Role Overview The Senior Process Leader role sits at the core of the Deli team, leading manufacturing and Deli operations for Deli Star. They will drive yield, uptime, throughput, and scale-up execution. The Senior Process Leader ensures that plant systems, equipment, and processes are reliable, food safe, and drive profitable growth.
This role plays a critical part in advancing Deli Star's fresh sous vide and cook-chill manufacturing platform by ensuring processes are robust, repeatable, and scalable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manufacturing Process Management:
- Oversee the daily execution of all Deli operational and sanitation processes, ensuring efficiency, productivity, and adherence to production schedule.
- Effectively staff against approved labor budget, and organize the team to meet production goals and customer orders. You will make sure all line and area leaders have the resources needed to complete the plan for the day.
- Troubleshoot production issues and collaborate with Leaders, Specialist Engineering, along with other departments to resolve problems quickly.
- Support Process Scale up and collaborate with the commercialization and Engineering teams.
- Report on key production metrics including lbs/labor hour, equipment availability, and OEE.
- Regulatory and Quality Compliance:
- Ensure all production activities comply with regulatory requirements.
- Oversee and administer employee training programs and maintain accurate training records.
- Collaborate extensively with Sr Leadership and the Quality Department to guarantee adherence to all established quality parameters.
- Ensure strict adherence to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards, and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) procedures and regulations.
- Drive Production Excellence
- Develop and manage core training matrix
- Coach and train employees
- Promote accountability among all team members, ensuring their work aligns with Deli Star's core values.
- Lead root cause analysis for process failures, equipment issues, and quality deviations.
- Ensure CAPA are communicated, implemented and effective.
Qualifications:
- B.S degree in Biology, Food Science, or Engineering is preferred. A high school diploma coupled with five or more years of demonstrable professional experience, may be considered as an acceptable equivalent.
- 1-3 years progressive experience within a food manufacturing environment required
- Supervisory experience within a food manufacturing environment preferred.
- A thorough understanding of manufacturing regulations, both internal and external regulatory requirements, including HACCP, USDA, FDA, and SQF standards and methodologies is essential.
- Demonstrated proficiency in identifying and resolving problems.
- Ability to function both independently and collaboratively with various departments, subordinates or peers is a must.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Good conflict resolution and people management skills
