Assistant Plant Manager

Assistant Plant Manager – Liquid and Powders

Glanbia   

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey  

The Opportunity  

As Assistant Plant Manager, you'll support the leadership of a fast-paced manufacturing operation producing liquid and powdered flavor products. You'll partner closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, R&D, Procurement, and Commercial teams to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality production while developing a strong culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proven manufacturing leader looking to expand their scope and influence within plant operations. The ideal candidate brings a combination of food manufacturing experience, people leadership, process improvement expertise, and a passion for driving results.

Essential Functions

• Help lead daily manufacturing operations across liquid and powder production areas.
• Champion a strong safety culture and support site EHS initiatives.
• Drive operational performance across quality, productivity, inventory management, and customer service.
• Develop, coach, and mentor frontline leaders and production teams.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives and customer expectations.
• Support food safety, quality systems, regulatory compliance, and SOP adherence.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, cost reduction, and operational excellence.
• Assist with production planning, inventory control, budgeting, and overall plant performance.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing leadership or production management experience.
• Experience leading teams within a food, beverage, ingredient, flavor, or related manufacturing environment.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience developing and coaching employees.
• Experience driving operational improvements and solving production challenges in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with liquid processing, dry powder production, spray drying, packaging, flavor manufacturing, or related food processing operations.
• Knowledge of food safety programs, SQF, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• ERP/MRP experience; SAP or Sage experience is a plus.
• Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, or other operational excellence experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Chemistry, Biology, or a related field.
• Lean/CI knowledge or any type of continuous improvement methodology. Demonstration of project leadership in continuous improvement and cost savings activities.
• Strong ability to work interdepartmentally in collaboration to meet and exceed customer expectations.

Where and how you will work   

The opportunity will be based in Sharonville, OH.

What we would like to offer you!  

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

About Glanbia  

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.