Website:
fondrechocolatier.com
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Company Description
Fondre Chocolatier is a specialty chocolate brand dedicated to crafting high-quality, artisanal chocolates with carefully selected ingredients. The company focuses on innovative flavors, elegant presentation, and consistent product quality to deliver a premium experience to its customers. Fondre Chocolatier values craftsmanship, attention to detail, and a passion for confectionery. Team members are encouraged to contribute creative ideas and uphold high standards in every aspect of production. The work environment supports collaboration, learning, and pride in creating memorable chocolate products.
Key Responsibility
- Lead and manage the day-to-day production of Fondre’s chocolates, including bonbons, bars, truffles, pralines, seasonal collections, and other confectionery products.
- Plan daily and weekly production according to sales requirements, stock levels, dispatch schedules, and upcoming launches.
- Supervise the production team and allocate responsibilities according to workload and skill levels.
- Ensure all products are manufactured according to approved recipes, specifications, production schedules, and SOPs.
- Maintain consistency in taste, texture, appearance, weight, finish, and overall product quality.
- Oversee key chocolate production processes including tempering, moulding, filling, enrobing, decorating, demoulding, packaging, and storage.
- Establish and maintain strict food safety, hygiene, sanitation, and workplace safety standards.
- Monitor production yields, wastage, rejects, rework, and material consumption.
- Maintain accurate production records, batch records, stock records, and quality-control documentation.
- Plan and monitor raw-material requirements and coordinate with the management/procurement team for timely availability of ingredients and packaging materials.
- Ensure proper storage conditions for chocolate, ingredients, finished products, and packaging materials.
- Monitor equipment performance and coordinate preventive maintenance and servicing whenever required.
- Identify production bottlenecks and implement practical solutions to improve productivity and efficiency.
- Train production associates in recipes, SOPs, hygiene, equipment handling, quality standards, and workplace discipline.
- Conduct regular quality checks at different stages of production.
- Ensure that only products meeting Fondre’s quality standards are released for dispatch.
- Coordinate with the Kolkata store, kitchen, beverage, sales, and management teams regarding production and dispatch requirements.
- Develop systems to reduce wastage while maintaining product quality and production efficiency.
- Maintain a clean, organised, safe, and professional factory environment.
- Report production performance, stock requirements, quality issues, wastage, equipment problems, and other operational concerns to management.
Basic Eligibility
- Previous experience in chocolate production, confectionery, bakery, pastry, food production, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of chocolate handling and confectionery production processes.
- Experience managing and supervising a production team.
- Good knowledge of food safety, hygiene, quality control, and production SOPs.
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to manage production schedules and meet deadlines.
- Good understanding of inventory, wastage, yield, and production costing.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to product consistency.
- Ability to train, supervise, motivate, and discipline a production team.
- Good communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
- Willingness to work in the Fondre production facility in Hooghly.
What we do
- Opportunity to lead the production operations of a growing premium chocolate brand.
- Exposure to artisanal chocolate production and product development.
- Opportunity to build and implement professional production systems.
- Career growth based on performance and operational excellence.
- A safe, respectful, and professional working environment.
What we're looking for
We are looking for a hands-on production leader who understands that premium chocolate requires precision, discipline, consistency, and patience. The ideal candidate should be comfortable managing people as well as processes and should take complete ownership of production quality, efficiency, hygiene, and timely fulfilment.
Apply by sending your resume to:
experience@fondrechocolatier.com
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