Company description

At Cafe Spice, our mission is to bring clean, authentic, artisanal meals right to your table—so you can experience adventurous eating wherever you are.

Finding the balance between doing what you love and making time for fresh, healthy food is a challenge. Having origins in New York City, we understand how valuable your time is. That’s why we want to make it as easy as possible for you to access clean, nutritious food, and keep living your life.

We cook all of our meals in our USDA-certified facility in New York’s Hudson Valley. Making, managing and producing everything—from meats to veggies to spices—gives us the ability to deliver you the highest quality meals, always.

We’re also passionate about giving back to the planet, and building communities around food. That’s why we work with Whole Planet Foundation and Hudson Valley Food Bank to uplift underprivileged groups through the power of clean food. We’re also partners with the Global Animal Partnership, one of the largest animal welfare food labeling programs in North America, and the first prepared meal to be a part of the ASPCA’s Shop With Your Heart community which works with brands to improve the welfare of farm animals.

Our planet has so much to offer in terms of ingredients, flavors and culture. It’s our mission to bring those exotic flavors and clean food right to you—so you can add more adventure to your life.

Job description

About Us:

For over 20 years, Cafe Spice has been (and still is!) one of the leading brands in the Indian food category space. Our prepared meals and food service offerings have brought boldly delicious flavors to Deli/Prepared Foods sections in grocery stores all over the country. We are a culinary-driven company with a background in fine dining, manufacturing, and CPG. We pride ourselves on our values, culinary excellence and innovation, and a strong commitment to quality. With countless new ventures on the horizon, now is the perfect time to be joining our growing team! Working at Cafe Spice, you’ll be able to learn and grow with a support system that will help you achieve your career goals and seize any opportunities that may come your way. We are a hard-working team that uses our love for food to innovate and bring the Cafe Spice brand, and all we have to offer, to the forefront. If this opportunity sounds interesting to you, apply today! We would love to get to know you more.

Summary:

The Packaging Manager is responsible to directly supervise daily packaging operations, manage employees and quality/accuracy of product, maintain and troubleshoot packaging machines and equipment.

Essential Duties:

• Responsible for packaging special, wholesale and retail orders.
• Responsible for schedules and training of all Packaging staff members.
• Oversees that all packaging and stocking equipment is functioning properly.
• Prepare final reports and review all complete filling records for accuracy and compliance prior to QA submission
• Ensures that quality and demands are met.
• Records daily inventory and shortages on outgoing orders.
• Regulates proper temperature for foods and shipping coolers.
• Double checks the printed labels.
• Ensures proper sealing of food and box to stock or go out.
• Regularly meets with supervisors to assess and address productivity and quality issues as they arise on the production floor.
• Coordinates with the food packaging sales managers to ensure they meet the production quota and quality levels as promised to clients.
• Manages the effective cleaning and maintenance of the equipment used in the Packaging Department.
• Ensures a safe work environment by emphasizing safety training and safe actions.
• Recommends, implements and with partnership from Human Resources enforces company policies and procedures.

• Strive for a well-trained and motivated staff through excellent leadership and communication skills. Coordinate with Production Managers and Supervisors/Line Leads to ensure employee performance reviews are conducted, reflecting accurate goals and performance.
• Schedule and conduct plant meetings with production and related staff
• Manage cost and manufacturing components such as package material, raw ingredients, fixed and variable labor, quality, efficiency, reliability, GMPs, safety, sanitation, and regulatory compliance

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree; and/or 4 years of Experience in the Food Industry in similar role; Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), HACCP, and Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); Budgeting and Cost Control; Strong Leadership and People Management skills, Interpersonal skills and Demonstrated Project/Team management capabilities that can meet aggressive deadlines; Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline