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Company Description Wonderful Citrus is North America's leading integrated grower, shipper and ... Experience managing production operations, employees, budgets and KPIs. * Strong knowledge of ...

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Company Description Wonderful Citrus is North America's leading integrated grower, shipper and ... Experience managing production operations, employees, budgets and KPIs. * Strong knowledge of ...

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Company Description Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds is the largest vertically integrated pistachio ... Operations Management: * Achieve production goals on time, in a safe and waste-free manner.

Company Description Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds is the largest vertically integrated pistachio ... Operations Management: * Achieve production goals on time, in a safe and waste-free manner.

Company Description Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds is the largest vertically integrated pistachio ... Operations Management: * Achieve production goals on time, in a safe and waste-free manner.

Plant Manager

California, MO · On-site

$170 - $190/hr

... Wonderful is committed to unleashing the antioxidant power of our handpicked pomegranates.We are seeking a motivated and results-driven Plant Manager to oversee all operational activities at our ...

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Wonderful Jobs Information

What makes Wonderful an attractive place to work?

Wonderful is a leading manufacturer of frozen potato products, operating in the food industry with a strong reputation for quality and innovation. The company's workplace culture values collaboration, employee development, and a commitment to excellence, creating an environment where employees can grow professionally and contribute to the company's success. Joining Wonderful offers opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful impact in the food industry, develop their skills, and be part of a dynamic team that drives innovation and growth.

Do workers at The Wonderful Company get paid breaks?

Yes. Most people get paid breaks.
82% of people say they get paid breaks.
Based on data from 11 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between January 2025 and December 2025.

Does The Wonderful Company pay people when they’re sick?

Yes. Most people get paid when they’re sick.
80% of people say they would get paid if they were sick but scheduled to work.
Based on data from 10 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2025.

At The Wonderful Company, are sick days and vacation days separate paid time off?

Sick days and vacation days are separate paid time off.
100% of people say they don’t have to use vacation days when they’re out sick.
Based on data from 6 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and December 2025.

Is the health insurance from The Wonderful Company affordable enough for their workers?

Most people say the health insurance costs are okay.
88% of people say the health insurance costs are okay
Based on data from 8 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and December 2025.

Do people get paid time off at The Wonderful Company?

Most people get paid time off work.
88% of people say they get paid time off.
Based on data from 8 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and December 2025.

Do workers at The Wonderful Company worry about hours?

Some people worry about getting enough hours.
50% of people report they worry about getting enough hours.
Based on data from 10 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between January 2025 and July 2025.

Do The Wonderful Company workers get to choose the shifts they work?

Most people don’t get to choose which shifts they work.
82% report that they don’t have enough control over which shifts they work.
Based on data from 11 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between January 2025 and August 2025.

How easy is it for The Wonderful Company workers to change shifts?

Most people find it hard to change shifts.
100% of people report that it’s hard to change shifts if they need to.
Based on data from 5 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between February 2025 and August 2025.

How easy is it to get time off at The Wonderful Company?

Most people find it easy to get time off.
70% of people report it’s easy to get time off.
Based on data from 10 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do The Wonderful Company managers change schedules at the last minute?

Most managers don’t change people’s schedules at the last minute.
70% of people say their manager doesn’t change their shift schedule at the last minute.
Based on data from 10 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between January 2025 and July 2025.

Do jobs at The Wonderful Company spill into time workers aren’t paid for?

Rarely. The job doesn't usually spill into unpaid time.
0% of people report that their job takes up time that they don’t get paid for.
Based on data from 11 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between January 2025 and August 2025.

How easy is it to take sick days at The Wonderful Company?

Most people find it easy to take sick days.
85% of people report that it’s easy to take time off if they are sick.
Based on data from 13 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do people at The Wonderful Company feel treated with respect by their managers?

Most people feel treated with respect by their managers.
77% of people say they’re treated with respect by their managers.
Based on data from 13 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do people at The Wonderful Company get to take their breaks without interruption?

Most people get breaks without interruption.
85% of people report that they get to take their breaks without interruption.
Based on data from 13 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Is it stressful to work at The Wonderful Company?

Most people feel stressed here.
71% of people say they often feel stressed at work.
Based on data from 14 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do people at The Wonderful Company enjoy their jobs?

Most people enjoy their job.
67% of people report they enjoy their job.
Based on data from 9 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do people at The Wonderful Company recommend working with their team?

Not many people recommend working with their team.
71% of people report that they wouldn’t recommend working with their immediate team to a friend.
Based on data from 14 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do people get enough training when they start at The Wonderful Company?

Most people didn’t get enough training when they started.
73% of people report they didn’t get enough training when they started working here.
Based on data from 11 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.

Do people get support to advance at The Wonderful Company?

Only some people are given support to advance their career here.
In the last year, 58% of people report not being given support to advance their career here.
Based on data from 12 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and August 2025.

Do people think The Wonderful Company’s headquarters understands what’s happening where they work?

Most people think headquarters doesn’t understand what’s happening where they work.
82% of people think that this employer’s headquarters or owners don’t have a good understanding of what’s really happening where they work.
Based on data from 11 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2025.

Do workers feel well informed about how The Wonderful Company is doing?

Only some people feel well informed about how the company is doing.
57% of people feel that they aren’t kept well informed about how the company is doing as a whole.
Based on data from 14 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and December 2025.
Infographic showing various Operations Manager job openings at Wonderful in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 98% Full Time, 1% Part Time, and 1% Temporary. Highlights an 77% Physical, 9% Hybrid, and 14% Remote job distribution.

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 3 days ago

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The Wonderful Company rating

6.5

Company rating: 6.5 out of 10

Based on 14 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

288th of 445 rated food and drinks producers


Job description

Company Description
Wonderful Citrus is North America's leading integrated grower, shipper and packer of fresh citrus, including clementines/mandarins, navel and Valencia oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, and other citrus varieties. Wonderful Citrus farms more than 74,000 acres of fresh citrus and has supplier relationships around the world to ensure a year-round supply. Our citrus can be found in all channels of distribution, with our consumer brands most visible in the produce department of grocery stores across the globe under our flagship consumer brands, Wonderful Halos Mandarins, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, and Wonderful Sweet Scarletts Texas Red Grapefruit.
Job Description
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Own daily plant execution and production schedule; maximize throughput while balancing quality, maintenance and labor requirements.
  • Plans and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
  • Develop budget and cost controls, and obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of parts and equipment ordered.
  • Coordinate operations with agriculture/fruit supply, planning, quality, engineering, maintenance, warehouse, logistics and commercial teams.
  • Confer with management to establish production KPIs and how they are monitored and reported.
  • Maximize juice, pulp, oil and other valuable product recovery from incoming fruit; investigate losses and process inefficiencies.
  • Reviews and analyzes production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.
  • Develop and implement operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality. Ensure these methods are documented and trained as per company standards.
  • Conducts meetings to resolve or effectively reach a settlement of grievances and refers unresolved grievances to the human resources department.
  • Ensure production data is accurately entered into the ERP systems in a timely manner.
  • Lead root-cause analysis and improvement projects; eliminate recurring losses and bottlenecks; promote Lean/CI principles.
  • Partner with maintenance to improve equipment reliability; prioritize critical work; ensure preventive/predictive maintenance is executed; reduce emergency work.
  • Partner with food safety and quality to ensure compliance with internal polices, complete corrective actions in a timely manner, or any other task required to meet GFSI expectations.
  • Lead production; develop supervisors; establish accountability and succession planning.
  • Establish a strong safety culture; ensure OSHA compliance; enforce LOTO, confined space, chemical/ammonia, PPE and other programs; drive incident investigations and corrective actions.
  • Ensure compliance with HACCP/FSMA, sanitation and GMP programs; maintain audit readiness; ensure deviations are properly controlled and documented.
  • Be the subject matter expert for teams for the operations aspect of the business, supporting CAPEX, maintenance and FSQA.
  • Effectively present operations related projects, initiatives, performance results, and other key updates to business leadership and employees.

NOTE: The Director of Operations, at any time, depending on the needs of the company, could add other duties.
FOOD SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • The employee shall be responsible for all reasonable measures and precautions to ensure compliance with 21CFR 117, FSMA, Juice HACCP, GFSI standards and process controls within their department.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • This job has 2 departments reporting to it, juice processing and feedmill. This position schedules all operations supervisory employees' vacations and work schedules. This position is also required to work out any major employee disputes and perform annual employee evaluations.

Qualifications
Here's what you'll bring to the table:
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and significant manufacturing leadership experience.
  • 8-10 years of progressive manufacturing experience.
  • 5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience.
  • Experience managing production operations, employees, budgets and KPIs.
  • Strong knowledge of industrial safety, quality systems and manufacturing processes.
  • Demonstrated experience improving safety, quality, reliability, productivity and cost.
  • Strong analytical, communication and organizational skills.
  • Computer literacy: Microsoft Suite, Power BI, etc.
  • Have the ability to travel domestically and internationally. (~10%)

Preferred qualifications:
  • Engineering, Food Science, Operations or related technical degree.
  • 10-15+ years manufacturing experience.
  • Previous Plant Manager or Operations Manager experience.
  • Food/beverage or citrus processing experience.
  • HACCP/PCQI training.
  • Lean/Six Sigma training or certification.
  • Experience with sanitary processing, CIP and thermal processing.
  • Experience managing a facility with refrigeration, boilers, wastewater and other significant utilities.
  • Experience with capital projects and plant expansions.
  • Bilingual: English/Spanish

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, speak, hear, taste and smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. This position may require long hours including working weekends and nights.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
As a member of the production team, this employee will be working in a manufacturing environment and therefore may occasionally be exposed to fumes, reagents and solvents, or airborne particles. This environment may also be noisy, hot or cold. The ability to stand for long periods of time is essential. Safety glasses, hearing protection and other personal protective equipment must be worn as specified in designated areas.
Additional Information
Wonderful's dedication to you:
  • Competitive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, 401k
  • Continued training and generous Education Reimbursement Program
  • Paid sick, vacation and holiday time
  • Wonderful Giving (www.wonderfulgiving.com) -- allowing you to donate company money to a cause of your choice

Why Choose Wonderful?
Wonderful Citrus is part of The Wonderful Company, a privately held $6 billion global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world. Its iconic brands include FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, Teleflora, and JUSTIN and Lewis Cellars wines. The Wonderful Company's connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back in its DNA.
To learn more about The Wonderful Company, its products, and its core values, please visit wonderful.com, or follow The Wonderful Company on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. To learn more about the company's corporate social responsibility impact, visit csr.wonderful.com.
Wonderful Citrus and The Wonderful Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and with opportunities for advancement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.
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