• Design, improve, and scale food production processes across mixing, cooking, cooling, and packaging operations to drive throughput, consistency, and quality at scale.
• Lead the development of unified processes, SOPs, and best practices across multiple sites to ensure consistency, repeatability, and operational alignment; eliminate variation and build scalable systems that support growth.
• Drive a culture of operational excellence by leading structured continuous improvement initiatives (Lean, Six Sigma), focusing on waste reduction, labor efficiency, throughput optimization, and cost control.
• Analyze production, yield, and downtime data to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities, and translate insights into actionable improvements that deliver measurable impact.
• Identify and resolve true root causes of production challenges, implementing sustainable, long-term fixes and building processes that prevent recurrence.
• Act as a change agent across operations, driving adoption of new processes, influencing stakeholders at all levels, and ensuring alignment between engineering, production, QA, and leadership teams.
• Identify opportunities to better leverage automation, equipment, and technology to improve efficiency, consistency, and labor optimization; partner with engineering and maintenance to implement more effective production solutions.
• Take ownership from concept through execution, driving implementation on the floor, validating results, and ensuring adoption and sustainability of improvements.
• Partner cross-functionally with QA, R&D, Maintenance, Culinary, and Operations to align on product quality, process capability, and execution standards.
• Support new product introductions from pilot through full-scale production, ensuring processes are robust, repeatable, and operationally efficient.
• Lead process validation efforts and develop clear, actionable documentation (SOPs, work instructions, control plans) to ensure consistent execution across teams and sites.
• Ensure all processes are designed and executed in compliance with HACCP, USDA/FDA, and GMP standards, embedding food safety into every stage of production.

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