Mila
Production Manager
Sumner, WA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Supply ChainProcess ImprovementERPGMPFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCommunicationMentoringFood SafetyFood Science
About the role
- About MiLa MìLà is a Chinese food company.
- Our teams work tirelessly to enhance delicious products that we all enjoy at home!
- While MìLà is a Chinese food brand, it's really a celebration of the power of food to bring us together, share our stories, and discover new flavors and cultures.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily production across lines, shifts, and production areas.
- Use ERP/MRP systems to support production scheduling, material readiness, labor planning, production reporting, and issue escalation.
- Own production KPIs: safety, quality, output, schedule attainment, labor efficiency, yield, downtime, waste, rework, and first-pass quality.
- Support rapid scale-ups, new product introductions, production trials, process testing, and equipment start-ups.
- Partner with Materials, FSQA, Maintenance, Sanitation, Planning, and R&D to remove barriers to execution.
- Build standard work for start-ups, changeovers, staffing, production checks, downtime tracking, trials, and end-of-shift closeout.
- Coach and develop supervisors, leads, and frontline employees.
- Maintain strong GMP, safety, 5S, housekeeping, and food safety discipline.
- Build a culture of safety, quality, urgency, accountability, flexibility, technology adoption, and teamwork.
- Something we can own, but that's also meant to be shared.
Requirements
- 7+ years of production, manufacturing, or operations leadership experience.
- Experience in food, CPG, manufacturing, or high-volume production.
- Experience in fast-changing environments with scale-ups, product trials, shifting priorities, or new product launches.
- Strong knowledge of production scheduling, labor planning, line performance, downtime, yield, waste, and throughput.
- Ability to use data to solve problems and improve performance.
- Strong knowledge of GMPs, food safety, sanitation, safety, and quality standards.
- Ability to work on the production floor in refrigerated/frozen environments.
- Must be comfortable working around raw meat/poultry, dough, sauces, frozen products, sanitation chemicals, equipment, and cold environments.
- Must be available to support audits, inspections, urgent quality issues, multiple shifts, and occasional weekend or off-shift needs.
- Required Qualifications 7+ years of production, manufacturing, or operations leadership experience.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Operations, Business, Engineering, Food Science, Supply Chain, or related field.
- Experience in frozen food, meat/poultry, dumplings, prepared meals, USDA/FDA-regulated food manufacturing, or CPG.
- Experience with forming, cooking, freezing, packaging, or high-speed food production lines.
- Experience with ERP/MRP platforms, production dashboards, labor tracking, downtime tracking, digital production boards, or manufacturing execution systems.
- Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, Kaizen, 5S, or continuous improvement experience.
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.
- Success Measures Schedule delivered safely, consistently, and efficiently.
- Lines start on time with labor, materials, equipment, sanitation, and QA readiness confirmed.
Benefits
- MiLa needs a flexible, data-driven leader who can use ERP/MRP systems, production data, and floor-level discipline to support fast scale-ups, new product launches, production trials, and process changes.
Company info
- Our mission is to build something that feels authentically and uniquely true to our roots as a Chinese-American-founded brand.
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