Supervisor, Apple Yard

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$70,304.00/yr - $80,214.00/yr

Since 1868, the Martinelli family has been producing award-winning apple juice. Located in the cool California Central Coast, the fertile Pajaro Valley produces the most flavorful apple varieties in the world. Since winning its first gold medal in 1890, Martinelli’s has received more than fifty gold medals for product excellence. Distribution of Martinelli’s Gold Medal® products now extends to every state in the U.S. and globally.

Reporting to the Apple Operations Manager, the Yard Supervisor will support the coordinating and scheduling of fruit deliveries from California and Northwest growers, cold storage sites, and other suppliers that meet quality and quantity requirements for daily juice production. This position will work with the Apple Operations Manager in promoting good working relationships with various growers, local cold storage companies, packing houses, and pre-pressed juice suppliers.

This job is also responsible for scheduling and supervising the apple yard crew, receivers & weigh masters, applying daily management protocols to ensure the safe and efficient handling of fruit movements, as well as ensuring the timely and accurate documentation of all fruit receipts, movements, and real-time inventory reporting.

• Plan and schedule apple fruit deliveries and Pre-Pressed Juice tankers in accordance with the production schedule on a daily/monthly, and yearly outlook.
• Provide strong service support and maintain good relationships to growers, ranch managers, brokers, cold storage operators, vendors, carriers, etc.
• Ensure proper receipt of inbound fruit and ensure compliance with QA standards.
• Track and maintain data for all apple lots as required to meet annual traceability audits, daily/monthly inventories.
• Process and approve daily/weekly/monthly receipts and invoices for payment.
• Monitor and ensure the real-time accuracy of inventory levels at all Martinelli on-site storage or staging locations. Collaborate with production and apple receiving staff to promote that accurate movement and use reporting is occurring daily.
• Work with appropriate agencies to ensure federal, state, and local governmental regulations and certifications are current.
• Monitor department processes, identify, recommend, and implement improvements that increase efficiency and performance in safety, cost, quality, and service.
• Efficiently schedule department crewing to support business and production requirements.
• Employ independent judgment to supervise, train, review, and work with the apple yard crew & Weigh masters to meet department goals;
• Enforce Collective Bargaining Agreement, Plant Rules, and Code of Safe Work Practices, including disciplinary action, if warranted, upon approval of management.
• Assist in developing apple procurement and orchard budgets, investigating material variances in actual vs. plan results, and taking corrective and preventative action where applicable.
• Partner with supply chain planning, QA, operations, and transportation logistics to build out the juice transportation program for juice transport inbound to Martinelli processing sites, including contract packaging partners.
• Serve as the Apple department's key technical resource for supporting and working with the company’s enterprise resource system, SAP S/4
  
  HANA.
• Assist the Apple Operations Manager to:
  Optimize yard inventories and space, cold storage, and fruit rotation to ensure the Gold Medal Standard is met.
• Develop and communicate a daily/weekly variety blend rotation for optimal juice taste.
• Plan and coordinate use of local cold storage facilities to optimize quality and duration of fruit storage against seasonal requirements while minimizing storage, handling, spoilage, and warehousing costs.
• Facilitate the local Tri-county harvest.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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