Job Description

Company Description

Deep Foods, founded by Bhagwati Amin in 1977, is a family-owned-and-operated leader in Indian cuisine in North America with operations in the US, Canada, India, and Australia. With over 4,000 employees worldwide, Deep Foods produces, delivers, and commercializes a wide range of food products including frozen meals, breads, appetizers, snacks, beverages, dairy, and pantry essentials. The company's brands include Bansi®, Babu’s®, Bhagwati’s®, Deep, Deep Indian Kitchen®, Hot Mix®, Mirch Masala®, Reena’s®, and Udupi®. Every purchase of Deep Foods products benefits the Deepkiran Foundation, supporting education access for underprivileged children in rural India. Deep Foods' products are available in various retail channels such as ethnic, natural, conventional, club, drug, mass, and e-commerce.

Pay: $50,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Job Description:

Our candidate of choice will oversee all daily operations of the plant from production and manufacturing to ensuring policies and procedures are followed. You will develop processes that will maximize stewardship, safety, quality and productivity while driving continuous improvement and optimization of all processes.

This will be a second shift position

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations
• Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards
• Be responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus
• Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions
• Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime
• Commit to plant safety procedures
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
• Become an agent for culture change
• Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts
• Respect and grow from our multicultural workplace

KEY QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Bilingual Spanish is a very strong plus
• Hi speed packaging equipment experience preferably with high-speed filling types of equipment relative to frozen foods.
• Excellent all-around plant facilities knowledge including HVAC, refrigeration sanitation and all of FDA and USDA GMP rules and regulations.
• Prior experience working in a food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or related hi speed type of manufacturing company
• Minimum of at least 5+ years’ experience in Plant Management in a manufacturing facility as above described is highly preferred
• Ability to work at a high pace and hit the ground running when necessary
• The ability to communicate in Spanish is a strong plus
• Knowledge of Indian Food and Culture are very strong pluses

This will be a second shift position

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to $70,000 per year

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Experience:

• food manufacturing: 5 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Union, NJ 07083 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Union, NJ 07083: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

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