The Employee Development Manager is responsible for improving the productivity of the brewery department’s employee. This position assesses brewery-wide developmental needs to drive training initiatives and identifies and arranges suitable training solutions for employees. This position actively searches, creatively designs, and implements effective methods to educate, enhance performance and recognize performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Ensures a culture that puts the safety and welfare of our employees ahead of all other goals.

• Leading and lagging indicators need to be managed and linked to actions that will reduce risk in the workplace.

• Leads manufacturing operating plans in accordance with company policies, goals and objectives.

• Assessing process capability, improving process control and instilling a culture of accountability will be a primary goal for this position.

• Implements Company policies such as attendance; over-time; safety; environmental; etc.

• Sets a high standard for ethics and compliance, ensuring business processes adhere to our business conduct policies and procedures.

• Develops and executes lean and flexible production systems based on Continuous Improvement principals, specifically TPM techniques across all manufacturing operations to lower manufacturing breakeven point.

• Executes plans for quality and process excellence that ensures consistent quality assurance and process excellence procedures, controls and feedback.

• Manages an effective team including hiring, motivating, evaluating, developing and counseling with career development.

• Adheres to operational budgets and coordinates capital plans, appropriation requests, and project follow up.

• Implement quarter-over-quarter improvement strategies to increase efficiency, spend performance, customer delivery and safety record.

• Lead by example that safety is a way of life and a passion for an injury-free workplace.

• Lead the implementation of tactics to achieve improvement in on-time delivery, yield improvement, scrap reduction, and productivity.

• Maintains conformance to budgetary limitations in all departments. Has P&L responsibility for assigned product line.

• Champions a clear channel of communication and coordination between functional counterparts in the business units – human resources, manufacturing, operations, and quality and external to business unit, customer service, sales, sales administration, technical services and distribution.

• Responsible for cross-functional coordination and specification of effective processes and standards for support departments.

• Confers with customers and representatives of associated industries to evaluate and promote improved and expanded services in applicable areas.

• Ensures that effective business unit systems, procedures and financial controls are established and maintained for the business unit’s operations.

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Analytical: Designs work flows and procedures.

Design: Generates creative solutions

Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner. Gathers and analyzes information skillfully. Works well in group problem solving situations.

Technical Skills: Pursues training and development opportunities. Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills. 

Customer Service: Manages difficult or emotional customer situations.

Interpersonal: Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming. Maintains confidentiality. Remains open to others’ ideas and tried new things.

Oral Communication: Listens and get clarification. 

Team Work: Balances team and individual responsibility. Gives and welcomes feedback. Contributes to building a positive team spirit. Puts success of team above own interests. Supports everyone’s efforts to succeed. Recognizes accomplishments to other team members.

Written Communication: Writes clearly and informatively. Edits work for spelling and grammar. Presents numerical data effectively.

Change Management: Develops workable implementation plans. Prepares and supports those affected by change.

Delegation: Matches the responsibility to the person.

Leadership: Exhibits confidence in self and others. Gives appropriate recognition to others. Mobilizes others to fulfill the vision.

Managing People: Includes staff in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvement. Makes self-available to staff. Provides regular performance feedback.   

Business Acumen: Aligns work with strategic goals.

Cost Consciousness: Works within approved budget.

Ethics: Treats people with respect. Keeps commitments. Inspires the trust of others. Works with integrity and ethically. Upholds organizational values.

Strategic Thinking: Understands organization’s strengths and weaknesses.

Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment. Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events. 

Dependability: Follows instructions, responds to management direction. Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.

Innovation: Displays original thinking and creativity. Meets challenges with resourcefulness.

Judgement: Displays willingness to make decision. Includes appropriate people in decision-making process.

Motivation: Sets and achieves challenging goals. Measures self against standard of excellence.

Qualifications:  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty 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 essential functions.

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Language Ability: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and responds to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Math Ability: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commission, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software. Project Management software; Spreadsheet software; Word Processing software.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervise and direct the work of Brewery department.

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 exposed to wet or humid conditions and working near moving mechanical parts.

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 stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and talk or hear.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.