Jobs at Winland Foods

Manage customer order fulfillment and communications, analyze inventory for high-volume customers, resolve order exceptions (OS&D), use ERP/Power BI for order and inventory visibility, and collaborate across commercial, supply chain, operations, finance, and IT to meet customer expectations.

The Production Supervisor leads and supervises production operations, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity while implementing continuous improvement strategies and managing teams.

The Food Safety and Quality Manager leads FS&Q activities at the manufacturing site, ensuring compliance, managing teams, and overseeing continuous improvement initiatives.

Manage customer relationships and deliver annual operating plans (AOP) including revenue, margin, forecasting, merchandising, pricing, and trade spend. Leverage analytics and cross-functional teams to drive distribution, assortment, and profitability. Own bid strategy, product portfolio inputs, and customer scorecard improvements. Remote role with up to 50% travel.

Lead regional/enterprise continuous improvement as a player-coach. Set standards and scorecards, coach plant and operations leaders, prioritize high-impact initiatives tied to OEE, productivity, cost, quality and capacity, govern accountability, validate savings, ensure usable data/tools, and scale best practices across multiple sites.

Leads plant quality assurance, food safety, and regulatory compliance programs in a 24/7 food manufacturing facility. Manages the quality department, develops improvement processes and performance metrics, reviews quality data, oversees internal and external audits, ensures regulatory compliance, supports food safety decisions, and trains and develops direct reports. Requires strong knowledge of food manufacturing, FDA and USDA regulations, thermal processes, allergens, and quality systems.

Performs food quality inspections, environmental swabbing, sensory and analytical testing, label verification, microbiological testing, and equipment checks. Maintains compliance with GMP, HACCP, SQF, FSMA, and company standards. Records quality results and inventory transactions in SAP, supports audits, investigates quality issues and complaints, assists with SOP training, and contributes to process improvement and 5S initiatives. The role requires collaboration with production and sanitation teams and the ability to work rotating weekends and physically demanding manufacturing shifts.

The Plant Manager leads overall manufacturing operations, budgets, safety, quality, food safety, productivity, cost control, equipment reliability, and employee engagement. Responsibilities include coaching plant personnel, executing operational and capital strategies, driving Lean continuous improvement, monitoring OEE and process performance, ensuring regulatory compliance, coordinating with suppliers and internal functions, and improving production outcomes. The role oversees non-union employees in a food manufacturing environment and may require periodic travel to other sites.

Support month-end close, prepare financial reports, analyze results, assist process improvements, and work on special projects. Gain experience with SAP/ERP, present findings to finance leadership, and rotate through manufacturing/distribution exposure during a summer internship.

Perform high-volume accounts payable tasks including invoice validation/indexing, exception resolution, payment processing (ACH/EFT, voids, stops), reconciliations, EDI/VIM exception handling, vendor payment support, and process improvements while collaborating across teams.

Lead all plant-level food safety and quality activities including sanitation, compliance, GFSI certification, audits, and PCQI responsibilities. Supervise FS&Q and sanitation teams, manage FS&Q plans (Food Safety, Defense, Quality), drive continuous improvement and KPI reporting, oversee SPC and SAP quality modules, support R&D testing, budgets, training, and incident response.

Supervise night-shift production staff to achieve production, quality, safety, and sanitation goals. Manage resources, resolve bottlenecks, enforce FDA/USDA food safety standards, support continuous improvement, and maintain production schedules. Lead teams, document quality issues, and ensure compliance with safety and sanitation procedures.

Repair, service, install, and modify processing and packaging equipment. Troubleshoot failures to minimize downtime, report equipment status and root causes, collaborate with production and maintenance teams, and support reliability and continuous improvement while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Lead second-shift production teams to ensure safety, quality, and productivity. Manage scheduling, training, SAP-driven production processes, downtime tracking, material inventory, rework, corrective actions, GMP/5S compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives to improve line stability and performance.

Manage customer order fulfillment and communications, analyze inventory for high-volume customers, use ERP/Power BI/EDI to monitor orders and inventory, resolve OS&D and recurring issues, coordinate across commercial, supply chain, operations, and IT to meet customer expectations.

The Controls Automation Engineer will resolve automation issues, develop best practices, assist in design and implementation of automation in food processing lines, and mentor others.

Manage customer relationships and deliver customer/region AOP, revenue and margin targets. Own forecasting, merchandising, trade spend and pricing initiatives; collaborate cross-functionally to develop plans, identify whitespace opportunities, support bids, and drive profitability while managing broker networks and customer satisfaction.

Drive month-end close and financial statement preparation, perform journal entries, account analysis and reconciliations, support budgeting, audits, SOX compliance, capital and profitability projects, maintain accounting systems/ERP integration, and provide analytical support to Plant Finance, Controllership, Shared Services, Engineering, and Operations reporting.

Manage P&L and budget for Ingredient, Co-Manufacturing & Foodservice Dry Pasta business. Develop and execute short- and long-term strategies, pricing, new product commercialization, and assortment decisions. Lead cross-functional teams (Sales, R&D, Finance, Supply) to deliver operating plans, launches, and continuous improvement while responding to sales opportunities and developing bids/proposals.

Summer internship in R&D and Innovation supporting new product and packaging development. Work on prototype creation, cost-savings, product renovation, ingredient evaluation, and cross-functional commercialization activities. Gain hands-on exposure to manufacturing, project management, presentation delivery, and teamwork while applying food science and packaging principles.