Plant Director

Califia Farms, LLC • Shafter, CA

3h • $200,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Director role for Califia Farms is responsible for day-to-day and strategic leadership and management of operations in our Bakersfield plant. This role oversees plant operations to achieve short and long-range business goals in safety, quality, customer service, costs, efficiency, plant reliability, and raw material usage yields.

Requirements

• BS/BA or equivalent
• 10+ years of leadership experience in production facilities, prefer beverage, food processing and/or dairy products.
• P&L experience, strong financial and analytical
• Excellent intuition and deductive reasoning for assessing
• Keen insight and proactive ability to identify, assess and manage
• Demonstrated experience and success in managing people effectively and leading operations function in a complex manufacturing
• Skilled and experienced with labor, hiring and management practices, including building and maintaining high performance
• Decisive and collaborative leader with the ability to drive performance through multiple organizational levels.
• Demonstrated operational leadership; hands-on management style; effective decision-maker.
• Lead and live the Califia Values: Passion for Purpose, Fierce Interdependence, Insights into Action, Challenger Spirit
• Dedicated to strong relationships with customers and employees, with excellent communication skills, is inspirational and able to lead people by collaboration, heartfelt service, appreciation, and bias to
• Able to clearly articulate the vision and plan, provide direct and clear feedback and able to positively influence others.
• Thrives on learning by constantly seeking new knowledge, fearless problem solver, engages in self- improvement, is smart and focused on what

Responsibilities

• Set performance objectives and key results (OKRs), operational indicators, and strategies; and lead execution to achieve objectives.
• Ensure performance objectives are cascaded to all Plant Leadership Team Members.
• Ensure Plant Leadership Team collaborates with each other to ensure coordination of activities and aligned decision making.
• Collaborate cross-functionally in an inclusive and supportive way to develop a strong, highly cooperative culture that enables achieving business objectives. This includes all functions such as quality, logistics, supply planning, finance, IT, R&D, human resources, sales, and marketing.
• Sustain a strong safety culture to ensure employees are working safely and injuries are prevented.
• Develop and maintain a plant environment that encourages full and active engagement with all team members, to ensure all ideas, suggestions, and feedback are heard and acted on.
• Ensure hourly team members understand plant performance indicators and receive regular feedback on the plant’s performance.
• Accountable for financial performance of operations, drives organization to identify and implement cost savings improvements that result in a continuously declining product standard cost.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, manage/ prevent risk, and maintain an effective business continuity strategy.
• Establish and sustain a culture of continuous improvement to identify and implement improvements in processes, work methods, and process execution that improve operational performance.
• Hire, develop and retain management and operations staff, and provide direction, mentoring, and motivation to build and maintain a high performing plant.
• Ensure that each department has the appropriate management and lead personnel who are responsible for fully training all positions to create an efficient and reliable operation.
• Participate in annual plan development, and direct communication, implementation and execution of operations plans.
• Establishes competencies with leadership team to: Efficiently execute production orders; Staff and operate all plant process and support equipment; Interacts with R&D management concerning product design and specifications to ensure efficient production methods.
• Demonstrates commitment to the development, implementation and effectiveness of Califia’s quality management system.

Benefits

• As a full-time employee, you will be eligible to enroll in Califia’s employee benefits program.
• You may also be eligible to participate in the company’s bonus program which may be subject to change.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees