Plant Manager

Summary: The Plant Manager oversees the day-to-day operations of the plant, including planning, delegating, coordinating, staffing, and decision-making to drive results while ensuring all production processes follow safety, sanitation, quality, and efficiency standards. This position has plant-level overall responsibility for managing P&L, strategies for achieving KPIs, instilling best practice workflows, and analyzing the efficiencies of the facilities’ processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as the senior level manager responsible for the day-to-day production and operations including but not limited to yields, gross margins, scheduling, management of both raw and finished goods, and human capital management.
• Works to ensure that overall company strategy becomes tactically meaningful at their location while encouraging innovation and creativity within the plant to improve operations and products and driving an ownership mentality encouraging all to identify and implement opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains.
• Leads the development and management operating budget for the location under the guidance of the VP Operations, ensuring efficient resource allocation and cost control, and escalates budget anomalies or risks and proactively acts to mitigate them with guidance.
• Continually assesses production performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinates the implementation and communication of programs to drive efforts that accomplishes established departmental and individual goals and objectives, including working closely with the VP Operations on yearly Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for the plant.
• Serves as the champion of all leadership and engagement efforts at the facility.
• Drives the training and performance management to establish an engaged workforce through efforts such as manager and staff training and employee committees (e.g. Celebration, Engagement, Safety, etc.).
• Demonstrates leadership in the retention of staff, reducing turnover, and increasing employee engagement.
• Engaged in all efforts related to loss prevention, risk management, USDA compliance, and employee relations.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in management, operations, or business, with 7 years’ work experience progressive leadership experience in relevant commercial food operations, preferably in a protein-related industry or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Proficient in MS Office, and knowledge of industry product reporting systems.
• Ability to solve a wide range of complex, multi-disciplinary problems that must consider short and intermediate-term company-wide planning.
• Ability to deliver presentations regarding potentially controversial issues, which involve negotiation, and influence positive outcomes among groups of varying positions.
• Ability to improve existing systems or procedures that periodically result in new ideas or approaches of considerable significance.