Operations Manager - Warehouse & Continuous Improvement

cargill•Milwaukee, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is in Cargill's Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a range of innovative ingredients and branded products. The Operations Manager will lead the site’s Warehouse of raw materials and finished goods and Continuous Improvement activities. This role is responsible for the operations agenda and leading an engaged team to execute business deliverables for Chocolate Manufacturing. The manager will deliver on the production plan, ensuring safety, quality, cost, and engagement objectives are met, and will lead continuous improvement activities at the site. The position is responsible for transforming departmental goals into measurable results.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related work experience
Ability to travel up to 10%

Nice To Haves

Lean six sigma
Two years of supervisory experience

Responsibilities

Ensures employee, food and feed safety and environmental compliance program standards and goals are implemented.
Accountable for all internal and external operating and regulatory procedures for employees, food and feed safety including strategic and tactical execution in alignment with corporate environment, health and safety and food safety, quality and regulatory functions as well as government regulations.
Establish and deploy operational priorities for the site focused on warehouse activities and monitor and implement continuous improvement best practices support for the whole site.
Leads strategic and tactical operations and quality management deliverables to ensure customer, product and quality standard requirements are met within specifications.
Leads, directs and controls capital, team members, and operating budgets for within the Warehouse department and providing support to the other operations departments to achieve medium term outlook financial performance objectives set by the business.
Ensure and hold direct reports accountable for meeting and controlling operating expenses and established targets.
Oversee the overall operational management and implement operational efficiency improvements which may include standardization of plant information manufacturing systems, quality control, safety, production reliability excellence and maintenance and operators best practices.
Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to partners and management.
Monitor and implement continuous improvement best practices.
Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with low cost and risk to reach and sustain project goals.
Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business needs.
Other duties as assigned