Ramon Flores

General Production Manager is charge of the second processing operations of the plant. This includes managing the day-to-day operations, ensuring that a low-cost operation is maintained while managing 335 hourly employees with a team of 7 supervisors. Work with the schedule planner to streamline the production schedule to ensure order completion. Promote a healthy working environment with supporting departments to ensure high-quality product manufacturing. Manage maintenance performance to sustain a minimal downtime production day. This position also deals with USDA inspector audits and inspections.

Achievements

• Improving the supervisor's skill set by actively coaching.

Operation Plant Manager Overseeing day-to-day operations of the plant, keeping oversight of production scheduling, raw material receiving, all production operations from manufacturing to packaging, and warehousing to achieve operational goals. Maximize employee utilization by properly allocating 80 employees, with the help of a management team, to obtain low-cost production. Work alongside the SQF audit practitioner to keep track of audit readiness by ensuring that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), food safety, and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) regulations are being followed. Partner with the CFO to create a monthly operating budget, and be responsible for the implementation of the budget while operating the plant, accounting for the KPIs. Work with HR for personnel issues, including interviews, hiring, training new employees, evaluations, and corrective coaching as required.

Achievements

• Work with Quality Assurance to lower quality complaints by 15% by analyzing data and targeting texture on the high-volume SKUs.
• Improve dryer utilization to reduce energy consumption by establishing improvements on SOPs, improving product quality, and achieving a 10% yield by increasing the moisture content in the products.
• Create a raw material program, that implemented an inventory control by lot, also establish min. and max. limits improving material ordering to minimize on-hand inventory Improving money follow and avoiding spoilage or expiration issues.
• Coached managers and supervisors to enhance their growth, their abilities, and teach them about leadership, team building, and communication.
• Created a monthly forecast with sales and warehouse collaboration, building a three-month schedule to have visibility for material ordering purposes and finished good inventory.
• Helped R&D improve four formulas by ingredient substitution, implementing batching changes, and creating product specs.
• Create and manage a plant capital project by building a new clean room for a new product forming, taking 3 months to bring the product from concept to market.

Plant Manager is actively support the daily operations of the plant, planning for upcoming operational goals. Maximize employee utilization by properly allocating 70 employees, with management collaboration. Work alongside the SQF audit practitioner to keep track of audit readiness by ensuring that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), food safety, and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) regulations are being followed. Create a monthly operating budget and manage the implementation of the budget throughout the Production, Maintenance, and Warehouse departments, keeping a high standard of plant accountability against the KPIs. Work with HR for personnel issues, including interviews, hiring, training new employees, evaluations, and corrective coaching as required.

Achievements

• Established a consumption program to identify our yields, keep ingredient inventory control, and keep track of P&L. Increasing our inventory accuracy in the first 6 months from 25% to 87%, and achieving a monthly average of 5% every 2 months, ending up at 97% operating inventory.
• Set the production KPI of all products to maximize equipment OEE, targeting hourly efficiency and labor allocation, so supervisors can effectively execute the schedule plan, increasing efficiency by an average of 22%.
• Build a monthly schedule to properly balance plant production and maximize efficiency, to promote a low-cost case, and to have visibility for material ordering and allocation.
• An integral part of the food safety team that assisted in getting the plant ready for BRC certification to achieve an AA rating.
• Created a more robust sanitation program and plant management that created an environment to obtain more business for the plant, landing major customers like Amy’s Kitchen, increasing plant orders by 31%.

The Operations Senior Supervisor oversees the packaging operations for raw almond production, ensuring efficiency, quality, and compliance with safety standards. This role is essential in optimizing packaging processes, maintaining equipment functionality, managing team performance, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and achieving operational objectives. The Packaging Manager is also responsible for coordinating activities in a 24-hour operation, ensuring that the raw and packaging materials are available to successfully complete orders, and aligning the efforts of other packaging supervisors with company objectives.

Achievements

• Created a blending program using an Excel sheet, expediting production combinations to achieve a homogeneous blend of the product.
• Created position-specific training for the department, better prepared new team members.
• Increase production output by 10% by strategically separating breaks and lunches.
• Reduced equipment downtime by devising and implementing a proactive preventive maintenance plan. Through analysis of downtime records and findings of OEE part lifetime.

Production Manager to oversee and manage the day-to-day department operations related to pouch manufacturing functions, including manufacturing, quality assurance, and sanitation. I was responsible for establishing metrics, improving processes, and providing direct management to obtain and maintain KPIs. Partner with the plant scheduler to ensure the schedule is balanced for maximum efficiency, while maintaining a low-cost per-case focused operating structure. Work with the R&D manager to improve or produce a new recipe. Ensure compliance with all standards, policies, and regulations for the safe and efficient production of quality products.

• Decrease production errors by implementing comprehensive training that highlights past mistakes and potential solutions.
• Implementing a new line efficiency sheet that was compressed to be displayed for production view in real time.
• Improve downtime reporting to analyze seasonal downtime, and to pinpoint areas of opportunity.
• Improve the dumper capabilities to be able to dump drums and bins at the same time by designing an insert for the cage that increases productivity and reduces manpower.
• Introduce a capital project to reposition dumping equipment to streamline production.

The production supervisor oversees the production operations/ material department, ensuring efficiency, quality, and compliance with safety standards. This role is essential in optimizing production processes, maintaining equipment functionality, ensuring that enough raw material is stage for 24 hour production, managing team performance, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and achieving operational objectives. I was also responsible for coordinating ingredient weighing and usage for daily consumption reporting.

Achievements

• Created a consumption report using an Excel sheet, tracking daily ingredient usage and case production to ensure proper PID allocation of resources to properly calculate P&L.
• Improve inventory control of raw materials from an estimated 70% to a low 90%.
• Create training material for the key operator position.

• Communicated effectively with team members about any issues encountered during production runs.
• Coordinated with supervisors or other personnel regarding changes in production schedules.
• Verified accuracy of raw materials received before entering them into the system.
• Recorded data from each stage of the production process into a computer database.
• Prepared and built food items according to standardized recipes and directions.
• Performed preventative maintenance on production machines as required.
• Assisted in the development of new processes and procedures for batching operations.
• Prepared reports detailing information such as yields, costs, waste.