Description
Job Summary:
Coordinate and ensure efficient operation of production processes, guaranteeing compliance with the production plan and quality standards.
Key Highlights:
1. Lead the operational team to achieve business objectives
2. Ensure proper inventory management and timely supply
3. Ensure quality, safety, and security standards
**About Kerry**
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.**About the role**
Coordinate and ensure efficient operation of production processes, guaranteeing compliance with the production plan, proper inventory management, timely material supply, adherence to quality, safety, and security standards, and leadership of the operational team to achieve business objectives.**Key responsibilities**
**Main Responsibilities**
* Plan in advance the supply of Raw Materials (RM), Packaging Materials (PM), and supplies to prevent production stoppages per shift.
* Coordinate all plant production activities in alignment with Management.
* Ensure proper location, identification, labeling, and rotation (FIFO) of RM, PM, equipment, tools, and Finished Product (FP).
* Coordinate the production process, assign responsibilities, distribute tasks, and monitor team performance results.
* Align and verify the production schedule with Manufacturing, Commercial, and Procurement departments.
* Ensure daily settlement of the production process (quantities), entry of FP into inventory, and recording of RM consumption in the system (Office Automation).
* Coordinate and ensure dispatches and transfers of RM and FP between plants, guaranteeing complete and accurate deliveries per established procedures.
* Conduct and supervise periodic and random inventories, comparing physical inventories against system records.
* Ensure accurate completion of physical and/or digital quality management system forms and records.
* Ensure plant order, cleanliness, and sanitation.
* Actively participate in Production Committees.
* Verify proper use of institutional email and plant equipment (power-on, power-off, and operation).
* Ensure daily recording of movements and incidents in the Production Logbook.
* Support tests, trials, and operational activities required outside regular working hours.
* Ensure knowledge and operation of all plants under responsibility.
**Qualifications and skills**
**Professional experience**
* Minimum **3 years of experience** in this position or in similar roles within production environments.
**Key competencies**
* Teamwork
* Interpersonal relationships
* Effective communication
* Commitment
* Planning and organization
**Additional knowledge and skills**
* Proficiency in office automation tools.
* Performance indicator (KPI) management.
* Report preparation and presentation.
* Basic knowledge of labor legislation.
* Knowledge and application of BPM.