What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Operations Director position at American Sugar Refining?
About the Role:
The Assistant General Manager will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of a sugar refinery facility with a large unionized workforce. This includes ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards, leading continuous improvement initiatives, and developing plans to achieve production volumes and profit projections.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure safety and regulatory compliance
- Lead manufacturing facility focused on continuous improvement and delivering world-class sustainable performance
- Provide guidance to site leadership team for continuous improvement initiatives
- Directly supervise, motivate, and evaluate site leadership responsible for refining and packaging activities, materials, and warehousing
- Create reports for manufacturing cost controls, cost estimates, capacity plan, manpower, and facility requirements
- Monitor manufacturing and financial performance and implement corrective action planning when needed to meet company objectives
- Implement Food Safety Quality Control functions to meet the Company's Quality System requirements
- Assure continuously updated line standards, the identification of bottlenecks, and proposals to eliminate
- Help develop, review, modify, and implement operating systems in sanitation, safety, quality, preventative maintenance, general manufacturing practices, and best management practices
- Develop and build capability of plant personnel, including support of performance and talent management activities
- Ensure that entire staff has the safety, customer, and quality as the overall focus
- Develop plans for implementing continuous improvement manufacturing principles
Requirements:
- 10-20 years' total professional experience with progressively responsible growth
- 5 years' experience in production management having had responsibility for managing departments and a minimum of 100 direct and indirect reports with budgetary responsibility
- Food or similar industry experience in a manufacturing environment preferred or a combination of food manufacturing with manufacturing experience in other similar industries preferred
- Demonstrated track record of understanding and applying continuous improvement principles and practices including Lean Manufacturing, 5-S, and/or Six Sigma
- Responsibility for managing safety and environmental performance
- Ideal candidate must have had a track record of responsibility for managing to high-quality standards including SQF in Food Industry or ISO in non-food industry
- Experience with unionized workforce strongly preferred
