- Develop and follow up on overall production performance and quality standards. Participate in daily update meetings, analyze and report on downtime or other issues
- Oversee department planning and coordination of workload based on production schedule and adapt to changing circumstances as needed
- Evaluate and recommend improvements in methods, equipment, procedures, etc.
- Drive results – includes production volume and reliability, labor management, workflow, and materials loss reduction
- Oversee compliance with GMP, Food Safety & Quality SOPs, and HACCP guidelines. Do quality checks and confer with Quality on food quality issues
- Understand and model personal safety policies, reporting any safety hazards, and actively preventing/eliminating hazards that can cause injury or illness
- Coordinate production activities with the Kitchen, Warehouse, and Quality Assurance
- Work with Sanitation to ensure rooms are ready for production
- Work closely with Maintenance to troubleshoot issues and communicate needs
- Work with HR regarding hiring, employee relations, and termination needs
- Monitor onboarding of new employees and performance-based training or cross-training activities
- Interact with Supply Chain Manager as needed on supply of products or materials used in production
- Communicate clear performance expectations and provide performance coaching
- Monitor/guide supervisory completion of time cards, performance reviews, and dealing with employee issues
- Lead/participate in continuous improvement efforts
- Foster a spirit of cooperation and respect within team and with other departments
- Responsible for implementation and oversight of all programs, SOPs, GMPs related to the food safety management system for their department
- College degree or equivalent experience and education in operational management or food science related area
- 5-7 years’ experience managing groups of employees in a production environment
- Excellent leadership skills
- Effective people management in a multi-cultural, multi-generational workforce
- Production planning skills, process flow understanding, and production management experience
- Practical problem solving and decision making skills
- Safety management knowledge
- Strong, clear communication and coaching skills
- Excellent organizational skills and detail oriented
- Ability to write and present reports
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to question from groups of employees
- Ability to interact effectively with regulators, vendors, and outside industry groups
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and previous experience using computerized payroll/labor tracking
- HACCP knowledge or certification desired
- Previous work in food industry strongly desired
- Bilingual in Spanish is strongly preferred
- LEAN experience is a plus
- Regularly required to use hands to feel, grab, or operate objects, tools, and controls while reaching with hands and arms
- Frequently required to stand, communicate, and listen
- Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel or crouch
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- Able to perform repetitive movements
- Able to work in variable temperatures (cold/hot)
Our Mission
Improving Life Through Better Nutrition at Home
Core Values
Teamwork
Relentlessly Dependable
Appreciation & Respect
Innovation & Constant Improvement
Delivering Excellence
Company Overview
Mom’s Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully-prepared, refrigerated meal solutions directly to homes nationwide. For over 20 years, we’ve provided seniors, patients recovering post-discharge, and those managing chronic conditions with tailored nutrition solutions that support individual and unique needs. If you’re passionate about the wellbeing of others and truly want to make a difference, Mom’s Meals could be the place for you! We’re a family-operated company looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people to join our team.
Equity & EOE Statement
At Mom’s Meals, we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Mom’s Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.
Effective Date: October 18, 2024
PurFoods, LLC and our affiliated companies (“PurFoods,” “we,” or “us”) are committed to protecting your privacy and are providing the following details regarding how we collect and use the personal information of California residents who are PurFoods employees, independent contractors, job applicants, owners, directors or officers (and their emergency contacts and recipients of employment benefits) (each a “California Employee”).
We are providing this information under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Please read this Privacy Notice to California Employees carefully and provide it to your emergency contacts and recipients of employment benefits.
PurFoods may collect the following categories of personal information:
- Identifiers, such as name, contact information, online identifiers and Social Security numbers and other government-issued ID numbers;
- Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, education information, employment history, financial information and medical and medical insurance information;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as sex, age, race, religion, national origin, disability, medical conditions and information, citizenship, immigration status, request for leave and marital status;
- Biometric information, such as fingerprints;
- Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our and other websites and systems;
- Geolocation data, such as device location, vehicle location and IP location;
- Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as photographs or audio or video recordings created in connection with our business activities;
- Professional or employment-related information, such as work history, prior employer, information relating to references, details of qualifications, skills and experience, human resources data, and data necessary for benefits and related administration services;
- Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.
We use California Employee personal information for the purposes of operating, managing, and maintaining our business, managing our workforce, and accomplishing our business purposes and objectives, including for example, using personal information to:
- Manage workforce activities and personnel generally, including for recruitment, background screening, performance management, career development, payments administration, employee training, leaves and promotions;
- Perform identity verification, accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations;
- Administer hiring, promotion, and discipline;
- Manage payroll, wages, tax forms and filing, expense reimbursements, and other awards such as stock options, stock grants and bonuses, and provide healthcare, pensions, savings plans and other benefits;
- Calculate insurance and other employee benefits;
- Notify family members in case of an emergency;
- Maintain and secure our facilities, equipment, systems, and infrastructure;
- Protect the health and safety of our workforce and others, and conduct risk and security control and monitoring;
- Conduct research, analytics, and data analysis to assist in planning succession and to ensure business continuity, as well as to design employee retention programs and diversity initiatives;
- Provide an efficient means for personnel to obtain the contact information of their colleagues so they may contact them;
- Monitor use of IT infrastructure, internet access, and electronic communication for unauthorized, unlawful, or inappropriate use;
- Record phone calls for training, quality assurance, and legal compliance purposes;
- Operate and manage IT and communications systems and facilities, allocate company assets and human resources, and undertake strategic planning and project management;
- Obtain legal advice and establish, exercise or defend legal rights, and act on collection and discovery requests in the context of litigation, government investigations or regulatory audits or inquiries; and
- Comply with law, legal process, investigations, internal policies and other requirements such as income tax deductions, monitoring, record-keeping and reporting obligations.
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice to California Employees at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice to California Employees, we will post the updated notice on this webpage with a new “Last Updated” date.
