Plant Director - Pet Food - Multi Site

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and uphold company performance standards and ideology (on time delivery, quality, continuous improvement and work ethic).
• Build a highly engaged workforce through positive engagement utilising the employee engagement framework which creates an environment where TFI are recognised as the employer of choice in the local community.
• Collaborate with and work closely with TFI sales, livestock, and other group functions such as engineering, HR, finance to achieve shared business KPI's.
• Ensure all daily production targets are met and that all products meet company and client specifications.
• Identify opportunities to enhance yield recovery whilst maintaining specifications.
• Develop key metrics for all departments to deliver commercial and operational outcomes, performance and process improvement.
• Ensure work areas/department are operated to agreed manning levels based on production targets and minimise overtime.
• Ensure all employees are following company instructions / policies.
• Investigate new product development and revenue opportunities.
• Lead investigation into new technologies that will support the operational requirements to reduce labour, improve yields etc.
• Maintain and advance efficiency in every aspect of TFI livestock processing facilities.
• Ensure proactive preventive maintenance plans are developed and Root Cause Analysis for major downtime events conducted.
• Control all associated operational costs according to prevailing annual budget forecast.
• Investigate opportunities to reduce costs - packaging, process improvement, design modifications and automation.
• Ensure all administration requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Negotiate, as directed and within established policy, with employees and union organisers on day-to-day industrial matters.

Key Requirements

• Minimum 5 years' experience in pet food manufacturing, at least five of which must have been at a senior management level.
• Demonstrated ability to organise and plan workflow, set priorities and meet deadlines in a project and contract management context.
• Well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written in negotiation, facilitation, report preparation and conflict resolution.
• Extensive experience with operations, budgeting and Industrial Relations.
• Experience with the planning and management of facility (desirable).
• Experience with WHS&IM, preferably in a self-insured employer environment (desirable).