The Production Manager oversees all operations of the food production plant, ensuring work processes are simplified, costs are reduced, and production processes run efficiently. He/She sets key performance indicators (KPI), and develops new food production standards and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
He/She monitors quality assurance, investigates production or quality issues and recommends solutions. He/She must undergo training in internal food safety audits and serves on the organisation's food safety internal audit committee.
He/She works in a food production environment and may be required to work in shifts. He/She is exposed to physically demanding work conditions such as long standing hours and hot or cold temperatures.
- Arrange plant visits and physical inspections by external auditors.
- Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and prepare reports and work instructions.
- Draft capacity plans to evaluate sustainability of new or modified manufacturing processes.
- Establish food production strategies for sustainability.
- Establish production documentations and maintenance.
- Identify and implement yield opportunities and forecast yield targets.
- Implement new or modified production processes for regulatory approval, commissioning and operation.
- Implement test programmes to resolve hardware and major set-up issues in mass production.
- Improve operation planning through the use of big data and advanced analytics modelling.
- Investigate low yield and quality assurance.
- Investigate production or quality issues and recommend solutions.
- Lead key production processes in compliance with budget, schedules, quality control, and cross-departmental coordination.
- Lead working level communities to explore opportunities for improvement projects.
- Manage manpower, equipment, raw materials and ingredient resources to meet production objectives.
- Review regular production performance reports.
- Set food production key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Support product quality and food safety processes to ensure that finished products meet specifications and regulatory standards.
