Operations Manager / Coordinator Johnsonville Sausage
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin
Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage, is the No. 1 national sausage brand, featuring: brats, Italian sausage, smoked-cooked links, breakfast sausage and patties, grillers and meatballs. Johnsonville employs approximately 1,600 members. Founded in 1945, the privately held company remains family owned today, providing various sausage products in 40 countries.Strategic and tactical direction for the Manufacturing, Sanitation, and Scheduling and Planning functions of the Fresh Operations business, within Johnsonville’s network; including the manufacturing of products at the lowest possible cost consistent with Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost and customer delivery requirements, while meeting regulatory compliance. Enhance, optimize and change, the operational procedures, processes, systems, and principles in the areas of information flow and management. Provide leadership and communication to all associates, assigned directly or indirectly, to the Fresh Product, work centers. Required an aptitude to organize and coordinate department functions and provide leadership to successfully execute strategic Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and Key Performance Measures (KPM’s) goals, objectives, and initiatives. The primary function of this role is to reduce operational complexity, improve the focus on specific Fresh business unit processes and results, improve the transfer of crucial information to our operating teams, and foster the ongoing growth and development of our members by modeling the required behavior that supports the Johnsonville Way.