Production Technician Leadperson

FRESH. FORWARD. FLOWERS.

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:

FLO) is not just about baking; it's about crafting moments of joy with every delicious bite. With 2024 sales of $5.1 billion, Flowers Foods is a leading producer of packaged bakery goods in the United States. Flowers Foods brands include Nature's Own, Wonder, Dave's Killer Bread, Canyon Bakehouse, and Tastykake. The company fosters a culture that values honesty & integrity, respect & inclusion, sustainability, passion, and humility.

Flowers Foods is committed to innovation and success.

Full-time employees are offered the following benefits
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• Comprehensive health and medical benefits
• 401(k) Retirement savings plan
• Professional growth and leadership training
• Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave

Benefits may vary depending on your work location.

Bringing Home the Dough

Directs the operation of shift production, including training, checking formulas, directing work tasks, monitoring procedures and schedules to ensure adherence to standards. Operates various plant equipment, performs sanitation and preventative maintenance duties. Assists supervisors in the operations of shift production. Position requires demonstration of competency for all on-the-job activities that may have a direct or indirect effect on product safety, legality and/or quality.

• Ensures that production employees are properly instructed and trained in the care and safe operations of equipment.
• Reviews records and procedures to ensure proper use of time and materials. Performs continuous inspection of products to ensure quality standards are met.
• Ensures that all equipment is in good operating condition.
• Plans and adjusts work assignments of personnel to cover all phases of production.
• Position may be responsible for operating the facility metal detector(s). Operator must be fully trained and certified.
• Promotes positive relations and interdepartmental communication and cooperation.
• Ensures a safe working environment for all personnel through enforcement of safety policies and procedures, including inspections and periodic safety meetings.
• Assists production supervision as required.
• May occasionally work in place of employees out sick, on vacation, etc.
• Checks production work schedule for job assignment and work reporting times.
• Maintain cleanliness of work area.
• Ensure compliance with all company rules, policies and procedures (EEO, Sexual Harassment, Safety, Sarbanes Oxley, etc.).
• Complete AIB Master Baker Correspondence Course.
• Performance of other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.

Two (2) or more years experience as a production technician.

High School diploma or equivalency plus two (2) years of college, a vocational-technical degree, and/or equivalent technical military certification/training. Completion of AIB bakery program.

Salary Range - $27.50/hr - $28.84/hr

We offer a competitive salary and an excellent total rewards package. Hourly range of $27.50/hr-$28.84/hr please reply by 03.01.2026. Interested job seekers who successfully complete the series of pre-screening questions and who appear to possess the basic qualifications for this position may be contacted for a telephone interview.

Flowers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Flowers encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or people of any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The job description above outlines the general nature and level of work expected from employees within this classification.

It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this position. Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.

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