Plant Manager

Essential Responsibilities

• Operational Management: Develop and execute plans to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the plant, including production planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and maintenance activities.
• Coordinate plant activities through planning with department managers to ensure manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Establish and monitor overall plant performance for production and quality standards
• Ensure plant facilities are well-maintained for uptime and reliability.
• Participates in maintenance planning to determine plant required projects, status of ongoing projects, and scheduling of future projects.
• Safety & Quality Compliance: Ensure all safety protocols and manufacturing SOPs are strictly followed and that the plant complies with all regulatory requirements.
• Establish policies and procedures required to ensure plant cleanliness.
• Implementing and maintaining safety standards to ensure a safe working environment for all employees.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and maintain a safe and healthy workplace.
• Promote environmental responsibility and support the company's ESG goals.
• Accountable for the EHS Management System.
• Responsible for FDA-readiness and site’s certification status.
  
  

• Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in production processes and implement strategies to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives and solve operational issues.
• Inventory Management: Monitor inventory levels of raw materials and finished products to ensure timely availability and minimize waste.
  
  

• Budget Management: Develop and manage the plant’s budget, ensuring cost-effective operations while meeting production targets.
• Responsible for implementing cost-effective systems of control over operating expenditures, workforce, wages, and salaries.
• Reduce costs of poor quality and manage inventories.
• Responsible for plant standard costs, work definitions, and capacity models.
• Manage inventories in partnership with Supply Chain and Planning.
• Manage within the approved Capex budget.
• Ensure judicious Capex spend to maintain and upgrade the facility for safety, compliance, quality, efficiency, and capacity.
  
  

• Team Leadership: Lead and motivate a team of managers, supervisors, technicians, and other staff members, providing guidance and coaching to improve performance and productivity, to foster a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Develop direct reports through teamwork, coaching, and innovation.
• Build a capable team with succession plans for key positions.
  
  

• Performance Management: Performance Management of all employees, including performance reviews, goal setting, production goals, disciplinary action, career development and succession planning.
• Champion people processes that prepare employees for success, establish performance expectations, and ensure a fair and equitable disciplinary process.
  
  

• Reporting: Prepare and present regular reports on plant performance, including production metrics, safety incidents, and financial results.
• Connect effectively with key stakeholders of Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and external customers as required by standard business processes and / or sales visits.
• Ability to report effectively to the company’s executive leadership.
• Utilize Oracle ERP systems and excel for data analysis and reporting.
• Weekly, monthly, and quarterly tracking, analysis, and reporting of plant KPIs.
• Establish departmentalized key performance indicators and metrics to monitor and report overall plant performance to senior management.
  

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing plant management role, preferably in the agriculture, food, or chemical industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Agriculture, Science or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, safety regulations, and quality control standards.
• Leadership and communication skills.
• Proven experience and leadership in a manufacturing plant setting demonstrate success in achieving productive, cost effective and compliant results.
• Superior communication skills from line level to top corporate individuals; and externally with customers and community
• Proven ability to manage budgets and optimize operational costs.
• Proficiency in using manufacturing software and tools.
• Perform role of leadership as an example of integrity, respect and uncompromising business conduct
• Leadership skills in problem-solving capabilities.
• Knowledge of business and management principles for strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacturing and distribution of goods.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Familiarity with environmental regulations and sustainability practices.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are the representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty pounds, and rarely lift and/or move more than twenty-five pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Verdesian Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex, and sexual orientation.