Plant Manager B Shift

Seaboard Triumph Foods•Sioux City, IA

13h

About The Position

The Plant Manager coordinates, leads, guides, and manages plant operations in accordance with company policies and procedures and applicable federal, state, and local laws. The role is accountable for employee management and safety, product quality, facility budgeting, and profitability, and develops processes to support stewardship, safety, quality, culture, customer relations, and productivity. The Plant Manager directly supervises operations management and hourly team members and has dotted-line responsibility for support groups, including Sanitation, Shipping, Maintenance, and Engineering, when department heads are absent. The position works with Human Resources and production teams to hire and train staff. The Plant Manager oversees shift operations and plant activities across departments, maintains regulatory and plant safety practices, ensures food safety and quality requirements are followed, and manages labor, materials, yields, supplies, costs, and waste. The role also works with vendors and suppliers, supports employee development and performance management, and maintains a productive working relationship with UFCW Local 2 while ensuring compliance with the collective bargaining agreement. The employee works throughout a production facility where temperatures and noise levels may vary. The role requires frequent standing, walking, reaching, handling objects, and other movement around the facility, as well as lifting loads of varying weights.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as agriculture, animal science, or business, plus ten years of plant experience; alternatively, an equivalent combination of education and experience that enables performance in all aspects of the position.
Supervisory experience.
Well-developed management skills and ability to lead a team using sound management principles.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write reports and business correspondence.
Ability to manage time effectively and meet specified deadlines.
Ability to read and interpret English-language safety files, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to communicate effectively with USDA, production, and management personnel.
Ability to apply mathematical concepts to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.
Ability to use computers and standard industry programs and learn and use other available computer programs.
Ability to work effectively in a production environment with varying temperatures and noise levels.
Ability to move around the facility and perform the listed physical tasks, including lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally.

Responsibilities

Initiate and maintain a safe workplace through effective safety and ergonomic programs, correcting deficiencies to support an injury-free workplace.
Communicate shift activity updates and necessary feedback to STF leadership.
Lead and facilitate the Safety Committee.
Implement goals to reduce injuries and injury claim costs.
Direct, coordinate, and evaluate shift operations and ensure operating procedures are followed and updated when needed.
Ensure employee safety training and help identify and correct safety hazards and ergonomic issues.
Ensure staff understand CCP, HACCP, and SSOP documents and plans.
Minimize product failures and foreign material issues and pursue continued improvement.
Oversee plant activities across all departments on the shift, including supporting areas.
Serve as a contact for vendors and suppliers.
Develop and adjust methods to meet production goals for quality, food safety, efficiency, hours, cost, and safety.
Develop and manage systems to track labor, product, and packaging costs and reduce budget costs.
Carry out managerial and supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.
Manage plant labor, raw material utilization, yields, supplies, and waste efficiently.
Interview, hire, train, plan, direct, and assign employee work; appraise performance; and reward or counsel employees as needed.
Facilitate training and development sessions to build company leaders' skills and education.
Develop and manage a productive working relationship with UFCW Local 2 and ensure compliance with the collective bargaining agreement.