Plant Manager

NaturPak (previously known as IPM Foods) is hiring a Plant Manager as a full time, permanent role out of their Janesville, Wisconsin facility.

Plant Manager
NaturPak is a global leader of TetraPak Recart and producer of premium broth products. We offer a rewarding work environment with advancement opportunities while maintaining a small company, employee-focused atmosphere. We are currently searching for Plant Manager to manage and work alongside our talented team.

NaturPak, a member of the Trivest portfolio of companies, is a full-service contract food manufacturer and global leader specializing in Tetra Recart packaging, producing for large consumer products companies and national branded food retails. IPM’s food division focuses on brothers, soups and sauces; and its pet division focuses on the high demand “wet” pet food market.

Plant Manager Focus Area
Takes complete ownership and accountability for overall plant operations with a One Team One Goal mindset in order to meet business objectives. Through subordinates, supervisors, and managers, manage all manufacturing related functions such as employee engagement, safety, quality, customer service, continuous improvement, cost, and production objectives. Provides leadership and coaching to team members in the areas of employee engagement, safety, quality, customer service, continuous improvement, cost, and equipment reliability to elevate the team's performance. Success relies on the ability to build relationships and fully engage all employees in business improvement. This role will report to the VP of Operations.
Description and Responsibilities:

• Builds a strong culture of continuous product and process improvements through the application of appropriate problem solving.
• Builds a collaborative relationship with the Capital Plant Manager and team to ensure consistency and commonality across the organization.
• Guides, develops, implements, and promotes Company goals and objectives.
• Develop annual budget with input from cross functional teams.
• Reviews production orders and schedules to establish product data.
• Analyze production and other operational reports to identify loss points and yield opportunities, reacting quickly and effectively to mitigate problems to ensure minimum delays.
• Ensures optimum equipment utilization and maintenance to maximize productivity and efficiency.
• Carries out managerial responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, training, planning, and assigning work, and evaluating performance.
• Manage plant costs to ensure spend is in alignment with set budget.
• Meets with vendors and suppliers annually to initiate cost savings opportunities.
• Be a change agent for the facility by influencing and inspiring all team members.
• Create team engagement to find and resolve production limiters.
• Lead continuous improvement program to deliver opportunities in cost, quality, food safety and service.
• Conduct regular meetings with plant employees to ensure operational issues are being communicated and addressed expediently with a common understanding of goals.
• Manage inventory levels to ensure working capital, quality, and fill rate targets are met.
• Enable growth opportunities through building project justifications for capacity and capability upgrades.
• Build a strong team through setting clear objectives and expectations with measurable success criteria and provide development, coaching and resource support as needed.
• Helps develop a string bench of future leaders for all key positions at the facility.

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years’ experience as a plant/operations manager or director.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills (oral, written, listening) to engage effectively with all levels of the manufacturing operation
• Proven planning and/or project management capability to deal with concurrent issues and projects

When you join the team you take on our mission to genuinely care for our family of food manufacturers and producers. You become committed to improving their packaging solutions and operations and producing the products that become some of the world’s signature brands. Through their work, our employees express a passion for service, for reaching their full potential and together preserving and strengthening our unique company culture. This is a place where every employee is proud to work and make a difference.

If you are interested in learning more about a career with NaturPak as a Plant Manager, apply today!

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