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Production Kitchen Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/22/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Amsterdam, Netherlands
In Person
Manufacturing & Production Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • Be visible, honest, clear, and consistent when engaging and leading people.
  • Move comfortably between operational details on the production floor and broader business goals, acting quickly while thinking structurally.
  • Continuously improve processes, waste, throughput time, and performance.
  • Maintain standards with the team, understand critical control points, and intervene when risks arise.
  • Use dashboards, reports, and planning data to make evidence-based decisions.
  • Create stability, rhythm, and ownership, supporting colleagues' development.
  • Build effective collaboration across quality, engineering, planning, and production.
Responsibilities
  • Lead daily start-up meetings, distribute work, set priorities, and respond to delays or equipment failures.
  • Be visible on the production floor and direct team leaders, operators, and support services toward results; serve as a point of contact for the technical service and quality staff.
  • Promote and maintain a culture of safety, discipline, openness, and accountability.
  • Develop and implement improvement actions with the team, including reducing changeover times and waste.
  • Track and analyze output, yield, waste, and rejects; report to leadership and make data-based proposals.
  • Ensure food safety and quality standards, check quality records, monitor hygiene and HACCP, and prepare for audits.
  • Translate forecasts and orders into a feasible production plan and monitor it daily based on customer needs and staff availability.
  • Act as the primary contact for audits, deviations, and escalations.
  • Manage operational HR work, including workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, and coaching, to maintain a flexible and engaged team.
  • Oversee ordering of ingredients and packaging, inventory, and capacity, coordinating with procurement, logistics, and other departments.
  • Advise management on investments, capacity constraints, and improvement initiatives.

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