KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop skills & capability of Operations Supervisors, Maintenance Supervisors and Operations Process Engineers
• Increase leadership capability of all team leaders
• Responsible for meeting Quality, Safety, Reliability, and Cost targets for department
• Work with all plant functions and departments to ensure production needs are met.
• Lead and teach complete understanding of overall plant product flow including all inputs and outputs.
• Manage and leverage relationships with R & D and corporate engineering.
• Identify, track and eliminate losses from the operation and lead in solving issues to root cause and implement improvements.
• Manage capital projects to improve operations measures in the areas of safety, quality, production efficiencies, and capacity growth.
• Set plant direction by contributing to the plant leadership team.
• Administer any necessary discipline.
• Communicate effectively to all levels of the operation.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Education

• A Bachelor’s Degree is required; a technical degree is preferred

Experience

• At least 3 years management experience is required
• Previous experience in food manufacturing 
• Previous experience in a High-Performance Work Organization or TPM environment