Job Summary: Achieve superior self-manufacturing products through high quality, low-cost foods while continuing commitment to the growth, development, and training of our People and continually meeting our commitment to achieve superior service levels.

Essential Functions / Process Responsibilities
Development mode: Requires direct supervision, administers practices, policies; assigned to a team; focuses on day-to-day issues; mentored by Ops Ldr
Management:
- Majority of the time spent using independent judgment making employment-related and business decisions, or effectively recommending such decisions (e.g., product- / dept-related strategies, hiring, promoting, disciplining, suspending, discharging, rewarding, or otherwise engage in resolving Partner-related matters)
- Provides coaching, training, and development
- Administers certification tests
- Seeks out recommendation from appropriate leader on handling critical / complex situations
- Handles day-to-day tactical issues independently with little or no supervision
- Ensures compliance with internal practices and external policies, procedures, guidelines, and governance
- Communicates tactical plans and initiatives to effectively gain partner cooperation
- Provides input on staffing levels and participates in sourcing and interviewing candidates
- Identifies & develops team coordinators
- Processes each work injury
- Administers performance appraisals
- Executes production schedule to ensure on-time delivery in an efficient & effective manner
- Provides detailed shift summaries to other leaders
- Implements plans; prepares / communicates plans to achieve team goals to leader(s)
- Monitors / adjusts labor requirements to balance staffing levels and overtime costs
- Regularly reviews / communicates results with team
- Actively participates in the Hoshin objectives
- Ensures compliance with work instructions, standards, and product specifications

Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree (preferred) or
- 1-3 years of related experience
- High Performance Work Team experience (preferred)
- Successful completion of company-sponsored training and development classes
- Participation in Leadership training and BET

Preferred Key Competencies
- Working knowledge related to compliance requirements of industry, EEOC, and employment laws
- Strong verbal / written communication and presentation skills
- Strong skills in operating internal / external software, systems
- Analytical skills
- Influencing skills (people and process)
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and shift focus between projects / tasks; attention to detail

Physical and Other Requirements
- Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
- Work extended hours and rotating schedules
- Ambient temperatures range from -20F to 100+F; most often they are 65-85F

06-2012