Mobile Production Manager

Sojo Industries is a rapidly expanding industrial automation leader, providing advanced packaging and assembly solutions to the food and beverage sector. We specialize in robotics, mobility, and modularity, operating state-of-the-art, SQF-compliant facilities. Our patented Sojo Flight™ technology brings automated, robotic manufacturing directly to customer sites, transforming traditional production models. Sojo currently operates four (4) manufacturing facilities across America in the metropolitan areas of Philadelphia, PA; Indianapolis, IN; Austin, TX; and Riverside, CA.

Sojo Flight™ is a patented, mobile, modular production system designed to revolutionize variety and multi-pack manufacturing. It enables swift deployment and operational readiness within hours, eliminating supply chain bottlenecks and reducing costs. This highly adaptable system brings high-efficiency automation directly to customer facilities, warehouses, or 3PL locations, reducing freight costs and carbon emissions. Leading U.S. beverage producers across America trust Sojo Flight™ to optimize packaging and enhance production flexibility.

Join us to work with cutting-edge automation technology and drive innovation in mobile manufacturing, helping top brands streamline their packaging processes!

The Mobile Production Manager oversees the daily execution of production plans, which includes strategic workforce management; achievement of daily production, safety and quality metrics; and precise inventory control. This role demands strict compliance with GMP and safety standards, and the ability to work flexible shifts across various schedules.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily production, measured by output per day and machine uptime compared to production goals, at highest levels of quality and safety
• Collaborate with Sojo Automation Technicians on routine and ad-hoc maintenance and repair and maximize machine uptime
• Schedule production based on weekly capacity plan; manage the direct relationship with the staffing agency to ensure the required headcount is on site
• Train entire production team on each job function (e.g. dekitting, palletizing, loading, QC Checks, etc..)
• Maintain and track daily labor hours by line associate to support invoice reconciliation to staffing agencies
• Maintain and follow all local site safety and quality related functions including training and supervision of the production team on all local GMPs
• Ensure customers’ finished goods recipes and standard operation procedures are consistently executed
• Ensure that any quality and food safety concerns are timely communicated and addressed with internal and external quality stakeholders
• Embody the ‘customer first’ approach in partnership with internal Customer Operations and Commercial teams and delight our customers with every interaction and finished goods produced
• Liaise with customer on-site management to ensure smooth flow of raw materials and finished goods to/from the Sojo FlightTM production area
• Manage ERP and WMS system related to line production and inventory related functions in WMS,
Ensure seamless Sojo Flight™ breakdown and setup activities at existing and new locations based on engineering and design parameters

Qualifications

• 5 years as a Plant Manager (or equivalent) in the food & beverage or packaging industry preferred
• Experience managing production frontline teams of varying sizes
• Skilled with Microsoft Suite applications for reporting and communication
• Knowledge of safety practices for working with factory equipment
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Possess a sense of urgency and ownership.
• Embraces a continuous improvement mindset.
• Customer centric at their core.
• Mechanical expertise and proficiency with hand tools (plus)
• SQF / PCQI certified (plus)
• Lean Six Sigma experience (plus)
• Electrical troubleshooting experience (plus)
• Forklift certified (plus)
• Proficiency in Spanish (plus)
• Willingness to travel 90%-100% of the time

Physical Demands

• In a typical work setting, people in this job:
• Use one or two hands to grasp, move, or assemble objects
• Stand for long periods of time.
• Kneel, stoop, crouch, bend, stretch, twist or crawl.
• Operate sky jack of up to 22-feet
• Hear sounds and recognize the difference between them.
• See details of objects that are less than a few feet away.
• See differences between colors, shades, and brightness.

90% TRAVEL TO LOCATIONS ACROSS THE U.S. NATIONALLY