Production Manager

7 days ago

Waterloo, Canada Pierogi House Full time

**About us**:
Pierogi House is a growing food brand, hand making pierogies for our restaurants and wholesale customers. In 2015, Jacek opened the first Pierogi House restaurant in Kitchener. Today the brand does a few things: (1) operates a centralized production kitchen, (2) runs two pierogi house quick shousee restaurants, (3) partners with a network of ghost kitchens, and (4) produces retail and wholesale frozen pierogi products for grocers.

**Why work with us**:
Do you like startups? Does ambiguity and open possibility excite you? Pierogi House is a fast-growing brand, that just raised financing. If you’ve tried our handmade pierogi, you know, they are on another level - think of what the smash burger did to burgers We are a fun group of passionate foodies, who have the best job in the world, making and selling pierogies

Reporting to the COO, the Production Manager will oversee and be responsible for the effective, efficient and safe operations of our pierogi production. The successful incumbent will also support and participate with the Management Team to focus on continuously improving processes and efficiencies within the operation.

Production takes place 7am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Our production team is currently comprised of 7 staff members.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Responsible for the overall effectiveness of the kitchen operations; this is a ‘hands-on’ position that directly supervises all shift staff, including training, planning workloads, and developing production schedules
- Responsible for authorizing and monitoring employees' time and attendance
- Work with COO/CEO to plan weekly pierogi production/supply
- Responsible for ordering ingredients and managing raw input inventory; as well as logging incoming ingredients and costs
- Enter/validate daily production metrics into Pierogi House system
- Execute and test process tweaks to increase efficiency - current backlog of possible process efficiencies that have been identified
- Audit the team’s execution of all health and safety protocols, to uphold HAACP standards
- Own and execute other projects as the business grows

**Qualifications & Competencies**:

- Minimum five (5) years of experience in a HACCP regulated consumer packaged goods manufacturing environment is required. Food industry preferred.
- Minimum three (3) years of hands-on supervisory experience is required.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Solid analytical skills with knowledge of process improvement techniques
- Strong computer skills, including Windows and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

**Physical Demands**:

- Standing and walking for extended length of time
- Some lifting will be required for moving inventory and ingredients

**Salary**: $62,000.00-$82,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

- Bonus pay

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
- Paid time off

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- management: 2 years (required)
- food production: 1 year (required)

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