Operations Supervisor (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

  The Wine Group (http://www.google.com)

  Madera, CA, California

Reporting to the Operations Manager, this role has direct responsibility for the day to day operations of the facility. Key areas of responsibility include planning and directing the Madera winery cellar operation and bag manufacturing, ensuring priorities and protocols are achieved, while managing people, cost effectiveness, quality, accuracy, and safety to all performance standards and schedule.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• The Operations Supervisor must exhibit strong managerial and leadership skills. Also the ability to interact with the employees while continuing to build a cohesive team and develop individual potential within the team members.
• Must embrace and live daily the TWG Values: "Cost-minded, Performance driven, and Empowered!" Embedded in these values is our commitment to Safety.
• Coordinates, prioritizes, and implements daily cellar activities including, but not limited to: supervision, training and cross-training, job assignments, learning assistance, individual employee development, counseling, safety awareness, and discipline of employees to help them reach the overall objective of creating a great product for minimal cost.
• Key driver of all Safety policies and procedures for the site. This includes overseeing safety audits, incident investigations, implementation of Companywide safety policies and relevant safety training. Must lead by example.
• Ensures compliance with all safety, personnel procedures, policies and is responsible for keeping all SOP's current.
• Prepare and implement training programs to continually upgrade the skills of personnel in areas of responsibilities. Responsible for the development and training of personnel to include scheduling training sessions
• Manage the utilization of all winery and manufacturing process equipment, to ensure that maximum utilization is achieved.
• Develop the production supervision staff (including Foremen/Leads), establishing key performance indicators, and other measurable metrics to gauge the efficiency of the staff.
• Work closely with the Maintenance Supervisor to ensure all equipment, cooperage, and systems assigned to the cellar and manufacturing departments are maintained in good, sanitary, safe, and cost effective working order to ensure quality of wine produced and safe maintenance of the bulk inventory.
• Responsible to see that inventories of plant equipment are updated on an annual basis and presented to the Plant Management for review (pumps, hoses, fittings, spare motors, etc).
• Must have competent understanding of high volumetric process flows, as it relates to fluid process movement and wet handling.
• Must be capable of setting cost recovery initiatives through process improvements.
• Develop sanitation best practices while taking environmental impacts into consideration.
• Play active role in documentation control for all regulatory agencies
• In conjunction with Operations Manager, lead the daily shift change-over meetings with Winemaking, Cellar, and Maintenance.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

 Ability to work at heights up to 45 feet
 Ability to operate various types of machinery to include, but not limited to, lift trucks, dump trucks, pallet jacks, hand trucks, etc. May include the operations of any or all processing equipment including refrigeration compressors, chillers and condensers
 Must be able to repeatedly lift and carry weights of up to 50 pounds at varying frequencies
 Possess the ability to work in a fast pace environment under pressure
 Ability to perform tasks requiring bending, stooping, standing, and twisting in the performance of various task in the production environment

QUALIFICATIONS

 Must demonstrate leadership abilities. Proven track record of high integrity.
 BS/BA in Engineering, Food Science, Microbiology or Business Administration preferred.
 Minimum 5-7 years in staff management.
 Strong project management skills.
 Comfortable in bargaining unit environments.
 Adaptive and stable in changing environments.
 Must get the big picture issues, without losing the eye for details.
 Proven analytical thinker, and ability to make timely decisions.
 Proven resolution management skills.
 Powerful oral and written communicator.
 Keen listening skills.
Must embrace and demonstrate The Wine Group Core Values - Performance, Empowered and Cost-mindful, and keep them in mind when making all decisions