Plant Director

Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily operations to produce quality products through ensuring Food Safety and Quality standards.
• Responsible for the effective and efficient manufacturing while support multiple operating facilities.
• Ensures a safe operating environment for all employees and contractors through policy and practice development to build a world-class Safety environment.
• Ensures procedures are effectively implemented and adhered to.
• Develops, deploys, improves, and sustains daily management systems to ensure effective operational performance in meeting output (OEE/Schedule Attainment) requirements.
• Utilizes a data-driven approach to identifying areas of loss and opportunities for improvement.
• Works closely with the Director of Continuous Improvement to deploy TPM/Lean manufacturing strategies to optimize processes, reduce waste, and improve operational performance for the site.
• Safeguards all personnel are operating in compliance with plant, company, customer, and regulatory standards and guidelines.
• Manages effective budgeting, production scheduling, and resource planning to meet the business targets and optimizes operational performance.
• Promotes overall focus on delivering Service, Reliability, and Productivity for the ongoing operations for MFI.

Leadership And Team Development

• Provides and promotes visible floor leadership, interfacing with all levels of the plant organization to create a cross-functional environment.
• Develops a high performing leadership team environment to ensure consistency and sustainability of results across a balanced scorecard approach.
• Fosters a collaborative culture of accountability, trust, and responsibility.
• Coaches and develops plant staff to ensure effective leadership and collaboration to achieve balanced KPI’s.
• Partners with Human Resources to ensure all employee capability and learning needs are met to provide an effective and sustainable operating environment.
• Collaborates with MFI supply chain and financial leadership to ensure coordination of efforts to deliver the business plans for value proposition.

Collaboration And Partnership Management

• Acts as the key liaison between potato operations and supply chain leadership to ensure continuity and effective customer service.
• Develops ongoing capacity mapping to meet the growth needs of the customer with clear plans, objectives, and deliverables.
• Creates and executes strategic planning, both short and long-term, to sustain staffing and capability needs enabling improvement of operational performance and reliability.
• Works closely with MFI supply chain and financial leadership to ensure coordination of efforts to deliver the business plans for value proposition.

Expansion/Startup Management

• Develops, socializes, and executes multi-year expansion plans in close coordination with MFI leadership and supply chain growth plans.
• Partners with MFI Engineering resources to guarantee an effective build-out plan for future line expansion.
• Works closely with HR, SES, and FSQ to develop effective staffing, commissioning, validation, and start-up programs.
• Ensures clear and effective communication with Finance to develop and execute a business plan for business expansion.

Reporting And Documentation

• Supports the preparation and presentation of regular reports on plant performance, process improvements, capacity extension, and plant optimization to senior leadership.
• Maintains accurate documentation of all activities, including metrics, action plans, and improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university, preferably in Engineering or Science discipline, Supply Chain Management or Business. Master’s degree is preferred.
• Ten or more years of related food manufacturing experience.
• Aseptic manufacturing experience preferred with clear USDA/FSIS exposure.
• Seven years of direct plant (single or multiple site) leadership experience.
• Management of co-manufacturing customer relationships is a plus.
• Excellent communication and listening skills, including the ability to effectively present information to all levels of the company from plant floor to executive leadership.
• Previous experience in leadership of teams, managing manufacturing processes, strategic planning, dealing with complexity, financial planning and strategy in a high-speed manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills needed, including coaching, team building and training.
• Strong attention to detail, problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to analyze performance data and financial variance trends is preferred.

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is $153,047 - $250,997 per year.