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You Can Make a Difference at Bueno Foods

Bueno Foods is about people. It's a place that is color and gender-blind, where opportunity abounds for those who meet the challenge. It's a place that seeks to create an environment where people feel part of the team. It's a place where mutual respect, honesty, and fairness are valued and practiced on a daily basis. Bueno Foods' purpose is to have a positive influence on people's lives. In the past seven decades, Bueno Foods has grown from a company with 5 employees to one with over 300. We believe that our success is due to the active participation of each and every employee. We believe in working hard and doing a job to the best of our abilities. We encourage and expect all to contribute their ideas and to be active participants in accomplishing the company's goals. We strive to provide an environment where each of us can realize our potential.
 Come share your talents and energies and make a difference. Join the Bueno Foods' family.

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Job Location:  Albuquerque

Job Description & Responsibilities:  We are looking for a couple of Merchandisers who will be responsible for stocking up product, stock rotation of product and customer service support on retail store accounts.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Service Customer accounts by merchandising stored product to meet minimum inventory levels.
  • Follow schematics / Modular/ POG
  • Responsible for in store stock rotation.
  • Prepares stales, unsellable for Driver to pick up.
  • Conducts store checks and puts back stock product on shelves.
  • Communicates customer account problems to supervisor and/or manager.
  • Responsible for inventory accountability.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Experience with DSD/retail/merchandising sales preferred.
  • Ability to lift 50 pounds.
  • Ability to handle two wheeled dolly with loads up to 150 lbs.
  • Responsible for pricing gun.
  • Valid/current driver's license and good driving record with no DWIs.

EDUCATION:

  • High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.

Job Status:  Full time 

Compensation:  Starting at $15.00/hr + mileage reimbursement

Benefits:  PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays

Work Schedule:  

  • Tuesday - Saturday : 5am - 1pm (Sunday and Monday off)
  • Thursday - Monday: 5am - 1pm (Tuesday and Wednesday off)

Travel:  No

Job Location:  Albuquerque

Job Description & Responsibilities:  We are looking to hire a Facilities Technician II who repairs and maintains the facility in good working order.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provides support for facilities management.
  • Provides minor mechanical service on selected plant systems.
  • Follows Facilities Schedule daily.
  • Picks up and delivers parts as directed.
  • Repairs machines and mechanical equipment related to facilities upkeep.
  • Orders replacement parts and reassembles machines and equipment related to facilities upkeep.
  • Performs minor carpentry duties.
  • Performs small construction repairs such as minor painting, FRP installation plumbing, and sheetrock repair as needed.
  • Completes work assignments for facilities and completes all PM’s and Maintenance Job Tickets assigned and completes information to track expenses and man hours.
  • Responsible for fire prevention duties according to established policies and procedures.
  • Maintains grounds irrigation system repairs, lawn, and landscaping as requested by supervisor.
  • Maintains and upkeeps Bueno Foods outside facilities.
  • Responsible for assisting in pest control monitoring.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • One year experience in Facilities Maintenance or one season as a mechanic helper for direct production line support preferred.
  • Experience with electrical work preferred.
  • Experience in diagnostics preferred.
  • Experience with MJT programs and systems preferred.
  • Experience with preventative maintenance programs or systems preferred.
  • Experience with safety and lockout programs and systems preferred.
  • Has own hand tools preferred.
  • Experience with forklift safety and PM programs.
  • Ability to routinely lift up to 100 pounds.
  • Valid/Current Class D drivers’ license and a clean driving record.

EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING:

  • High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
  • Formal apprenticeship or formal training in industrial trades at a certified trade school or program, preferred.

Job Status:  Full time 

Compensation:  From $18.00/hr

Benefits:  PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays

Work Schedule:  Monday - Friday :  7:00 am - 3:30 pm

Travel:  No

Job Location:  Albuquerque

Job Description & Responsibilities:  We are looking to hire a Maintenance Manager who plans, directs and organizes the work activities of the maintenance department in support of maintenance and plant operations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Primarily responsible for production equipment, forklifts, and specified equipment infrastructure maintenance and repair.
  • Responsible for equipment uptime and providing excellent service to internal customers, primarily production and warehouse departments.
  • Responsible for equipment maintenance and repair expenses.
  • Responsible for staff and other maintenance expenses; effectively utilizes resources.
  • Plans, schedules and executes maintenance and repair related activities.
  • Schedules work assignments, ensures work assignments are completed and properly documented.
  • Develops and schedules preventative maintenance (PM) tasks. Reviews documentation provided by mechanics and provides feed back to them.
  • Responsible for training mechanics in all departments on new and current pieces of equipment.
  • Acts as a resource, both technically and administratively for department employees.
  • Responsible for ordering replacement parts and maintaining an accurate inventory of necessary parts.
  • Responsible for safety of staff and equipment.
  • Measures performance of the department and achieves KPI goals including budget.
  • Communicates, enforces and complies with company policies.
  • Communicates, enforces, complies with and develops company procedures.
  • Communicates Food Safety information to staff as required.
  • Manages all people in the department: development, training, monitors and improves performance, evaluate, discipline, and motivate.
  • Interacts and complies with governmental regulatory agencies.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum 3 years experience.
  • 1 year management experience.
  • 1 year manufacturing management experience preferred.
  • Experience developing budgets, tracking and managing expenses, to remain within budget.
  • Ability to communicate in Spanish.
  • Organized, good planner, execution oriented.
  • Ability to take general directions and goals and make specific plans and executes these.
  • Good with people, good communicator, ability to motivate staff and obtain superior performance from them, ability to correct problems.
  • Ability to detect problems or errors and solve them.
  • Ability to thoroughly organize, execute and maintain a wide variety of project simultaneously.
  • Computer skills.
  • Ability to perform mathematical calculation in percentages, ratios and basic algebra.

EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING:

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • College degree in related field preferred.
  • Basic training in fundamentals of management and supervisory techniques.

Job Status:  Full time 

Compensation:  From $100,000.00 annually.

Benefits:  PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays

Work Schedule:  Monday - Friday regular business hours with occasional weekend days.

Travel:  No

Job Location:  Albuquerque

Job Description & Responsibilities:  We are looking to hire a  Production Scheduler who will monitor and research inventory levels and schedule production.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Monitors inventory levels and sales projections of finished goods.
  • Schedules production based on inventory levels, sales projections, production capabilities, storage capacity, sales priorities and coordinates all activities surrounding this.
  • Prepares batch tickets and materials requisition in preparation of production runs.
  • Generates information for purchasing to bring in materials needed for production runs.
  • Conducts long range production planning.
  • Generates reports based on activities.
  • Produces and upkeep tools to assist with scheduling, reporting, and other functions.
  • Assists with data input functions in Materials.
  • Verifies daily production data for accuracy and completion.
  • Maintains database with incoming inspection results.
  • Tracks and monitors product on hold.
  • Assists with researching inventory variances.
  • Commits sales orders for WH
  • Conducts daily operations meetings to communicate schedule, stock outs, and discuss operations issues.
  • Prepares and distributes reports.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum of 2 years production scheduling experience.
  • Advanced skills with Excel spreadsheets and word processing programs.
  • Experience with accounting, manufacturing, inventory, or database programs preferred.
  • Experience with computer database systems such as Access and MAS 500 preferred.
  • Excellent leadership, problem solving, communication, follow-up, and organizational skills required.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision: self-disciplined, organized, self-directed, responsible.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in writing in order to convey or communicate information.
  • Ability to analyze and resolve complex problems.
  • Ability to review and prepare detailed reports.
  • Ability to detect and trace errors.

EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING:

  • 4 year degree preferred.

Job Status:  Full time 

Compensation:  Starting at $60,000.00 per year, DOE

Benefits:  PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays

Work Schedule:  Monday - Friday, regular business hours

Travel:  No

Job Location:  Las Vegas, NM

Job Description & Responsibilities:  We are looking to hire a Route Sales Representative who will be responsible for direct route sales and customer service support.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Outside Sales
  • Pre-sells and services designated retail accounts by direct customer contact.
  • Meets sales goals as designated by management.
  • Increases sales volume.
  • Actively seeks out and prospects new accounts.
  • Responsible for making sales presentations, developing and implementing promotional activities.
  • Ensures that products are correctly priced at retail accounts - frontline and when on promotion.
  • Executes company sales and promotional programs with assigned accounts.
  • Communicates sales orders for order processing and delivery scheduling.
  • Resolves customer order problems.
  • Responsible for inventory accountability as determined by department manager.
  • Responsible for managing proper rotation and facing of stock and ensuring fresh stock on store shelves.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum of 1-year route sales or grocery experience preferred.
  • Must submit to and be in compliance with any tests/regulations as required by DOT (Department of Transportation) regulations.
  • Ability to learn and apply sales and marketing techniques.
  • Ability to learn inventory control systems, stock rotation and perishable product handling techniques.
  • Ability to learn invoicing techniques.
  • Valid/current driver's license and a good driving record with no DWI's.
  • Ability to drive a bobtail delivery truck, step van, with automatic or manual transmission.
  • Ability to input orders, retrieve data and prepare reports.

EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING:

  • High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Job Status:  Full time

Compensation: 

  • $10,000.00 base + 4.5 % commission on sales ($40,000.00 - $48,000.00 annually)

Benefits:  PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays

Work Schedule:  Monday - Friday:  Early start until route is completed.

Route:  Las Vegas, Santa Rosa, Tucumcari, Pecos

Job Location:  Albuquerque

Job Description & Responsibilities:  We are looking to hire a couple Industrial Maintenance Mechanics who will be responsible for repairs and maintaining machines and equipment in good working order.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provides major mechanical service on all plant machinery.
  • Completes training assignments and all documentation needed for tracking purposes.
  • Repairs machines and mechanical equipment. Tracks expenses and man-hours.
  • Trouble shoots electrical, mechanical and electronic equipment to diagnose source of trouble.
  • Performs electrical duties including the replacement of panel components and troubleshoots electrical and electronic devices.
  • PLC experience, and repairing and replacing motor drives and other electrical and electronic components preferred.
  • Orders replacement parts and reassembles machines and equipment.
  • Completes work assignments from PMs and completes information to track expenses and man-hours.
  • MJT experience preferred.
  • Responsible for fire prevention duties according to established policies and procedures

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum 3 years experience as equipment mechanic preferred.
  • Food manufacturing environment preferred.
  • Experience with troubleshooting mechanical, electrical systems required.
  • Experience with, or knowledge, of single phase electricity required.
  • Experience with preventative maintenance programs or systems, preferred.
  • Experience with, or knowledge, of HVAC systems, preferred.
  • Experience with troubleshooting refrigeration and electronic systems, preferred.
  • Experience with safety and lockout programs and systems.
  • Bilingual (Spanish), preferred.

EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING:

  • High School Diploma.
  • Formal apprenticeship or formal training in industrial trades at a certified trade school or program in electronics, programming, or PLC's.

Job Status:  Full time

Compensation:  DOE - Top Wages in Albuquerque. Opportunity for advancement and increases in pay as you grow with our company.

Benefits:  PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays

Work Schedule: 

  • Day Shift: 4:30am - 4:30pm OR 7:00am - 7:00pm
  • Night Shift: 4:30pm - 4:30am OR 7:00pm - 7:00am

Travel: No

Additional EEO Information

Interested in a position with us?
Apply online or in person at:
2001 4th St. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Questions?
(505) 243-2722
HR@buenofoods.com

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What an awesome journey this has been...

After 22 years at Bueno Foods and 44+ years in the workforce in New Mexico, I am headed into retirement.  I can’t believe this day has come.  Thank you to the Baca Family for providing an opportunity to this unemployed single mom of a 6 year old in August of 2000. This business was totally foreign to me.  But what I learned was to work hard and truly learn what it means to be part of a team effort for this ever growing business and to know everyone in this business has a purpose. What an awesome journey this has been.  

Peace and Love,
Sharon B.

Employment and Economic Development

Bueno Foods employs about 300 people year-round and up to 400 people during peak season.

Our company offers a wide variety of workforce benefits, including:

Medical, dental, disability and life insurance

401k profit-sharing plan with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Ongoing education and training opportunities

Paid leave for holidays, vacation, illness and funeral

An aggressive internal promotion program

Product discounts