Plant Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Food Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years’ of experience within a manufacturing environment; previous plant management experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment.
• Demonstrated leadership for safety and quality initiatives that drive zero-incident culture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience collaborating and influencing cross-functionally within an organization.
• Experience building and maintaining high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement across plant functions.

Responsibilities

• Directs and manages plant operations including safety, environmental, food safety, quality, production, maintenance, continuous improvement, training, and effective employee relations and engagement.
• Coaches and mentors others on effectively building strong safety culture, practices, and behaviors.
• Promotes a zero-incident culture by putting and/or supporting processes, systems, and programs in place to recognize hazards and prevent incidents before they occur.
• Ensure all unsafe acts and unsafe working conditions are addressed to completion.
• Effectively coaches and guides department leadership in the development of labor usage strategies; optimize resource utilization strategies while reacting to changes in production demands and deadlines.
• Coordinate plant activities through planning with departmental managers to ensure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Ensure personnel adhere to Tofurky’s internal policies, all legal requirements, and local/state health and safety regulations.
• Key partner with the Human Resources department to develop and drive positive employee relations and engagement.
• Provide leadership and training to accomplish Tofurky objectives.
• Supports the R&D team in new product and/or process development; supports production runs-costing of labor – and scrap/yield standards for new products.
• Analyzes and drives action for manufacturing variances within packaging and ingredients, yields/waste streams, line performance, and labor usage; leads management team to implement waste/loss reduction strategies.
• Continuous improvement site champion; responsible for building, implementing, and maintaining a continuous improvement mindset.
• Develops, implements, and manages KPIs within the manufacturing environment.
• Participates in and helps lead regulatory audits.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize both long and short-term objectives.
• Actively supports all company sustainability initiatives.

Benefits

• Bonus Eligible
• Relocation assistance is available for this position.