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About the Role
Lead second-shift operations at Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery's New London facility, focusing on developing people, solving problems, and driving operational results. This role provides leadership across production, maintenance, quality assurance, and warehouse operations, ensuring safety, efficiency, and high standards for food safety and product quality.
Responsibilities
- Oversee second-shift production, maintenance, quality assurance, and warehouse activities to meet production schedules and business objectives.
- Coach and support supervisors, provide guidance to employees, and foster an environment for success and growth.
- Reinforce food safety, workplace safety, product quality, and regulatory standards.
- Identify opportunities to increase efficiency, reduce waste, improve processes, and strengthen operational performance.
- Align staffing, materials, equipment, inventory, and production schedules to meet business and customer needs.
- Ensure employees have the necessary training, tools, and resources to perform their jobs safely and effectively.
- Partner with supervisors and plant leadership to address equipment issues, production obstacles, order requirements, and product inconsistencies.
- Coordinate shift handoffs, communicate performance results, and ensure timely follow-up on operational issues and corrective actions.
- Provide constructive feedback, recognize employee contributions, and address performance concerns fairly and consistently in partnership with Human Resources.
- Embody core values of teamwork, integrity, innovation, and excellence through leadership and daily decisions.
Requirements
- Experience leading employees in manufacturing, production, or a similar operational environment.
- Strong knowledge of food or dairy manufacturing; five or more years of related industry experience is preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build productive relationships across departments and levels of the organization.
- Strong planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to balance competing priorities and make effective decisions.
- Experience with production scheduling, staffing, inventory management, equipment utilization, or process improvement.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, and Excel, and the ability to learn enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
- Ability to interpret production schedules, written procedures, specifications, and other operational information.
- A valid driver’s license and willingness to travel occasionally, as needed.
- Employment is contingent upon successfully completing the required background check and drug and alcohol screening.
Skills
- Manufacturing leadership
- People development
- Problem-solving
- Operational performance improvement
- Production oversight
- Maintenance oversight
- Quality assurance oversight
- Warehouse operations oversight
- Food safety standards
- Workplace safety standards
- Product quality standards
- Process improvement
- Staffing coordination
- Inventory management
- Equipment utilization
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Planning skills
- Organizational skills
Location
- New London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Salaried exempt
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5+ years of related industry experience preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $85,000 annually
Benefits
- Affordable medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Benefits eligibility beginning the first of the month following 30 days of employment
- Health Savings Account (HSA), accident, and critical illness coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and additional free resources
- 401k employer match
- Paid time off and holiday pay
- Tuition reimbursement
- Career growth and advancement opportunities
About the Company
- Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is a dairy and food manufacturing facility committed to its Team, Craft & Community since 1910.
- We believe strong teams and high standards go hand in hand.
- We deliver safe, high-quality dairy products to our customers.
Equal Opportunity
- Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is an Equal Opportunity Employer.