Assistant General Manager
About The Position
The Assistant General Manager is accountable for site operations at a facility with 250–500+ union employees who refine, package, and distribute food products. Reporting to the site VP/GM, the role ensures operations meet safety, food safety, quality, cost, volume, and service criteria. It executes strategies to achieve short- and long-term operating and profit goals, administers site policies within companywide policies, and drives continuous improvement. The Assistant General Manager helps formulate operating procedures, develops plans to achieve production volumes and profit projections, ensures product quality and safety within budget, develops future talent and leadership, and reports progress against goals to the VP/GM. The role leads a manufacturing facility focused on continuous improvement and sustainable performance, while directly supervising site leaders responsible for refining, packaging, materials, and warehousing. It oversees manufacturing and financial performance, regulatory and safety compliance, quality systems, operating standards, and personnel development. The position is based in Crockett, California, and requires mobility for potential future assignments across ASR Group locations in 2–5 years.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- 10–20+ years of total professional experience with progressively responsible growth.
- At least 5 years of production management experience, including responsibility for departments and at least 100 direct and indirect reports.
- Budgetary responsibility of at least $15 million–$20 million annually in production management.
- Demonstrated experience applying continuous improvement principles and practices, including Lean Manufacturing, 5-S, and/or Six Sigma.
- Responsibility for managing safety and environmental performance.
- Track record of managing to high-quality standards, including SQF in the food industry or ISO in a non-food industry.
- Candidate must be mobile for future assignments across ASR Group locations in 2–5 years.
- Demonstrated adaptability, organizational and political savvy, teamwork and collaboration, strategic perspective, problem-solving ability, and communication and interpersonal skills.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Food, beverage, pharmaceutical, or CPG manufacturing experience, or a combination of food manufacturing experience and manufacturing experience in similar industries.
- Experience with a unionized workforce.
Responsibilities
- Ensure safety and regulatory compliance.
- Lead the manufacturing facility with a focus on continuous improvement and sustainable performance.
- Guide the site leadership team on continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide plant staff with support, training, and development.
- Directly supervise, motivate, and evaluate site leaders responsible for refining, packaging, materials, and warehousing.
- Prepare reports covering manufacturing cost controls, cost estimates, capacity plans, manpower, and facility requirements.
- Monitor manufacturing and financial performance and implement corrective action plans as needed to meet company objectives.
- Implement Food Safety Quality Control functions to meet company Quality System requirements.
- Keep line standards updated, identify bottlenecks, and propose ways to eliminate them.
- Help develop, review, modify, and implement operating systems for sanitation, safety, quality, preventative maintenance, general manufacturing practices, and best management practices.
- Develop plant personnel capabilities and support performance and talent management activities.
- Ensure staff maintain an overall focus on safety, customers, and quality.
- Develop plans for implementing continuous improvement manufacturing principles.
- Develop plans to achieve production volumes and profit projections and ensure product quality and safety within budgetary limits.
- Provide reports to the VP/GM on progress against goals.
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs, available the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
- 401(k) with match.
- Life insurance.
- AD&D insurance.
- Short-term disability.
- Vacation time.
- Holiday time.
- Sick time.
- Bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
