ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 200 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century-long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, life insurance covered by the company
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Two (2) weeks vacations
• Ten (10) paid holidays

POSITION SUMMARY

Under the direction of VP, Manufacturing/Production Manager, the Assistant Production Manager is responsible for directing and coordinating activities of production function in processing materials or manufacturing products in industrial organization by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist the Production Manager/Head of Manufacturing to implement daily production schedule with high efficiency to achieve KPI in different plants and prepare operation report.
• Review and approve daily production reports.
• Prepare work schedules for staff members.
• Provide on the job training & safety training for new staff.
• Ensure health and safety precautions and give proper direction to staff members when accident occurs.
• Arrange to pull packaging material for different products.
• Inspect the plant regularly to ensure that no non-conformities are found on safety issues.
• Implement the quality program/sanitation program in the production department.
• Communicate with Engineering Technicians for repairs/troubleshooting on malfunctioning machines.
• Supervise all production supervisors/assistant production supervisors and production workers in chicken powder line. Assign appropriate tasks including but not limited to repacking, inspection, labelling, etc to team members.
• Work with QA or pest control company to eliminate insects and rodent activities.
• Maintain inventory accuracy for Raw material, packaging material and Finished goods
• Ability to oversee and arrange manpower, line change over for chicken powder line.
• Provide cross-training for employees across all plants.
• Good machine understanding and troubleshooting skills.
• Hiring and termination of production staff.
• Order sanitation chemicals for the plant.
• Monitor the sanitation level and arrange dry/wet cleaning accordingly.
• Monitor daily production.
• Provide on-job training & safety training for existing & new staff.
• Keep track on packaging materials & sanitation chemicals.
• Regular inspection in the facility.
• Implement quality program in production department.
• Other duty as assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Problem Solving
• Action Oriented
• Drive for Results
• Planning & Organizing
• Customer Focus

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervises daily production operations.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each major responsibility 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 major responsibilities.

EDUCATION, SKILLS and EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to read and comprehend equipment manuals and electrical diagrams for set-up control loops.
• Candidate must be able to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Good organizing & management skills required.

• Familiar with CAL/OSHA laws, HACCP, GMP.
• Good written & oral communication skills.
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Able to work independently & under pressure.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ideal candidate must compute rates, ratios, and percentages and draw and interpret bar graphs.

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 regularly required to stand; use hands or fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision ability is required, including close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust and stay 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 regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shocks; explosives; risk of radiation; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 300 employees. We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.