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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
Salary
Salary not provided
About the company:
We are a team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, artists, foodies and plant romantics working to improve the lives of plants, people, and the planet. We currently operate in South San Francisco, CA, and Laramie, WY. Our new Compton, CA site set to open in 2021 will be the world’s first, high-capacity indoor vertical farm.
Plenty believes food justice is social justice. Equal access to healthy, nutritious food is fundamental to a quality life. We build farms in communities that need better access to food and jobs. Plenty provides living-wage, year-round jobs along with flavorful, nutrient-rich food to the communities we serve. We use automation and robotics so machines do the backbreaking labor while people perform new kinds of skilled agricultural, science and high-tech jobs.
Now is the time to help Plenty achieve its mission to feed the world healthy food in a sustainable way. We are a start-up with expanding career growth opportunities.
We are actively seeking those who embody our core values: find a way, down to earth, & grow together. These values guide how we work together as teammates, approach innovation and engage with customers. Does this sound like you? Join the mission as we improve human and planetary health by increasing access to craveable fruits and vegetables.
About Plenty
Plenty is on a mission to make fresh, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables more accessible to everyone. Our cutting-edge indoor, vertical farms produce extraordinary yields using a fraction of the land and water outdoor farms need. Nutrient-rich, mouth-watering and locally grown, our crops help people, communities and our planet to be healthier and more resilient.
The people and teams who make up Plenty are at the core of how we do this. We are a collaborative and innovative bunch. We are passionate about our contributions to Plenty, the communities around us and our planet, but never take ourselves too seriously. We're down to Earth, we grow together, and we always find a way. Most importantly, we're here to improve the lives of plants, people and our planet.
Plenty is looking for a Production Manager to join our Farm Operations team. The Farm Operations team ensures that we are safely producing food safe and quality products at the highest levels of productivity. Your skills and training will be applied to plant production in a modern, fast paced, high-technology vertical indoor farm. In this role, you will direct a diverse team to execute our end-to-end farm production process, including production supervisors, growers, operations associates, training coordinator and a production planner. As new technologies are turned over from our development team to our farm for validation, you'll create and document standardized processes to prepare them for rollout to Plenty's other farm locations. Tight coordination with support teams such as Food Safety, EHS, Quality and Maintenance is required to guarantee an effective and efficient execution of the production plan.
- Set and achieve ambitious production goals
- Communicate goals to your team's leaders, supervisors, and staff
- Consistently hit Plenty's mind-blowing product taste and quality standards in order to achieve superior brand recognition
- Work with the CPT Facilities team to prioritize equipment-related projects. Ensure high productivity, minimal downtime, and minimized overall production costs in all farm spaces
- Champion a relentless commitment to a sustainable food and worker safety culture
- Ensure the appropriate allocation of resources to comply with food safety, worker safety, and product quality requirements
- Comply with all Facilities, State and Federal OSHA, EPA, FDA, HACCP, and SQF regulations
- Participate and in the annual Management review of the Food Safety and quality system
- Lead the CPT operations, and production management teams
- Manage all future hiring, including labor planning and requests
- Review team schedules and ensure optimum staffing levels to achieve output and cost goals
- Ensure culture is cohesive and teams are integrated Manage to a budget, working with the Head of Farm Operations and Strategy and the Finance team to set cost targets
- Provide plants growth cycle process expertise and recommend projects to enhance yield and performance
- Recommend improvement projects and initiatives to enhance productivity and reduce cost.
- Drive housekeeping in the farm and a culture of 5S
- Manage the planning, budgeting, commissioning, and validation of new equipment and technologies in the SSF production farm. Document processes and lessons learned so future farms can follow identical procedures
- History of simplifying processes and removing production bottlenecks
- Past experience operating a large-scale manufacturing, agricultural and/or similar facility
- Experience doing FMEA’s
- Experience scaling a product from nothing to large volume
- Experience driving out cost out of production
- Experience making production processes repeatable and reliable
- Experience managing to a budget
- Past experience leading a team of both hourly and salaried employees
What we can offer
Exempt
- Compensation; we’ll pay you a competitive salary, give you a stake in the company via equity and contribute toward your 401K
- Health & well-being; we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits, in-office gyms, and an Employee Assistance Program to help with mental health, financial & legal matters
- Food; in-office lunches, snacks and access to our leafy greens & new produce in development -- are you up for a side gig as a taste tester?
- Grow together; learning & development opportunities including unlimited access to our Upstart University platform, LinkedIn Learning, lunch & learns, training certifications, and more
- Equipment; we’ll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful, including $75/month toward your phone bill and $250 every 2 years to upgrade your phone
- Paid time off; we know you’ll do your best if you’re taking time to recharge, so we don’t cap the amount of days you can take off per year in addition to the paid holidays we observe
- Parental leave; 12 weeks off for all new parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition
Food & Safety Requirements
- Comply with all Plant, State and Federal OSHA, EPA, FDA, HACCP, and SQF regulations
- All applicants must be 18 years or older to apply
- Comply with GMP/GAPS in the Facility
- Conduct monitoring activities to assure finished product comply with food safety and quality specifications
- Assist in the maintenance of Food Safety and Quality system
Plenty’s target compensation range for this role is $120,000 - $150,000 for this location. Actual compensation is commensurate with experience and alignment with role requirements.
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