Lean Manufacturing Manager jobs in Santa Rosa, CA

Summary

Summer is just around the corner, and what better way to enjoy it than to intern with Amy’s Kitchen!

We are a family-owned, proudly independent organic food company and Certified B Corporation® whose purpose is to make it easy and enjoyable for everyone to eat well. Amy’s is committed to cooking authentic great tasting food with high quality, meticulously sourced organic ingredients and making them convenient for consumers.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Project Details:

Support with updating and creating processes in our Santa Rosa facility.

• This project will involve 3 different areas of our manufacturing facility including Kitchen, Production & Packaging.
• You will have the opportunity to collaborate with key employees throughout the facility to update and create processes that are needed for our daily operations. These processes could be related to Safety, Quality and/or Operations.
• Project mentorship with our Sr Manager, Operations.

Qualifications and Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION

• Attending four-year college or university to attain Bachelor's degree (B.S., or B.A.); or already awarded Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university. Ideally focusing in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Administration.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Bi-lingual with Spanish.
• Experience with Microsoft Suites - intermediate to advanced.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, project leadership, analytical, and reasoning skills.
• Self-starter and a team player that will thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with a sense of urgency.

SKILLS

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.
• Ability to make effective presentations on complex topics to plant management and other stakeholders.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, cold (coolers and freezers) and hot (processing equipment) conditions and moving mechanical parts.  The noise level in the work environment can be loud.

TRAVEL

None

Compensation range for the Santa Rosa, CA area:

$17.40-23.00 per hour