Plant Manager - Ready to Eat (RTE) ( {{city}})

The Plant Manager must have the ability to lead, coach, and mentor employees. Visibility on the production floor is a must to assure safety standards, product quality, and regulatory compliance. The Plant manager will be able to develop a team atmosphere and create a safe and calm work environment. The Plant Manager will drive efficiencies, determine goals for each department.

This is a hands-on position and requires a large portion of time in the plant as opposed to the office. The successful candidate will provide the hands-on leadership experience and guidance required to provide best-in-class product offerings. This individual will drive efficiencies in operations and must be cost effective while growing revenues and profits. The Plant Manager will proactively foster the family mentality among all employees and create a cohesive and goal-oriented environment. He/she will lead employee development to new levels of competency in their job responsibilities with the goal of building bench strength within the organization for future leadership positions.

Specific Job Functions:

Drive high standards in operational efficiency, quality, and accuracy

Provide overall leadership and direction to management and staff.

Responsible for implementing and managing strategies to increase efficiency, maintain quality, and ensure continuous improvement.

Utilize the full capabilities of cost analysis, purchasing, capacity planning, and forecasting.

Develop and implement tracking programs to monitor goals, progress and provided trend analysis to management

Monitor operations training programs. Schedule and manage the operations workforce

Establish and achieve individual and departmental goals and budgets

Focus on employee development programs

Involved in production and materials planning.

Provide failure analysis and corrective actions

Responsible for ensuring the employees follow GMP and safety guidelines

Report daily activity results to senior management

Qualifications:

7 + years experience as an accomplished senior manager in the food manufacturing industry of a cooked and RTE meat product.

Great management and organizational skills including a track record for attracting the right people and developing a cohesive culture that fosters teamwork and efficiency.

HACCP Certification knowledge

A college or university degree is strongly desired or

Equal qualifications thru work history

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Strong multi-departmental managerial skills

High standards in food safety, workplace safety, and sanitation

Training program development and implementation experience

Strong budget development and management skills

Logistics experience is highly preferred to lead a growing department