct regular team meetings, set a positive tone in the area, address conflicts or complaints, review production needs, goals, and seek resolution for issues. Engage staff in problem solving, utilizing process improvement/lean manufacturing tools.
  • Ensure area training completed for new hires, on new or revised SOP procedures, and all compliance policy reviews.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve downtime issues. Work with supervisory team, operators, engineering, maintenance, sanitation to coordinate repair and work orders to minimize downtime and equipment failures.
  • Address any non-conformance including violations of safety, HAACP, GMP, allergens, plant policies. Report out on incident, investigation, and corrective action plans.
  • Establish and monitor performance metrics. Meet with Value Stream Supervisors and leads to review performance against goals.
  • Execute and maintain labor and R&M department budgets year over year.
  • Prepare and maintain operations data including metrics. Report out on production discussing issues that impacted production.
  • Assist in hiring process, interview candidates.
  • Ensure consistent compliance with customer standards, safety/OSHA and quality standards/HACCP and GMP standards
  • Operate within the Blommer core values of respect and care for others

Note: The employer reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position

Skills and Work Experience Requirements:

  • Five (5 ) years’ experience in manufacturing operations and business management, preferably within the food manufacturing industry.
  • Five (5 ) years’ experience in leadership/management role.
  • Five (5 ) years’ experience utilizing CI, lean systems, tools, programs
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent time management skills with ability to meet deadlines
  • Strong safety and quality background
  • Strong Microsoft Office Suite abilities to complete reports and logs
  • Excellent problem-solving skills

Education:

Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience


Blommer Chocolate Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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