Production Operations Manager

Production Operations Manager

Albany, NY | $100,000–$110,000 annually | Full-Time | Fully Onsite

We are hiring an experienced Production Operations Manager to lead supervisors and production employees within a fast-paced food manufacturing facility. You will oversee daily production, staffing, safety, quality, costs, and continuous-improvement efforts while ensuring customer orders are completed accurately and on time.

What You’ll Do

• Lead production supervisors and hourly employees.
• Coordinate staffing and production schedules.
• Monitor safety, quality, efficiency, downtime, waste, and costs.
• Ensure customer orders meet production and delivery requirements.
• Develop and maintain SOPs and work instructions.
• Identify operational problems and implement corrective actions.
• Enforce GMP, sanitation, food-safety, and workplace-safety requirements.
• Prepare the facility for regulatory inspections.
• Monitor production supplies and equipment inventory.
• Lead shift meetings and communicate operational priorities.
• Recruit, train, coach, schedule, and evaluate employees.
• Address performance concerns and employee-relations matters.
• Prepare production reports for plant leadership.
• Provide backup support to the Plant Manager.

What We’re Looking For

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Degree in manufacturing, operations, business, engineering, food science, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of manufacturing experience.
• Previous production supervisory or management experience.
• Food, beverage, dairy, or regulated manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Experience managing supervisors and hourly production employees.
• Knowledge of GMP, food safety, sanitation, quality, and safety requirements.
• Understanding of production scheduling, process flow, labor planning, inventory, and cost control.
• Experience with SOPs and continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and manufacturing systems.

• Ability to read, write, and speak English to communicate production, quality, and safety requirements.

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