Bakery Manager - Military veterans preferred

Are you ‘bread’ for success?

Come make $ dough $ with us!

• Competitive Wages
• Growth and Development Opportunities
• Generous Holiday and Vacation
• Comprehensive Healthcare
• Pension and Retirement funds
• Discount Franz Products

Position Summary

The Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing bakery operations, ensuring efficient, high-quality production across all departments. This role involves providing strategic direction and hands-on leadership in Production, Maintenance Engineering, Food Safety, Sanitation, Distribution, Compliance and Administration. The Operations Manager will enforce policies, procedures and processes that maximize safety, efficiency, and quality in the facility.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Safety Leadership: Lead ongoing commitment to workplace safety ensuring compliance, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Visionary Leadership: Inspire and motivate teams to achieve high performance and foster a culture of trust, engagement, innovation and excellence.
• Strategic Thinking: Develop and implement strategies that enhance operational efficiencies and support long-term business objectives.
• Goals: Drives operational excellence by setting, aligning and managing bakery SMART Goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound).
• Problem Solving: Exhibits the ability to solve complex challenges and make informed decisions.
• Team Development: Mentor and develop department leaders and promote professional growth and succession planning.
• Effective Communication: Maintain open and transparent communication channels across all levels of the organization.
• Core Values: Support and adherence to Company’s core values: Safety, Quality, Attitude, Passion and Teamwork

Preferred Education/Experience

• 5+ years of experience that demonstrates increasing responsibility, leadership and subject matter expertise, preferably in a food manufacturing facility.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
• Experience in commercial bakeries or in food manufacturing is ideal
• Experience in leading teams in a unionized manufacturing environment is highly desirable.
• Proven track record of cultivating a strong safety culture.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate across all levels of the organization.

Critical Skills and Expertise

• Strong management and leadership skills that drive continued improvements.
• Experience leading and motivating teams to perform in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with particular emphasis on solving and coaching others in conflicts.
• Excellent practical business acumen with the ability to proactively sense and solve complex bakery production issues.
• Proficient in Microsoft office suite (Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Solid analytical skills and ability to develop, translate and drive data-based decisions of company financials.
• Experience in developing large budgets, forecasting and demonstrates prudent fiscal responsibility.
• Uphold and integrate Company’s Core Values
• Other duties as assigned.

Travel: N/A

Decision Making and Impact:

This position description represents an outline of major job responsibilities and is not intended to act as a comprehensive task list. The nature of jobs is such that they change over time; therefore, management reserves the right to add to or change the duties of this position as deemed necessary. This document is intended to act as a management reference document for such purposes in which it may prove useful and to assist in communicating general information about the position of current and prospective employees.

Job Location/Working Conditions/Equipment

Office Environment

X Bakery/Warehouse Depot

Customer Sites

Driving

Exposure to chemicals

X Exposure to varying degrees of noise

X Exposure to varying temperatures

X On-Call

X Exposure to dust, dirt, grease or other elements

X Exposure to moving machinery

Physical Requirements

X Frequent sitting

X Frequent standing or walking

Frequent driving

Frequent driving of forklift

Frequent bending, crouching, stooping, reaching

Frequent use of wrist, hand or fingers

Using tools requiring high dexterity

Frequent lifting (lbs.)

Occasional lifting (lbs.)

Equipment

X Office equipment: computers, cash register, etc.

X Simple hand tools

X Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Vehicle

Heavy equipment (forklift, etc...)

X Production equipment

Central California Baking Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity