Production Manager
Current• Make a positive contribution to achieving departmental performance targets for safety, product quality and throughput by operating within specified procedures• Manage 30+ employees in production side.• Oversee implementation of continuous process improvement strategies aimed at improving line efficiency, reducing packaging shrink, reducing wine loss, increase labor utilization, reduce downtime and changeover times and reduce overall labor costs per case.• Ensure correct packaging materials are being used for each bottling run• Assist in developing and implementing an aggressive cross training program to improve overall bench strength for all production lines.• Involve daily communication with Winemaking team, Quality Control, Maintenance, Warehouse and all employees necessary in the operations process.• Monitor production process to insure expected cases and efficiencies are met. Receive and resolve operations problems for production lines• Visually inspect products and or operations to insure quality of products and or work• Safety Awareness, Identify and correct conditions that effect employee safety, uphold safety standards• Follow established programs, policies, and practices to produce safe quality product that meets regulatory and company requirements• Ensuring compliance to product safety procedures. Report and take corrective actions for product safety and incidents within specified limits.