Plant Manager

Balchem Corporation•Sleepy Eye, MN

17d

About The Position

The Plant Manager directs daily plant operations while maintaining a safe, professional, and positive work environment. The role makes effective use of the available workforce and equipment to ensure efficient, coordinated work, balancing costs with what is necessary to meet customer demand safely and reliably. The manager maintains production and quality standards, oversees plant capacity and scheduling, monitors performance, develops employees and teams, and leads continuous improvement and sustainability initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a technical field such as engineering, chemistry, food manufacturing, microbiology/food science, or a closely related field.
10 or more years of production management and supervisory or leadership experience.
Ability to facilitate and lead in a team environment.
Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, develop, and train a strong facility team.
Demonstrated strong execution capacity.
Ability to create sustained change toward more effective systems.
Experience with production logistics and scheduling and GMP systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment is highly recommended.
APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma training.

Responsibilities

Lead continuous improvement in the site's safety and food safety culture.
Maintain high performance standards and regulatory compliance, and facilitate corrective and preventive action plans.
Establish and continually improve a procedures-based culture.
Support an agile, effective, and engaged workforce through change management, communication, and training.
Cultivate a high-performing team with a customer-focused mindset.
Develop key individuals for succession planning and organizational development.
Maintain production levels while adhering to safety, food safety, and quality standards.
Own the plant capacity plan and update operating plans based on Demand Planning and the Sales and Operating Planning Process.
Ensure production schedule adherence to meet customer sales and commercial commitments.
Maintain goal alignment across the plant, manufacturing function, business, and corporation.
Maintain key performance indicators and scorecards to monitor performance against established goals.
Review performance gaps and ensure improvement plans are in place.
Conduct periodic informal and annual formal employee evaluations.
Create and maintain a positive work environment, celebrate success, and communicate company policies and directives to employees.
Develop and adhere to an annual operating and capital implementation plan.
Lead and own site sustainability, including waste reduction and value enhancement initiatives.
Use and communicate with regional, corporate, and approved external expertise to bring learning and continuous improvement to the plant organization.