Plant Manager

Summary                                                                                                                                                    

The Plant Manager provides leadership to the site operation, ensuring safety in the work floor, superior quality of the manufacturing goods, guarantees a best-in-class service to our customers while achieving the cost and KPI objectives. Provides hands-on leadership and vision within the site and collaborates actively with all the departments to maximize business performance. Assists in short and long-term business plans for training and hiring relating to the processes on the facility. Foster the continuous improvement culture and ensures resources are effectively utilized.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:                                                                                  

• Responsible for proactive people management. Sets the standards for performance assessment and feedback, effective communication, promoting positive morale and supporting team effectiveness.
• Actively drives safety culture, ensures that safety policies and procedures are followed.
• Ensure, FDA, SQF, AIB, Food Safety, Food Defense and other regulatory requirements are met and actively collaborate in the implementation of GMPs, quality and sanitation processes used in the food industry.
• Assures regulatory compliance and positive community relations.
• Interfaces with all management groups, including sales, customer service, quality, materials, finance, EHS and human resources in order to meet safety, quality, service, cost and compliance requirements.
• Responsible for the overall planning, and completion of work required to support all manufacturing activities in compliance with all regulatory requirements in a cost-effective manner and in accordance with planned budget.
• Develops the annual operating plan/budgets and continuously reviews the plan compliance with respect to production, yields, and fixed costs. Answers variances from the plan.
• Participates in identifying continuous improvement goals in quality, safety, cost control, scheduling, staffing, and compliance for the organization and plays a key leadership role in attaining those goals.
• Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards
• Ensures that duties, responsibilities, accountability, and authority of all direct reports are defined and understood.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
• Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts
• Assess employee talent and capabilities, including issuing employee performance reviews.
• Other duties assigned by Sr. Operation Director.

Education and Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with preference in an Engineering background such as Chemical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineer.
• 4- 6 years food industry environment is mandatory.
• Confectionary, nuts and seeds, packaged good products experience is desirable.
• Minimum 3 – 5 years of experience in plant management (showing continual progression) in a multi shift operation. Preferably in a plant of 150 or larger employees.
• Preferred Prior experience leading a plant through an integration or expansion / major capital project.
• Ability to understand OEE, Quality and Financial reports, Root cause analysis, draw conclusions and develop improvement plans.
• Experience with large number of SKUs/diverse, highly complex product mix is preferred.

• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the leg and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (as in a typical office or administrative work).

• • Technical skills in manufacturing processes. Develop SOPs
  • Food Safety/Quality Systems experience (Preferred).
  • Food industry knowledge preferred.
  • Lean Six Sigma Certification (preferred)
  • Financial experience in budget management preferred
  • Bilingual (English/Spanish).
  • Computer, measurement equipment, and any other tools required for the performance of the operation.
  • ERP, MRP & MS Office experience

• • Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
  • Quality and Food Safety orientation.
  • Problem analysis and problem resolution.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Enjoys a hands-on work environment.
  • Positive “can-do” attitude”.
  • Forward thinker and planner.
  • Problem Solver and pro-active solution seeker.

• • Bachelors degree in manufacturing-related field
  • 5-7 years in food plant supervision (preferred)
  • Lean Six Sigma Certification (preferred)
  • Financial experience in budget management