Production Coordinator (Badger Mountain Winery) Kennewick, WA

$52,000 - $62,400/Yr

Oregon Potato Company - Kennewick, WA

Full-time

Kennewick, WA

Food Manufacturing

About the position

The Production Coordinator at Badger Mountain Winery is responsible for overseeing logistics within the winery, ensuring that all components necessary for bottling wine are procured and organized efficiently. This role involves managing inventory, scheduling bottling operations, and maintaining supplier relationships, all while ensuring high-quality standards and minimizing waste.

Responsibilities

• Process PO's from numerous sources and ensure correct stock reaches its destination.
• Arrange shipments of cased wine to warehouses and generate export shipments.
• Create processes/procedures and make recommendations to reduce errors, increase efficiency, deliver the highest quality product possible, and minimize waste.
• Organize bottling schedule and prioritize weekly & monthly workflow.
• Participate in weekly production planning meetings.
• Create bottling spec sheet ensuring dry goods standards are clearly communicated to production team and correct items are used on bottling days.
• Order all supplies for bottling wine in time for bottling day.
• Contact suppliers to negotiate prices, spot billing errors, address supplier concerns, and relay supplier suggestions to concerned parties.
• Maintain supplier database with costing and historical data.
• Create and submit COLA's to TTB and WSDA.

Requirements

• BA or BS in Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Accounting, Business, or similarly related fields.
• Minimum 3 years logistics, accounting, export, procurement, or combination of experience.
• Able to perform basic math, convert from imperial to metric, understanding of and ability to compute rates and ratios.
• Able to read, create formulas, and manipulate spreadsheets in MS Excel.
• Familiar with MS Teams and MS office suite.
• Familiar with inventory management and accounting software.
• Excellent professional written and verbal communication.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving ability.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with TTB wine regulations highly desired.
• Familiarity with wine exports highly desired.
• Interest in wine highly desired.
• Willingness to learn new things and possessing a curious mindset.

Benefits

• Competitive pay ranging from $25.00 to $30.00 per hour depending on experience.