Site Director

Del Monte Foods is a multi-national food company headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, with a powerful portfolio of brands, including iconic Del Monte®, Contadina® and College Inn®. Our brands can be found in six out of ten U.S. households.

At Del Monte Foods, we believe in supporting one another. In helping our people shape their own careers - in letting them grow outward, upward and across disciplines. We are tending to the greater good, providing accessible, nourishing, great-tasting food for all. We are Del Monte Foods – Growers of Good.

The salary range for this role is: $129,627.24 - $233,193.66

Responsibilities:

The Site Director is responsible for all manufacturing operations. This is a hands-on position with responsibility for the development of policies and procedures to increase productivity and assure quality. The Site Director is responsible to ensure operations meets output and desired quality for the lowest possible cost working within the standards of corporate, state, and federal policy.

This role will direct, coach and mentor staff and use the Site’s personnel and capital resources to best meet production goals while developing new ways to make the production process more efficient through Lean Manufacturing techniques. Budgetary responsibility includes oversight of the facility’s processes and activities to achieve KPI’s across multiple categories including labor, waste, quality, costs, efficiencies, safety, etc. Performance will be managed by the following metrics: employee retention and turnover, reduced total recordable injury rates, key certifications in food safety and quality, packaging fill rates and on time delivery, lower conversion cost year over year, asset reliability, and successful retention of improved yields.

Management

• Provide overall leadership and direction to site managerial and hourly staff in all aspects of operations.
• Manage the site P&L to achieve budget and deliver transformational results for the operation.
• Contribute to achieving production objectives.
• Monitor departmental performance against goals to ensure goal attainment.
• Anticipate and provide direction on future capital projects and equipment needs.
• Maintain effective community and government relations to maintain Del Monte's image in the community.
• Understand and deliver customer requirements at level >98% OTIF (On time item fill).
• Develop and lead plans and processes to minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of labor/scheduling, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital.
• Enhance and grow the skills of the plant team through providing thought leadership in defining and driving best practices, adoption of new tools and processes, and consistent measurement of key metrics.
• Instill a high-performance work environment with a culture of accountability.

Safety

• Ensure a safe work environment and correct deficiencies in a timely manner.
• Through site staff, supervisors and managers, assure employee engagement, safety, quality, customer service, cost, and production objectives are met or exceeded.
• Provide training avenues to employees leveraging Safety, SOP’s, and user manuals.
• Drive behavioral based safety program to change current culture and results.

Operations

• Take ownership and accountability for overall site operations.
• Lead quality and continuous improvement initiatives in support of operations.
• Management of warehousing operations, including labeling and shipping to meet planned AOP costs, quality standards, and timeliness of shipping. Identify warehouse inventory imbalances and improve cycle count accuracy to ensure Del Monte is representing financials appropriately from an inventory perspective.
• Implement ‘lean principles’ on the floor and execute a site master plan in line with service and COGS.
• Work with operators and vendors to improve packaging materials performance.
• Develop and implement plans with operators and mechanics to improve line performance.
• Ensure compliance with all quality and food safety requirements to protect customers & consumers.
• Monitor key performance indicators to assess labor and variance to budget, productivity, and schedule adherence.
• Utilize metrics, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPI’s) to measure success.
• Oversee budgetary responsibility including oversight of the facility’s processes and activities to achieve KPI’s across multiple categories including labor, waste, quality, costs, efficiencies, safety, etc.

People

• Provide leadership, guidance, and training to employees.
• Directly support the development of internal talent in preparation for future advancement/promotional opportunities.
• Coach, motivate, train and effectively manage the performance of site managerial and support personnel.
• Work closely with quality team to review final product consistency in order to determine areas of improvement.
• Work with HR Operations team on work system design in plant, development programs, and the betterment of Company early career talent development initiatives.
• Partner with Human Resources in implementing and adhering all employees to policies and processes.
• Develop and maintain a spirit of positive relationship with the salaried and bargaining unit hourly associates.
• Enforce consistent, fair and inclusive employment practices, legal and corporate compliance, as well as behaviors reflective of the company's commitment to diversity.
• Lead direct reports and partner with indirect functional staff, e.g. finance, continuous improvement and human resources to implement policies and procedures.

Core Values:

• Mission first: You believe that the first priority should be advancing the mission of the organization.
• Dedication to learning: You are open to and create a culture of honest, direct, regular, compassionate feedback and dedicated to fostering a culture of learning.
• Commitment to diversity: You have a deep commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive team, demonstrated through such things investing heavily in recruiting people from a wide range of backgrounds, removing unconscious bias in interviews, and ensuring staff can bring their full selves to work.

Attributes

• Energetic, Aspirational and Driven: Must be an outstanding, inspirational leader with the ability to set high but reachable goals, clearly communicate those goals to employees, and infuse the team with a sense of purpose and urgency in attainment of those goals. Bright, engaging, and driven with ‘start up’ energy and passion.
• A Great Coach, Mentor, and Team Builder: A dynamic leader with proven ability to mentor direct reports and build and manage a continuously growing/evolving team. Builds an environment where top talent wants to work. Seeks out and grows emerging talent. A secure and humble leader who surrounds themselves with strongest professionals.
• An Excellent Communicator: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with people at all levels inside and outside the organization. Ability to work through conflict, gain trust, and persuasively influence outcomes. This leader will have CEO and Executive Team visibility and needs to build and foster relationships of accountability, execution and reliability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations, Industrial Management, or related field.
• Minimum 15 Years Directly Applicable Management Experience within a comparable Labeling & Packaging/Distribution environment. Extensive functional knowledge of packaging and labeling equipment and operations, with excellence in all core metrics of safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people. Preferred 2 plus years of management experience in the labeling, packaging, distribution environment.
• Site Leader experience in a complex ~100 associate turnaround site having worked with maintenance, FSQA, planning, engineering, CI/Lean, etc. Multi-site oversight experience is a plus.
• A “hands on” servant leader working on the floor leading teams to develop and grow. Experience leading transformations of organizational culture, people, process, performance, and outcomes taking it to “best-in-class”.
• Experience developing a safety-first culture resulting in best-in-class safety operations.
• Strength in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies and collaboration with maintenance teams to transform from reactive to predictive methods.
• Proven competencies in driving operational excellence, cost, and productivity improvements across the organization, with measurable financial, quality, and cycle time results, without compromising product quality or company growth.
• A successful track record of developing talent, building culture and championing diversity and inclusion with multilingual and multicultural teams is paramount.
• Ability to innovate and design strategies, procedures, and people utilization that significantly improve reliability of equipment, efficiency, productivity, and performance while reducing inventory and waste and achieving business and technical results.
• Experience in driving initiatives, holding self and team accountable for results and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Translate vision and strategy into explicit plans and action. Rally support behind the vision. Recognize success.
• Overcome challenges or obstacles even when it means choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Expect the same from direct reports.
• Be a decision maker – weigh in and determine the course of action.
• Demonstrate ownership of policy and the Code of Conduct.
• Set clear expectations and trust people to decide how to complete high-quality work. Align work and resources to ensure success. Stay focused on the critical priorities. Connect individual work deliverables to organizational and departmental goals.
• Demonstrate professional knowledge and good judgment with focus on achieving necessary tasks at hand and make course-corrections to ensure success. Focus on AOP plans and drive to achieve results. Measure progress against plans and goals.