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Career Opportunities: Production Manager BEAR (12909)

Requisition ID 12909 - Posted  - United States - Mebane - Operations

The  Production Manager – BEAR leads our fruit rolls packaging department. This role responsible for leading operations, ensuring a safe workplace, consistent product quality, and the achievement of business objectives.

The Production Manager is responsible for driving a culture of continuous improvement, supporting capacity expansion projects, and enabling future growth initiatives. This role provides direct leadership to supervisors and their teams, fostering engagement, accountability, and operational excellence.

As a key member of the plant leadership team, this role contributes to overall site performance and operational excellence, while supporting strategic initiatives through KPI management, cross-functional collaboration, and occasional domestic and international travel.

Organization and Supervision of the Production Environment

  • Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring a safe, efficient, and high-performing environment.
  • Achieve and exceed production KPIs, including quality, safety, volume, efficiency, and hygiene targets.
  • Implement and enforce standard work instructions to guarantee consistency and compliance across shifts.
  • Proactively identify, propose, and implement improvement initiatives that enhance productivity, reduce waste, and improve employee safety and engagement.
  • Foster a “Safety First, Quality Always” culture, ensuring that end products consistently meet or exceed company standards and consumer expectations.
  • Maintain the cleanliness, condition, and organization of the production environment to meet all internal and external requirements.

 

Leadership, Training, and Workforce Development

 

  • Provide direct leadership to supervisors and their teams, cultivating a motivating and supportive culture that drives engagement and performance.
  • Ensure proper staffing levels, develop workforce capability, and actively participate in the selection and onboarding of new team members (supervisors, leads, production workers).
  • Develop training materials, tools, and documentation to support skills development and operational excellence.
  • Partner with HR to design and deliver training and learning events, while providing feedback on program effectiveness.
  • Actively influence the retention of employees by creating a culture of growth, recognition, and accountability.
  • Oversee and provide guidance for performance-management activities, including semi-annual reviews, annual reviews, coaching, disciplinary actions, and terminations.
  • Develop and execute an annual action plan for the production department and provide ongoing guidance to ensure successful delivery.

 

 

Quality and Compliance

  • Ensure operations comply with FSMA, FDA, and IFS standards.
  • Lead and support traceability exercises to validate quality and compliance readiness.
  • Partner with Quality and Food Safety teams to address deviations, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence.

 

 

Efficiency

  • Maximize production throughput while minimizing downtime and waste, using KPIs to monitor progress.
  • Implement and sustain continuous improvement tools (e.g., SMED, 5S, Root Cause Analysis).
  • Optimize shift planning, labor deployment, and resource allocation to ensure coverage and efficiency.
  • Support automation and digitalization initiatives to drive long-term productivity and modernization.

 

 

Cost & Waste Management

  • Control packaging costs through efficient labor and material management.
  • Monitor material usage and losses, ensuring variances are investigated and addressed.
  • Lead cost-saving initiatives to improve profitability while maintaining product quality.

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Science, Operations Management, or related field.
  • Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in food manufacturing, packaging, or a related process industry.
  • Proven track record of managing large teams in a 24/7 high-volume manufacturing environment.
  • Knowledge of FSMA, FDA, and BRC standards is a plus
  • Demonstrated success in leading continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Spanish speaking is a plus.

 

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

  • Ownership & Accountability – Takes full responsibility for production outcomes, ensuring alignment with plant and company goals.
  • People Leadership – Skilled at developing, coaching, and motivating supervisors and large hourly teams.
  • Continuous Improvement Mindset – Actively challenges the status quo and drives efficiency, quality, and safety improvements.
  • Strategic Agility – Balances day-to-day operational oversight with long-term planning and workforce development.
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The  Production Manager – BEAR leads our fruit rolls packaging department. This role responsible for leading operations, ensuring a safe workplace, consistent product quality, and the achievement of business objectives.

The Production Manager is responsible for driving a culture of continuous improvement, supporting capacity expansion projects, and enabling future growth initiatives. This role provides direct leadership to supervisors and their teams, fostering engagement, accountability, and operational excellence.

As a key member of the plant leadership team, this role contributes to overall site performance and operational excellence, while supporting strategic initiatives through KPI management, cross-functional collaboration, and occasional domestic and international travel.

Organization and Supervision of the Production Environment

  • Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring a safe, efficient, and high-performing environment.
  • Achieve and exceed production KPIs, including quality, safety, volume, efficiency, and hygiene targets.
  • Implement and enforce standard work instructions to guarantee consistency and compliance across shifts.
  • Proactively identify, propose, and implement improvement initiatives that enhance productivity, reduce waste, and improve employee safety and engagement.
  • Foster a “Safety First, Quality Always” culture, ensuring that end products consistently meet or exceed company standards and consumer expectations.
  • Maintain the cleanliness, condition, and organization of the production environment to meet all internal and external requirements.

 

Leadership, Training, and Workforce Development

 

  • Provide direct leadership to supervisors and their teams, cultivating a motivating and supportive culture that drives engagement and performance.
  • Ensure proper staffing levels, develop workforce capability, and actively participate in the selection and onboarding of new team members (supervisors, leads, production workers).
  • Develop training materials, tools, and documentation to support skills development and operational excellence.
  • Partner with HR to design and deliver training and learning events, while providing feedback on program effectiveness.
  • Actively influence the retention of employees by creating a culture of growth, recognition, and accountability.
  • Oversee and provide guidance for performance-management activities, including semi-annual reviews, annual reviews, coaching, disciplinary actions, and terminations.
  • Develop and execute an annual action plan for the production department and provide ongoing guidance to ensure successful delivery.

 

 

Quality and Compliance

  • Ensure operations comply with FSMA, FDA, and IFS standards.
  • Lead and support traceability exercises to validate quality and compliance readiness.
  • Partner with Quality and Food Safety teams to address deviations, implement corrective actions, and prevent recurrence.

 

 

Efficiency

  • Maximize production throughput while minimizing downtime and waste, using KPIs to monitor progress.
  • Implement and sustain continuous improvement tools (e.g., SMED, 5S, Root Cause Analysis).
  • Optimize shift planning, labor deployment, and resource allocation to ensure coverage and efficiency.
  • Support automation and digitalization initiatives to drive long-term productivity and modernization.

 

 

Cost & Waste Management

  • Control packaging costs through efficient labor and material management.
  • Monitor material usage and losses, ensuring variances are investigated and addressed.
  • Lead cost-saving initiatives to improve profitability while maintaining product quality.

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Science, Operations Management, or related field.
  • Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in food manufacturing, packaging, or a related process industry.
  • Proven track record of managing large teams in a 24/7 high-volume manufacturing environment.
  • Knowledge of FSMA, FDA, and BRC standards is a plus
  • Demonstrated success in leading continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Spanish speaking is a plus.

 

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

  • Ownership & Accountability – Takes full responsibility for production outcomes, ensuring alignment with plant and company goals.
  • People Leadership – Skilled at developing, coaching, and motivating supervisors and large hourly teams.
  • Continuous Improvement Mindset – Actively challenges the status quo and drives efficiency, quality, and safety improvements.
  • Strategic Agility – Balances day-to-day operational oversight with long-term planning and workforce development.
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