Attention: Maintenance Professionals Seeking World Class Career Opportunities

A leading food manufacturer in the northwest suburbs of Chicago is seeking ambitious, career-minded maintenance professionals. Please send your resume for the following positions:

1. Maintenance Supervisor:

This position will be responsible for overseeing a team of maintenance mechanics to focus on preventing maintenance issues promptly and responsibly. The individual will troubleshoot, repair, and performance preventive maintenance on a wide variety of automated food processing equipment for multi-plant /multi-site facilities. The supervisor will oversee mechanics, and enforce quality, GMP’s, safety, production and maintenance policies, programs and SOPs.

Preferred Qualifications:  1 to 10 years experience in a hands-on supervisory role, within a food manufacturing company.  Computerized preventive maintenance program experience  Proven, hands-on preventive maintenance work experience (autonomous maintenance highly desirable)  A BS/BA in mechanical, electrical or industrial/manufacturing engineering or related experience.  Unionized work environment is a plus  PLC experience is highly desirable, but not required  Familiarity with dry food processing, packaging equipment and VFD’s

2. Maintenance Mechanic:

This position will be responsible for preventing maintenance issues promptly and responsibly. The individual will troubleshoot, repair, and performance preventive maintenance on a wide variety of automated food processing equipment for multi-plant /multi-site facilities. The individual will be required to adhere to GMP’s, safety, production and maintenance policies, programs and SOPs. He/she will work on electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic, PLC and pneumatic maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment. The role will support production workers in diagnosing malfunctions, dismantling, assembling, and installing industrial machinery.

Preferred Qualifications:  At least 2 years experience with hands-on mechanical and electrical skills, within a food manufacturing company.  Computerized preventive maintenance program experience is a plus  Proven, hands-on preventive maintenance work experience (autonomous maintenance highly desirable)  A High School diploma. Associates Degree or equivalent education is a plus.  Unionized work environment is a plus  PLC experience is highly desirable, but not required  Familiarity with dry food processing, packaging equipment and VFD’s is a plus.

Grecian Delight Foods, Inc. offers challenging career opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits. Interested candidates should submit their resume and qualifications via email to Grecian [email protected].

JOB TITLE: Director of Operations

DEPARTMENT: Operations

REPORT TO: Chief Operating Officer

DIRECT REPORTS: All Production managers, Plant Engineer, Maintenance Manager, Production Scheduling, Warehouse Manager, Bakery Operations Manager.

JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for providing leadership and direction to GDF’s Operations departments including production, production planning, inventory control, safety, warehousing, distribution, maintenance, engineering and customer service levels. With Food Safety as the top priority, this position will assure full utilization of the company’s assets and resources in order to achieve strategic goals for production at the lowest cost. Manage and oversee the efforts of multi-plant and multi-site production environments and enforce World Class Manufacturing (WCM) principles. Supports all six (6) of the Grecian Delight Core Values and ongoing Strategic Initiatives.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

I. PLANNING  Develop annual production operating plan/budget.  Assures that effective Preventive Maintenance schedules are developed and strictly enforced.  Establishes an effective capital budgeting process to support the company’s business and growth objectives.  Direct implementation of production and inventory plans permitting optimal utilization of capital resources, human resources and materials.  Initiate improvements to reduce costs and improve processes and productivity.  Lead and direct engineering projects for new production equipment, facility requirements and performance enhancements.  Select, develop, and maintain an efficient organization.  Lead a succession management plan for the operations organization. II. COORDINATION  Coordinate operation of multiple production plants and staff to achieve company’s  Strategic Initiatives and SMART objectives.  Implement and enforce all company policies including, but not limited to GMP’s, Quality Assurance, Safety, SQF and Sanitation. This role must support QA and Sanitation.  Work in collaboration with and in synergy with Quality Assurance to assure compliance and efficient production runs.

III. DIRECTION . Through subordinate managers, direct the day to day production activities of GDF. . Provide clear SMART objectives and direction to subordinates. . Set an example of professional integrity, credibility, quality performance and management urgency for others to follow. Live and enforce the Grecian Delight Core Values. . Effectively communicate position responsibilities, authority, accountability, and standards of performance to all subordinates. . Implement and sustain an enterprise-wide World Class Manufacturing (WCM) work environment. . Through follow-up and frequent status reviews with subordinate managers, assure that all initiatives, projects and processes are on schedule and completed effectively..

IV. CONTROLS I. Appraise, evaluate, and review operating results with the executive team on a regular basis. II. Develop systems to control inventories, labor costs, material costs, and production line efficiencies to assure achievement of lowest cost producer status (lean manufacturing principles).  Insure that machine reliability throughout the operations is consistently at very high levels through active preventive maintenance and sound engineering. III. Strictly adhere to all Quality imperatives and procedures for total support of the production of safe food products.

V. OTHER IV. Comply with any additional projects assigned by the COO or CEO. V. Participate in industry memberships in order to keep current with new manufacturing technologies and processes. VI. Implement an Autonomous Maintenance program within a WCE / WCM environment.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, EXEPRIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

 Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering is very highly preferred. Will consider BS in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Food Engineering or other related majors.  Subject Matter Expertise in SQF, GMP’s, HACCP, USDA and FDA regulations.  Specific knowledge of meat and bakery manufacturing processes is required.  Working knowledge of World Class Manufacturing standards including Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Quality Maintenance, Autonomous Maintenance, 6-Sigma and/or Continuous Improvement Methods. Must possess both strategic and hands-on manufacturing experience.  Knowledge of all Federal, State and local regulations pertaining to food products and food product manufacturing.  A Minimum of ten (10) years experience in a 3 - shift, food plant production environment and supervision of at least seven (7) to ten (10) management direct reports.  Excellent creative, analytical, communications, planning, team building and human resources skills.  Ten (10) to fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible experience in multi-plant and multi-site operations management, production planning/control and World Class Manufacturing (WCM) environment.  A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in both Meat and Bakery manufacturing industries.

JOB TITLE: Senior Director of Quality Assurance

DEPARTMENT: Quality Assurance

REPORTS TO: Chief Operating Officer

JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for directing and implementing the enterprise-wide quality assurance strategy. This includes, but is not limited to, the design and enforcement of company policies regarding the quality and safety of its food products and services.

The scope of this position includes all company endeavors in the areas of food product production and interactions with customers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 Directs, plans, coordinates and oversees the day-to-day food safety operation of the Quality Assurance Department.  Manages the departmental budget.  Hires and trains QA technicians and delegates responsibilities to them.  Equips the department and maintains technical equipment.  Maintains current food product specifications.  Maintains a current product “Hold” Log.  Maintains record-keeping of department efforts including results of all measurements, evaluations, and judgments.  Develops and plans company procedures for safe quality foods (SQF) across all production facilities and production rooms.  Leads or performs company self-inspections for sanitation, GMP’s, HACCP and food safety.  Develops and manages Process Control procedures.  Leads Sanitation department and manages 3rd-Party bakery sanitation partners  Leads and coordinates all customer and internal food safety audits.  Develops, manages and enforces HACCP program and compliance.  Certifies new raw material 3rd party vendors (facility inspections, product cuttings, etc.)  Conducts ongoing evaluations of 3rd party vendor products obtaining necessary internal feedback on performance and completion of expectations.  Receives, maintains, and implements product and processing specifications from customers.  Collaborates with production and GDF teams to respond promptly to customer problems and complaints.  Collaborates with Sales and Marketing teams to enhance customer visits and conduct manufacturing plant tours.  Receives and responds to technical questions from customers.  Collaborates with the Research and Development team in producing new products, including monitoring test batches, technical assistance with R&D specification writing, producing nutritional content information, and label development.  Assists production department with packaging, processing, formulation, and ingredient research as needed.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

 Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry, Food Processing, Food Engineering or related sciences.  Familiarity with basic food processing science, including but not limited to raw materials, packaging, formulation, processing equipment, and food preservation.  Subject Matter Expertise in GMP’s, HACCP, USDA and FDA regulations.  Specific knowledge of meat processing fundamentals required.  Specific knowledge of bakery processing fundamentals desirable.  Working knowledge of World Class Manufacturing standards including Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Quality Maintenance, 6-Sigma and Continuous Improvement Methods.  Knowledge of all Federal, State and local regulations as pertaining to food products and food product labeling  Understanding of basic statistical principles such as sampling plans, descriptive and predictive statistics, confidence intervals, and designs of experiments  Understanding of basic human nutrition, including analytical techniques, calculations, and food product labeling  A Minimum of ten (10) years experience in food plant production environment and management.

Grecian Delight Foods, Inc. Job Description Title: Purchasing Agent

Description: Responsible for the procurement of diversified commodities including ingredients, packaging, and finished goods in a multi-plant environment. Analyze and reconcile purchasing issues. Manage supplier relationships with integrity and professionalism. Critical to the success of the position is the ability to maintain inventories.

Duties: - Issue purchase orders for materials, supplies, and services as necessary to meet company’s financial goals. - Review inventories and expedite deliveries - Manage inventory levels to maximize inventory turns in a multi-plant environment - Ensure and enforce correct pricing, terms and conditions. - Maintain close working relationship with receiving and accounts payable to resolve delivery and invoicing issues. - Monitor supplier performance to assure the timely delivery of materials - Manage multiple projects over a diverse portfolio - Work independently - Work in cross functional high performing teams

Requirements: - Bachelor’s Degree - 3-5 years purchasing experience - Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems - Proficient in Microsoft Office - APICS, CPM, CPSM or APP - Customer Service Oriented - Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with suppliers and management - Strong sense of urgency - High level of accuracy and attention to detail - Must be motivated - Must be flexible, show initiative

Other Opportunities

Alliance Powder Group, Inc.

We are Alliance Powder Group, Inc., a recent start-up company located in Cary, Illinois. We install powder coating systems for the manufacturing sector. This involves the assembling of prefabricated materials and equipment at manufacturing locations across the country. Operations are being conducted by me and my wife, Michelle who is also co-owner of the company. She has an extensive business background and I bring over 28 years of experience in the manufacturing processes field. Our business objective is to become one of the major powder coating equipment installation companies in the United States. The powder coating process that is performed by these systems spray coats the outside surface of some metal product. The powder coating is applied with the use of electrostatic technology. Some companies have converted to this efficient technology but many are now in the process of converting from the old cumbersome and costly technology. This has presented a distinct opportunity for Alliance Powder Group, Inc. The leading manufacturer in the world in the field of coating equipment is Nordson Corporation which is based out of Amherst, OH. For 28 years I was employed by Nordson Corporation as one of their senior field engineers. Because of a large company cut back at the end of 2008, I accepted a retirement package and started my own powder coating equipment installation company. This enables us to accept the installation projects Nordson Corporation now could no longer take on because of the large reduction in their staff of field engineers. Since leaving Nordson Corporation I have established a working agreement with Nordson and many of their salespersons that assures Alliance Powder Group, Inc. will receive quote request for installation projects as soon as we have our team in place and are ready to work. So now I am looking for a several anointed people to join our team. All of the opportunities at this time are field projects and because we serve all 52 states, overnight stays and the ability to travel out of the state is required. Some of the skills and qualification we’re looking for are:  High school diploma or G.E.D., post high school education or training a plus.

 Basic electrical knowledge (must be comfortable working around electricity even though a license is not required) which includes termination of wiring, running flex-tite and the ability to read electrical drawings.

 Mechanical skills, able to read mechanical drawings.

 Must be able to lift forty pounds,

 Must have working knowledge and physical ability to work with hand tools and power tools.

 Must understand work place safety, OHSA certification a plus.

 Fabrication skills, being able to work with lite metals, plastics, able to read drawings.

 All workers must have good people skills, work well with others, own an insured dependable vehicle and be available to travel.

 Forklift operation experience is a plus.

 Rigging skills a plus.

 A willingness to work and seek advancement in the company a plus.

 Self-starter who is a team player.

Anyone who comes onboard at this time will be considered an independent contractor, until work load picks up and the company can take on permanent full time employees, at which time the current workers can apply for foreman positions. Office positions to open following company expansion. Interested persons will need a resume’ and cover letter. Tom if you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Whatever help you can provide at this time is much appreciated.

Contact: Cortland E. Turner, C.E.O. Alliance Powder Group, Inc. Office: 847-462-1006 Fax: 847-462-1476 Cell: 224-406-0439 E-mail: [email protected] Another Valuable Resource