Department Head: AVOR

About the job

Company Description

The Stella Bernrain is a traditional Swiss family business with headquarters of Chocolat Bernrain AG in Kreuzlingen and Chocolat Stella SA in Giubiasco, specialising in the production of high-quality chocolate products.

With great care, passion for high-quality ingredients, and a sense for enjoyment, we create chocolate products that delight people. We combine traditional craftsmanship with modern production processes. Our teams work closely together, think in terms of quality, and consciously design processes efficiently.

Job Description

To strengthen and lead our AVOR team, we are looking for a Department Head: AVOR at the Kreuzlingen location.

You will take on the professional and personnel leadership of the department and ensure that production orders are prepared and implemented on time, economically, and with the required quality. In doing so, you will work closely with production, quality assurance, purchasing and sales, as well as planning.

Your Tasks

• Management of AVOR/planning and sampling with personnel leadership of the team (3 people), operational planning of a sub-area
• Overall responsibility for ensuring optimal production planning considering utilisation targets and capacities
• Optimisation and responsibility for planning processes in the ERP system
• Maintenance of master data in the ERP system regarding production- and planning-relevant data
• Feedback and follow-up control of production orders
• Overall responsibility for conducting inventories and their evaluations
• Leadership and participation in various committees
• Management and participation in projects
• Various smaller tasks such as material availability checks, best-before-date controls, slow movers, booking of e-shop items
• Close coordination with production, quality assurance, purchasing, sales, and logistics
• Planning and control of production orders considering capacities, deadlines, and material availability
• Ensuring compliance with hygiene, safety, and quality requirements
  
  SIBE – Safety Officer; additional function if possible
• Planning and coordination of training for all employees in the areas of safety, accident prevention, and behaviour in incidents
• Advising management and employees regarding occupational safety and enforcing the agreed measures
• Responsibility for compliance with regulations from labour law, SUVA, EKAS, and driving forward the improvement process for accident prevention
• Reporting the annual occupational accident statistics to the Chocosuisse ASA industry solution

Your Profile

• Completed training in a technical or food technology field, ideally with further education in production planning and leadership
• Several years in planning or work preparation, ideally in the food industry
• Initial leadership experience and a confident, appreciative manner
• Structured working style and high initiative
• Good collaboration and solution-oriented approach to many interfaces
• Good knowledge of ERP systems and MS Office
• Very good German language skills in spoken and written form are mandatory

We Offer

• Established Swiss food company, family business with a first-name culture
• Collegial, committed team with many years of high expertise
• Varied and meaningful tasks in a production company at the heart of chocolate manufacturing
• Employee discount in our ChocoShop on site
• Progressive employment conditions with many benefits for employees
• Collective labour agreement ( CLA ) and member of the Chocosuisse Association, Association of Swiss Chocolate Manufacturers
• Training company for food technologists and logisticians

Contact

Do you have questions about this position or would you like to learn more about our company? We look forward to exchanging ideas with you and to shaping the future of our work preparation together with you.

Only direct applications via our application tool will be considered.