Company: Kality Foods S.C
Job Overview
The Production Manager in a biscuit and cookie factory oversees daily plant operations, ensures strict product quality and food safety standards, manages a multi-shift workforce, and meets production targets efficiently while minimizing material waste and controlling operational costs.
Detailed Key Responsibilities
1. Production Planning & Execution
- Master Scheduling: Translate sales forecasts into actionable daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules.
- Line Balancing: Allocate raw ingredients, machinery, and labor across different processing to prevent bottlenecks.
- Capacity Utilization: Monitor and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to maximize throughput and capacity.
- Inventory Coordination: Partner with procurement to ensure a steady supply of flour, sugar, fats, and packaging materials without overstocking.
- Changeover Management: Minimize downtime during product switches
2. Food Safety, Quality Control & Compliance
- Regulatory Standard Compliance: Enforce strict adherence to global food safety standards like HACCP, SQF, BRC, or FSSC 22000.
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP): Audit the factory floor daily to guarantee impeccable hygiene, allergen control, and sanitation.
- Traceability Protocols: Oversee batch coding and tracking systems to ensure instant traceability of raw ingredients and finished lots.
- Defect Minimization: Colaborate with Quality Assurance (QA) to monitor baking parameters like moisture levels, color, and thickness.
- Waste Mitigation: Identify root causes of product defects (e.g., burnt batches, broken cookies) and implement swift corrective actions
3. Team Leadership & Workforce Management
- Staff Scheduling: Manage shift rotations, overtime, and seasonal labor requirements for a 24/7 or multi-shift operation.
- Skill Development: Design and execute training programs for operators.
- Performance Evaluations: Set clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for shift supervisors and conduct regular objective reviews.
- Conflict Resolution: Foster a collaborative, high-morale work culture and address labor or disciplinary issues promptly.
- Succession Planning: Identify high-performing floor workers and mentor them for future leadership roles.
4. Maintenance & Engineering Coordination
- Preventative Maintenance: Schedule routine servicing for mixers, laminators, continuous band ovens, cooling conveyors, and flow-wrappers.
- Breakdown Resolution: Coordinate with the engineering team for rapid-response troubleshooting during unexpected mechanical or electrical failures.
- Capital Expenditure (CapEx): Assist in evaluating, testing, and commissioning new automated baking or packaging machinery.
- Facility Sanitation: Oversee Clean-In-Place (CIP) processes and deep-cleaning schedules for baking bands and molders.
5. Cost Control & Process Optimization
- Budget Oversight: Manage the manufacturing department's operational budget, tracking labor costs, energy use, and material yield.
- Lean Manufacturing: Apply Continuous Improvement methods like 5S, Six Sigma, or Kaizen to eliminate waste on the production floor.
- Energy Management: Optimize oven heating profiles and cooling systems to reduce gas and electricity consumption.
- Yield Optimization: Track dough-to-finished-product giveaway metrics to ensure recipes are executed with maximum financial efficiency.
6. Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
- Hazard Identification: Conduct regular risk assessments to eliminate floor hazards, such as slick surfaces or unguarded machinery.
- PPE Enforcement: Ensure 100% compliance with personal protective equipment, including hairnets, steel-toe boots, and hearing protection.
- Incident Reporting: Investigate any workplace accidents, document root causes, and implement immediate safety revisions.
Requirements & Qualifications
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum 8 years of manufacturing experience, with at least 3 years in a food production or industrial bakery leadership role.
- Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of automated baking lines, industrial mixing, continuous band ovens, and packaging systems.
- Soft Skills: Strong leadership, sharp analytical problem-solving abilities, and high-level time management skills.
Required Skills
• Development-oriented
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit their application letter, updated CV, and credentials up to September 10/2026 either in person or via email using the address provided below.
Address:
Kaliti Food S.C. around Kaliti St. Gebreal Church. Email: D.hr_admin@cerealiabiscuits.com
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