Company description

Pacific Pickle Works is a Santa Barbara, California based maker of clean label gourmet pickles and pickled vegetables, and award winning producer of all-natural and hand-crafted savory drink mixers. They have helped define the "West Coast" style of spicy pickles and have won several awards both for their pickled vegetables and their drink mixers.

Job description

Pacific Pickle Works is looking for a skilled, organized, energetic, and self motivated person to manage the production of our food products. We are a small company based in Santa Barbara, CA and make all of our products in small batches by hand. This is a full time position. See the following details:

Required skills:

• Great attitude - even in stressful times.
• Ability to foster positive working relationships with all co-workers and outside vendors
• Strong individual and team management skills
• Quick self-learner and ability to figure things out with minimal instruction.
• Ability to make good judgments on how to handle situations in the absence of direct supervision.
• Strong computer skills in programs such as Excel, Google Drive, and ability to quickly learn new specialized applications for things like inventory management, traceability and cost management.
• Appreciation for and interest in the food business
• Strong food production skills with ability to improve efficiency of team, enforce health policies, and report on regulatory requirements.
• Conversational Spanish fluency required

Job responsibilities

• Work closely with management to learn all aspects of the pickle and drink mixer manufacturing business
• Constantly work to improve efficiency of the food manufacturing process and the efficiency of the production team
• Work to improve costs of food production while maintaining a high level of quality.
• Learn and manage the sourcing of all ingredients for food production. Develop relationships with existing ingredient vendors and develop new ones as necessary to improve costs and quality.
• Manage the production schedule to meet sales forecasts and regular supply of products to our distributors and customers
• Manage the scheduling of labor and resources for production
• Manage the team of kitchen employees fostering individual and team growth and development
• Closely monitor and manage ingredient and packaging materials for production using available tools and integrating others as appropriate.
• Maintain all required regulatory and certification records including overseeing the pH testing and documentation for our cannery license.
• Have fun!

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $38,000.00 - $50,000.00

Application instructions

Deadline

February 25, 2019