Job Summary: Lead plant operations, ensuring efficiency, food safety, achievement of targets, and profitability, while supervising production and logistics processes. Key Highlights: 1. Leadership of plant operations with a focus on efficiency and profitability. 2. Comprehensive management of production, quality, maintenance, and logistics. 3. Opportunity to optimize processes and ensure food safety. **JOB OBJECTIVE** Lead plant operations to ensure productive efficiency, food safety, achievement of production targets, and profitability. Supervise frying, seasoning, packaging, maintenance, and logistics processes. **MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES** * **Production:** Supervise adherence to the daily production plan, monitoring frying parameters (temperature, oil absorption), seasoning, and packaging. Implement continuous improvement (Lean, 5S) to optimize OEE. * **Food Safety and Quality:** Ensure GMP, HACCP, allergen control, and metal detector management. Guarantee the organoleptic quality of the final product. * **Maintenance:** Manage preventive maintenance of critical equipment (fryers, packaging machines, slicers) to minimize unplanned downtime. * **Logistics:** Coordinate seasonal raw material supply (potatoes, bananas) and supervise shipments to meet OTIF requirements. * **Leadership:** Lead production, maintenance, and quality teams (supervisors, operators). Train staff on safety and food safety. * **Costs:** Control operational budget, raw material yield, oil consumption, and waste. **REQUIREMENTS** * **Education:** Industrial Engineering, Food Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering. * **Experience:** Minimum 4 years in supervisory or deputy management roles within the **snack, fried foods, or processed food industry**. * **Knowledge:** HACCP, GMP, frying processes, nitrogen-flushed packaging, ERP systems (SAP, Odoo), OEE, OTIF, and yield metrics. * **Skills:** Team leadership, decision-making under pressure, results orientation. Employment Type: Full-time Work Location: On-site employment