Operations Manager

Employment Type:

Full-time

Available Positions:

1

Location

: On-Site

Application Deadline:

Apr 2, 2026

Summary

The Operations Manager will lead the day-to-day cookie dough production operations, ensuring safe, high-quality, on-time, and cost-effective manufacturing. This role drives operational performance, food and human safety, quality assurance, maintenance coordination, and team engagement.

Key Activities

• Safety Leadership: Establish and maintain a strong safety culture focused on human and food safety. Model safe behaviors, conduct regular safety assessments, and drive continuous improvement in incident prevention and corrective actions.
• Production Management: Plan, schedule, and execute production targets for dough production lines; ensure adherence to recipes/formulations, yields, and quality specifications; manage line changeovers, line uptime, and changeovers with minimal disruption.
• Food Safety \& Quality: Implement and uphold HACCP and SQF-based controls; ensure GMP compliance; champion first-pass quality and corrective actions to prevent non-conformances.
• Process Excellence: Identify and eliminate bottlenecks, reduce variability, improve yields, and maximize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) across production lines; lead root cause analyses for deviations and drive effective corrective actions.
• Compliance \& Traceability: Ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory, state/federal, and industry standards; maintain proper documentation, recordkeeping, and batch traceability.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead and participate in kaizen events; deploy Lean/Six Sigma practices as applicable; translate data into actionable improvements and measurable KPIs.
• Capex \& Maintenance Collaboration: Partner with the Maintenance Manager on asset care, preventive maintenance, and capital projects to support reliable production performance.
• Cost \& Performance Management: Track and control labor, material usage, waste, and controllable expenses; manage cost-to-serve, yield dollars to budget, and downtime impact.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in analyzing downtime, variance, and yield data; ability to drive data-driven improvements
• Basic budgeting, forecasting, and KPI management experience.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to present to all levels, from the shop floor to executive leaders.

Educations \& Experience

• 5–7 years of hands-on experience in food manufacturing with increasing leadership responsibilities; prior P\&L exposure preferred or demonstrated budget ownership.
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, with prior hands-on experience in food safety systems; SQF experience desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Science, Operations Management, or related field.

Are you looking for your next opportunity? We can help.

Finding a great opportunity that fosters growth, a great culture, and leadership opportunities can be difficult. Top Quality Recruitment (TQR) connects professionals with leadership opportunities across the Packaging, Food and Beverage, Medical Devices, and Biotechnology industries. With 50\+ years of experience, we believe in one-to-one communication and finding the best candidate/employer match possible.

TQR is an equal-opportunity employer that encourages diversity. We will consider all applications.

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request.

Are you looking to hire? Get started here:

https://www.topqualityrecruitment.com/fill-a-position/

See hiring advice: https://www.topqualityrecruitment.com/blog/

See all available opportunities: https://www.topqualityrecruitment.com/jobs/

We thank all applicants for their interest and appreciate the time and effort involved; however, due to the large volume of resumes received only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Please attached your resume to your application.

Job ID: 8208