Education: Bachelor’s degree in agribusiness, business or a related field required.
Experience: 5-10 years food processing experience is preferred.
Salary/Benefits: $80k+
Salary is commensurate with experience. Up to 20% potential bonus potential Full-time employees receive excellent benefits including: Medical, Dental, Group Term Life, Disability, Retirement Benefits (401k with matching contributions and pension plan), 10 paid holidays and 3 weeks’ vacation.
Skills Required:
§ Processing, warehousing, quality assurance, inventory mgmt, and chemical application experience is preferred.
§ Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills.
§ Proficient with MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
§ Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization and external contacts.
§ Solid decision making skills.
§ Bilingual Spanish-English helpful but not required.
Description: The Processing Manager will oversee all walnut hulling & drying, walnut processing and prune dehydrating activities. This person would be responsible for the following areas:
§ Meet goals of hulling, drying, storage and inshell & shelling processing in throughput and quality
§ Ensure a safe workplace environment for all employees and visitors
§ Oversee operation, maintenance, and safety of all processing equipment
§ Maintain and improve operation of facility to efficiently produce product to meet customer expectations
§ Help create operating and capital budgets and keep spending within approved limits
§ Oversee installation and construction of approved capital projects
§ Coordinate communication between production, processing, and marketing departments
§ Select, hire, train, supervise and evaluate the processing team in job expectations
§ Ensure that shipment quality meets contracted specifications
§ Ensure that facility meets requirements of Federal and State regulatory agencies
§ Help manage overall risk and food safety of facility