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Operations Manager

Judge Direct Placement
Wichita, KS Full Time
POSTED ON 9/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/28/2025

The Judge Group is seeking a degreed Plant Operations Manager for a large food manufacturing company in Wichita, KS area! The candidate will control and supervise all coordination, planning and direction of production activities, ensuring product quality and ensuring maximum operating efficiency. The candidate will ensure all jobs are performed efficiently, accurately, and safely to improve and maintain the performance of the entire plant. The qualified individual will develop superintendents to improve and maintain plant performance.


Responsibilities:

  • Communicate and maintain new industry trends including customer needs, developments in equipment, and ingredients
  • Participate and support the plant safety process
  • Use familiarity of plant operations and process to maintain and develop department organization
  • Create areas of responsibility and group production functions to meet production objectives and needs
  • Advance recommendations in all fields related to effective department and plant operations
  • Must be highly organized and systematic in approach
  • Ensure all things happen on schedule
  • Prepare production portion of operating budgets
  • Implement and control approved budgets
  • Communicate effectively with all plant workers to ensure timely and efficient policy implementation
  • Maintain close contact with sales and marketing staying up to date of all marketing and sales activities that may affect production distribution
  • Implement and improve methods for assisting employees to achieve plant production goals
  • Develop department associates and managers to the fullest extent of their ability, while maintaining positive engagement
  • Provide feedback to leads, associates and department managers on performance against department and plant goals and objectives
  • Follow policies, practices and programs to produce safe quality foods that meet company and regulatory requirements
  • Support the maintenance, development, implementation and ongoing improvement of the SQF 2000 Systems
  • Supervise direct reports in the performance of their duties
  • Complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports



Requirements:

  • BS degree required
  • 5 years of experience in food manufacturing operations
  • TPM experience required
  • Proven leadership
  • Functional knowledge of Microsoft products including: PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and Excel
  • Knowledge of Total Process Control or lean manufacturing

Salary : $100,000 - $115,000

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