What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Manufacturing position at Darigold?
Darigold is looking for a Vice President, Manufacturing to join our team. The Vice President, Manufacturing is a critical role in Darigold’s leadership structure. This individual will oversee the operations of our six B2B Plants through strong leadership and coaching of the Plant Managers and Site Directors, encouraging employee engagement in continuous improvement activities, high-touch involvement in lean manufacturing principles and executing successful outcomes against matrices developed and ensuring conversion costs are met with overall P&L responsibility.
The Vice President, Manufacturing must have strong organizational and leadership skills, customer focus, people skills, problem solving and a strong sense of integrity. The ability to make strong recommendations based on sound analysis, clear communication and presentation of information to management and employees is key. This leader will make ongoing operational recommendations to Senior Leadership on increasing efficiencies, capital equipment needs, staff development and overall facility improvements.
Darigold is the fifth largest dairy cooperative in the United States based on milk volume, and one of the largest privately held organizations headquartered in the state of Washington. Since 1918, our producers have taken pride in producing dairy products with unsurpassed quality. Today we are one of the nation's largest agricultural cooperatives, producing over 8.5 billion pounds of milk every year. Through innovative technology and our efficient, flexible production capabilities, we deliver value-added products and customer-driven solutions. Darigold is now known throughout the world for bringing fresh, wholesome dairy products and ingredients from the Northwest to people all around the globe.
What You Will Do :
- Responsible for the overall safe and successful operation of the manufacturing plants under your direction.
- Ensures accurate and timely delivery of company products to Darigold customers.
- Coaches plant leadership under your responsibility ensuring best in class manufacturing based on fact-based data supported by Darigold’s Performance System.
- Drives a positive and collaborative culture within the portfolio that emphasizes food safety, quality and best practices in line with industry standards all while driving employee engagement and pride to work at Darigold.
- Determines and drives plant manufacturing initiatives from start to finish, which optimize overall plant performance and implements performance indicators.
- Participates in the development of the Annual Operating Plan and is accountable for the plants under your responsibility, achieving the key metrics and budget based on the comforted authority and ensuring appropriate management of the resources allocated for the plants under your direction.
- Lead role in developing and executing long-range strategic plans, including capital projects, new product possibilities, future footprint and business partnerships, in alignment with Darigold’s short and long-term business plan.
- Drive high levels of sustainable change and best practices across the board to deliver a high-performance culture and capability including engagement, quality, safety and DPS.
- Focus on individual and organizational development, while actively focusing on talent development, retention and succession-planning, develop the talent bench and manage long-term succession planning by identifying, recruiting and mentoring high-potential employees.
- Ensure compliance with all Federal, State and local laws and governing bodies (e.g., employment law / regulations, OSHA, USPHS, DOT).
What You Bring :
Benefits of Working at Darigold :
We understand that as an employee, benefits that support you and your family in and out of work are important. We’re proud to offer eligible positions a competitive total rewards package that includes :
Our Commitment to Diversity :
Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Salary : $199,532 - $352,115
