Flight Operations Manager jobs in Texas

Sojo Industries (“Sojo“) is a fast-growing national industrial automation company that utilizes robotics, mobility, and software to deliver efficient packaging and assembly solutions to the food and beverage industry.

Sojo Flight, Sojo utilizes its proprietary mobile manufacturing offering to eliminate freight costs, labor costs, packaging costs and harmful emissions by delivering on-site packaging services. Sojo has also developed its own proprietary blockchain-based track and trace software platform, Sojo Shield, which utilizes sophisticated data capture and geo-location technologies to enable customers to comply with federally mandated food safety requirements.

Sojo manages a national footprint of bricks and mortar facilities across the country in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California and Texas and maintains mobile manufacturing sites in Indiana, Colorado and Utah. All locations rely on high-speed automated lines that support a variety of packaging materials such as registered shrink, top loaded boxes, and side loaded cartons to name a few and incorporate robotics into the assembly process.

The Sojo team is comprised of seasoned executives and operators from the food and beverage industry and customers include Fortune 500 brands, distributors, and manufacturers

Job Summary:

The Flight Manager - Mobile Operations will report directly to the Sr Flight Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing operations at several customer facilities.

• Daily production measured by output per day and machine uptime

• Daily scheduling of production based on weekly capacity plan

• Daily management of forklift operations to support production activity

• Daily management of ERP and WMS system related to line production

• Startup of multiple/new locations based on engineering and design parameters following FAT

• Management of team performance based on metrics and KPIs across multiple locations

• Maintain and track daily labor hours by line associate to support invoice reconciliation

• Support and coordination with capacity planning and scheduling functions

• Maintain and follow all local site safety and quality related functions

• Training of production team in all areas

• (Oversight) Ordering all warehouse supplies (PPE, glue, shrink wrap, etc.)

• Management of spare parts and supplies

• Engage with Sojo Maintenance on routine and ad-hoc maintenance and repair

• All other duties as directed by Senior Flight Manager

• Production management: 5 years (Required)

• Management: 5 years (Required)