Food Manufacturing Staffing Success: 50% Turnover Reduction
Quick Facts
- Industry: Food Production
- Service Type: Temporary or Temp-to-hire Staffing & On-site Workforce Management
- Timeline: 24-months
- Geography: Minnesota
- Specializations: Mixer, Oven Tender, Freezer Tech, Line Worker, Scaler, Stager, Team Lead
Doherty Staffing Solutions (Doherty) offers a wide range of customizable employment solutions to meet each company’s unique hiring needs, whether it’s helping with large-volume temporary staffing, payrolling your contingent workforce, or finding the right professional to complete your team. We work alongside human resources managers, leadership team members, and other hiring professionals within your organization to ensure an efficient and timely hiring process.
This workforce success story highlights how Doherty utilized our employment expertise to help provide a food production company with customized contingent and on-site workforce management solutions for their Minnesota dessert manufacturing facility.
Company Overview
This company is a dessert manufacturer located in rural Minnesota. They focus on creating high-quality, handcrafted desserts and are a leader in the thaw-and-serve dessert industry. They produce a variety of food products, including pies, cakes, brownies, and more. Doherty Staffing Solutions (Doherty) partnered with this food production company to provide a scalable, high-volume contingent workforce solution.
Hiring Challenges
This food production organization faced workforce instability and high turnover. Their facility urgently needed a food production staffing partner who could bring structure to their contingent workforce management. They were seeking a Minnesota staffing agency that understood how to align hiring with production demands while quickly adapting to seasonal fluctuations. Additionally, they needed a strategy to improve employee morale and retention, as high turnover rates were negatively affecting their food production operations. Effective on-site management support and an approach to building a long-term, committed workforce were critical to solving these issues.
Workforce Solutions
To address the workforce challenges at this food production facility, Doherty partnered closely with the human resources and plant management teams. Doherty implemented a structured recruitment model tailored to the facility’s specific food production staffing needs, ensuring that production line recruitment levels aligned seamlessly with both ongoing and seasonal demands.
To support workforce stability, Doherty also introduced employee retention initiatives, such as stay interviews and regular feedback processes, which provided valuable insights into employee experiences. By establishing these workforce programs, Doherty helped foster a culture of continuous improvement, boosting employee morale and decreasing turnover. The comprehensive, hands-on approach delivered the essential on-site support the food production facility required, creating a sustainable workforce solution that adapted alongside their evolving production needs.
Key Results
Through its partnership with Doherty, this dessert manufacturer achieved stronger workforce stability and increased operational efficiency. Doherty’s structured production line recruitment and tailored seasonal staffing model ensured food production staffing needs were met year-round to match workforce fluctuations. Peak placements were achieved in late 2023. Due to high turnover and increased need, Doherty had 67 employees working at one time. Since then, food manufacturing staffing has leveled out, with 30-40 employees consistently working on assignment.
Employee morale improved significantly with the implementation of stay interviews and regular feedback processes, contributing to approximately a 50% reduction in average quarterly turnover in the last two years. Doherty’s on-site workforce management and commitment to continuous improvement have positioned this food production company with a reliable, engaged workforce ready to support both daily operations and future growth.
Due to the successes at this leading dessert manufacturer, Doherty’s sister company, Dahl Consulting, was able to help this organization’s holding company implement a specialized consulting solution to fill highly-skilled, professional information technology roles.
“We recently had a big push to get completely staffed. We had 30 open positions and Doherty pulled out all the stops to get that to happen! I highly recommend them for any business struggling to find good employees.” – Human Resources Director
Summary
As illustrated in this workforce success story, Doherty is familiar with the challenges of contingent workforce management in the food production industry and knows how to apply our 40+ years of employment expertise to craft a custom workforce solution that can work for your business.
Are you ready for customized hiring solutions that help transform workforce operations? Partner with The Employment Experts at Doherty for your personalized food production staffing solution.
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