Plant Manager

Essential Functions

• Lead continuous improvement in the safety and food feed safety culture of the facility.
• Maintain high standards of performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and facilitate corrective action and preventive action plans at the site.
• Establish and continually improve a procedures-based culture.
• Facilitate an agile, effective, and engaged work force through strong change management, communication, and training efforts.
• Cultivate a high performing team with a customer-focused mindset.
• Maintain production at desired level while adhering to strict safety, food feed safety, and quality standards.
• Owning the plant capacity plan and continually update operating plans based on inputs from Demand Planning and the Sales and Operating Planning Processes.
• Ensure adherence to the production schedule in order to meet commitments to customers.
• Maintain goal alignment between the plant, the manufacturing function, the business, and the corporation.
• Create & maintain a positive work environment where success is celebrated, along with communicating company policies and directives to employees.
• Effectively utilize regional, corporate, and approved outside expertise to drive learning and continuous improvement into the plant organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a technical field of study such as engineering, chemistry, food manufacturing, microbiology/food science or a closely related field.
• 10 + 5+ years Production Management & Supervisory/Leadership; experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment is highly recommended.
• Ability to Facilitate & Lead in a Team Environment.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, develop and train a strong facility team.
• Demonstrated strong execution capacity.
• Ability to create sustained change to more effective systems
• Production logistics & scheduling, GMP systems. APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma training is a plus.