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 to hire a Merchandiser who will be responsible for stocking up product, stock rotation of product and customer service support on retail store accounts on the west side of town, including Rio Rancho and Bernalillo.
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.
- Must have insured vehicle.
- 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.
- High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule:
- Thursday - Monday: 5am - 1pm (Tuesday and Wednesday off)
Travel: No
Job Location: Albuquerque
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking to hire a Senior Accountant who assists the Controller in fulfilling the required functions of the accounting department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepares timely and accurate monthly financial information and management reports as assigned.
- Prepares journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, and financial statements.
- Assists with required audits and corporate tax return including but not limited to the preparation of PBCs as assigned.
- Assists with developing the annual budget.
- Assist with monitoring inventory as assigned.
- Assist with monitoring costs as assigned.
- Assists with annual costing and analyses.
- Assist with tracking Fixed Assets and maintaining accurate depreciation schedules.
- Maintain daily banking records.
- Assist with payroll processing.
- Complies with HIPAA requirements.
- Assists with record retention.
- Maintains up to date and accurate SOPs for the functions of the job and functions of staff.
- Cross trains staff and cross trained in all duties of the accounting department.
- Develops, enforces and audits internal controls as assigned.
- Analyzes data and prepares reports as required.
Requirements:
- Minimum of five years accounting experience and two years supervisory experience.
- Experience with comprehensive financial accounting.
- Experience with manufacturing systems, costing, and inventory control systems preferred.
- Experience with internal controls.
- Experience with financial reporting methods and analysis.
- Experience with fixed asset capitalization and depreciation rules.
- Experience in training and developing staff.
- Ability to analyze complex problems.
- Ability to review and prepare detailed financial & accounting reports.
- Ability to detect & trace accounting errors.
- Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in writing in order to convey or communicate information.
- Strong computer, word processing and electronic spreadsheet experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent discipline.
- CPA, MBA or CMA preferred.
- Manufacturing or cost accounting preferred.
- Advanced spreadsheet skills required.
- Intermediate database computer skills required.
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday: regular business hours
Travel: No
Job Location: Albuquerque
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking for a Route Relief Driver who is responsible for direct delivery and merchandising of accounts and customer service support.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing proper rotation and facing of stock and ensuring fresh stock on store shelves.
- Responsible for Merchandising duties.
- Resolves customer order problems.
- Follows route delivery schedules.
- As required, makes customer deliveries.
- Works on special projects.
- Responds to customer service and departmental requests for information.
- Responsible for inventory accountability as determined by department manager.
Requirements:
- Valid/current driver's license and a good driving record with no DWI's.
- Must submit to and be in compliance with any tests/regulations as required by DOT (Department of Transportation) regulations.
- Drive a bobtail delivery truck, step van, with automatic or manual transmission.
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday: early start - until finished (typically 8 hours). May work on Saturday (rarely).
Travel: No
Job Location: Arizona (Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff)
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking to hire a highly motivated Sales Manager in Food Service who has a passion for New Mexico's culinary heritage to grow our Arizona territory.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Makes sales calls.
- Plans, directs and executes sales and marketing goals and objectives.
- Responsible for attaining sales goals within the expense budget.
- Responsible for sales profitability.
- Investigates new markets and prepares introductory plan.
- Recommends and implements distribution methods.
- Expands sales in developing markets.
- Plan, control and direct activities of food brokers (if utilized) and distributors to obtain maximum sales volume as requested.
- Responsible for building sales through broker and distributor operations.
- Manage headquarter calls and distributor relationships.
- Responsible for maintaining existing business and expanding sales in the territory.
- Analyze sales activity by area, take required actions.
- Directs customer service activities.
- Trains sales staff including distributor and broker employees.
- Enforces and negotiates contracts.
- Develop, execute and present promotional programs.
- Coordinates pricing issues with marketing staff.
- Attends and participates in trade shows.
Requirements:
- Minimum three years of face to face sales experience, or alternatively five years experience in the food industry as a buyer.
- Proven results in attaining sales increases.
- Experience in developing and making professional presentations successfully.
- Experience in developing and implementing promotions.
- Experience in the food service and retail industry preferred.
- Bilingual (Spanish) preferred.
- Valid/current driver’s license and good driving record with no DWI’s.
- 4-year undergraduate degree is preferred.
- Basic training in fundamentals of selling preferred.
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday: regular business hours.
Travel: 25%. Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff and surrounding areas.
Job Location: Las Cruces or Hatch
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking to hire a Supply Chain Coordinator who will be responsible for raw material, packaging, and logistics supply and coordination, particularly Green Chile.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for sourcing, ordering, and coordination of raw materials, packaging and logistics services.
- Primary company representative with green chile and red chile suppliers.
- Assists in supplier identification, contract development, apportioning contracts and the contracting process for raw materials, packaging, and logistics services.
- Monitors inventory, analyzes information, places orders, and creates reports.
- Assists in negotiations and problem solving.
- Primary company representative for green and red chile suppliers. Responsible for coordination, communication, delivery, and oversight of green and red chile suppliers. Requires frequent field visits during the harvest season.
- Co-responsibility for commodities supply including futures, basis, component pricing, and ordering.
- Assists and provides back up to the Materials Department in all activities.
- Attend meetings as required.
Requirements:
- Ability to negotiate favorable terms.
- Ability to correct problems and work with others to obtain same goals.
- Ability to maintain organized and accurate records.
- Ability to make independent decisions.
- Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in writing in order to convey or communicate information.
- Ability to organize projects and manage simultaneous projects and analyze data.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required; horticulture practices or biology preferred.
Job Status: Full time
Compensation: DOE
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday: 7am - 4pm.
Travel: Yes
Job Location: Albuquerque
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking to hire a Process Engineer who will improve the operational processes within the Company.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for engineering duties as assigned.
- Responsible for analyzing and planning workforce utilization requirements, workflow, and design layouts of equipment and workspaces for maximum efficiency.
- Identify and improve product cost, production labor utilization, and product quality and product food safety from the engineering perspective.
- Plan, justify, specify, design new and improved processes, new and improved equipment, and new and improve facility projects, as assigned.
- Responsible for completing installation of new and improved processes.
- Complete equipment, facilities, plant infrastructure, and utility improvement projects on time and within budget, as assigned.
- As directed by the New Product Development (NPD) team, develop or modify processes from engineering design to full integration into Operations, as required by the NPD project.
- Provide technical assistance on process information and specifications for operational processes.
- Develop, coordinate and conduct training of operational staff, including Production, Sanitation, and Warehouse, Maintenance or other Ops. staff for engineering related activities.
- Interface with vendors and suppliers on all engineering projects, as assigned.
- Conduct research to understand and control the parameters which are important to productivity, product quality and product food safety. Implement once approved by management as indicated.
- Comply with USDA/ FDA/ OSHA and other regulatory body regulations.
- Keep all engineering specifications and work product safe and confidential.
- Investigate customer claims that have been identified as engineering-related and report to management, as assigned.
- Responsible for cap-ex expenditures related to engineering projects.
- Collect data and prepare detailed reports, as needed, given the projects assigned.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of engineering experience.
- Experience with CAD programs.
- Experience developing manufacturing procedures preferred.
- Experience with USDA/FDA regulations preferred.
- Experience with process documentation and recordkeeping.
- Experience with food manufacturing, packaging and product safety standards preferred.
- Ability to organize and manage a wide variety of projects simultaneously.
- Experience with project management software preferred.
Education:
- BS Degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Process, Maintenance or Chemical Engineering.
Job Status: Full time
Compensation: DOE
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday regular business hours.
Travel: Some
Job Location: Albuquerque
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking to hire a Product Developer who is involved in developing new products, product improvements, and line extensions from conception through commercialization.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implements food product formulations operationally.
- Transfers formulation prototypes from benchtop through the scale-up and into production.
- Team participant in projects with other departments.
- Team participant in product improvement projects.
- Complies with USDA/FDA regulations.
- Establishes formulation procedures and specifications for finished products.
- Develops heating and handling instructions for finished product.
- Assists in establishing manufacturing procedures, packaging specifications, ingredient specifications and finished product specifications.
- Using protocols, drafts raw ingredient specifications for review by TS and Food Safety Team.
- Assists in establishing shelf study protocols and performs shelf studies as directed by TS Team.
- Assists in developing nutritional evaluations using nutritional database software.
- Interfaces with vendors and suppliers on product development projects.
- Using protocols, evaluates competitor products, for review by TS Team.
- Conducts directed research to understand and control the parameters which are important to product quality.
- Integrates published ideas in research activities which impact the manufacturing processes.
- Responsible for safekeeping product formulas and recipes during the product development stage.
- Provides technical assistance on customer complaint issues as needed and reports to TS Team and QA Manager on specific complaint responses as they apply to the product.
- Provides technical assistance on processing and develops guidance documents as needed for manufacturing personnel.
- Provides technical assistance on food safety projects, including HACCP and Food Safety Plans.
- Works on costing verification in conjunction with other departments.
Requirements:
- Minimum 1 year experience in a food technology, food science or food engineering environment preferred.
- Experience with prototype development, from benchtop through pilot plant and into production.
- Experience developing product specifications and manufacturing procedures.
- Experience with nutritional evaluations.
- Experience with sensory panels.
- Experience with product microwavability.
- Experience with or knowledge of Mexican food industry.
- Experience with USDA/FDA regulations.
- Experience with process documentation and record keeping.
- Experience with food manufacturing, packaging and product safety standards.
- Ability to organize and manage a wide variety of projects simultaneously.
- Ability to operate material handling equipment.
- Ability to lift 50 pounds.
- Strong computer and software skills in order to input & retrieve data and to prepare detailed reports.
Education:
- BS or MS degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Food Technology or related area preferred.
Job Status: Full time
Compensation: DOE
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday regular business hours.
Travel: Some, minimal.
Job Location: Gallup
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking for a weekend Merchandiser who will be responsible for stocking up product, stock rotation of product and customer service support on retail store accounts in Gallup.
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.
- Insured vehicle.
Education:
- High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
Job Status: Part time. Saturdays and Sundays
Compensation: $17.00/hr + mileage reimbursement.
Benefits: Paid sick leave
Work Schedule: Saturday & Sunday 5am - 12noon
Travel: N/A
Job Location: Albuquerque
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking for a Production Manager who will be responsible for who planning, organizing and directing the operations of Production, Maintenance, and Sanitation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage all production programs at the facility by increasing line efficiencies through personnel training, developing qualified personnel, motivating and maintaining employee morale, and coordinating process changes.
- Ensure that production department accurately measures and reports data for compliance to company specifications by generating, implementing, and documenting production reports and procedures.
- Control and reduce material waste by increasing line and process efficiencies.
- Support and be actively involved in the Plant Safety program, Hazardous Chemical Handling Program and Good Manufacturing Practices.
- Responsible for insuring personnel follow all food safety and quality policies and procedures and communicating any food safety and quality issues on a timely basis to Quality and/or Food Safety personnel.
- Motivates personnel.
- Scheduling of personnel and products based on customer requirements, to include green Chile, jalapenos, prepared foods, spices, red chile, and bakery products.
- Support ERP system and train production personnel in pertinent aspects of the program.
- Responsible for attaining manufacturing, quality and cost goals.
- Interacts with and complies with governmental regulatory agencies and auditing organizations.
- Communicates, enforces, complies with and develops company policies and procedures.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years manufacturing experience.
- 1 year management experience preferred.
- Organized, good planner, execution oriented.
- Ability to take general directions and goals and make specific plans and execute these.
- Ability to communicate in Spanish strongly preferred.
- Excellent computer skills to generate reports.
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and written.
Education:
- 4 year college degree preferred.
- Training in fundamentals of management and supervisory techniques preferred.
- Manufacturing management course work preferred.
Job Status: Full time
Compensation: Starting at $80,000.00, DOE
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm. On call after hours.
Travel: N/A
Job Location: TEXAS (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio)
Job Description & Responsibilities: We are looking for a highly motivated Regional Sales Manager II with strong management experience who has a passion for Hispanic food.
We are one of the largest manufacturers in New Mexico and we pride ourselves in being a Family owned company with deep roots in our state and community. We are looking to grow in the Texas market and are ideally looking for someone in Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio.
Join a highly talented team and be part of our growing success!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans, directs and executes sales and marketing goals and objectives.
- Plans and executes operational objectives.
- Responsible for attaining sales and profitability goals.
- Responsible for achieving dollar sales goals.
- Responsible for developing and meeting revenue and expense budgets.
- Responsible for meeting discount and allowance budgets.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with customers.
- Works with marketing to develop and implement promotional programs and activities.
- Responsible for holding sales personnel accountable for developing and maintaining broker management protocol.
- Enforces and negotiates contracts.
- Analyze sales activity by area, take required actions.
- Coordinates pricing issues with senior management staff.
- Develop and make sales/marketing presentations.
- Conducts business reviews.
- Conducts market analysis and research.
- Attends and participates in trade shows.
- Trains and develops sales staff.
- Monitors, evaluates and documents employee performance.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years sales experience.
- Minimum 3 years management experience.
- Minimum 3 years executive corporate call experience.
- Minimum 3 years managing a sales staff and $10,000,000 in annual sales.
- Minimum 5 years developing and responsible for annual budget of at least $1,000,000.
- Minimum 3 years financial statement analysis.
- Experience in food industry preferred.
- Experience and expertise with Mexican food industry, preferred.
- Ability to analyze areas for sales potential and growth potential.
- Experience with sales promotions.
- Ability to organize and manage a wide variety of projects simultaneously.
Education:
- College degree in Business Administration, Marketing or General Management preferred.
- Basic training in fundamentals of selling preferred.
Job Status: Full time
Compensation: Starting at $80,000.00 annually
Benefits: PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and Paid Holidays
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday: regular business hours
Travel: Yes - 45%
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
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.