Plant Manager

We are seeking a Plant Manager to provide full operational leadership for a large-scale food production and distribution facility serving airline customers, with approximately 400 employees. This role is responsible for overall site performance, including Operations, Finance, Quality, Health & Safety, and Customer Relations. The Plant Manager ensures the safe, compliant, and efficient production and delivery of prepared meals and related products to airline partners, while driving productivity, cost control, service reliability, and product quality. This position leads cross-functional teams, aligns daily operations with business objectives, and ensures strict adherence to food safety and regulatory standards in a high-volume, time-sensitive environment. The role also maintains strong customer relationships, ensuring service levels and contractual requirements are consistently met. The position is accountable for financial performance, operational KPIs, workforce leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives across the facility, ensuring smooth coordination from production through delivery. Key Responsibilities Assume all the tasks related to the management of the inflight unit (monitoring of operations, financial management, customer relations, team animation) and more particularly Guarantee the level of quality of the services Newrest provides to its customers and ensure the respect of Newrest's commitments to its customers Optimize Financial goals Implement the group's strategy to achieve turnover growth in line with development of set objectives Steer the continuous improvement process of the unit Identify activities with no added value that must be eliminated, carry out audits on work methods and procedure, detect problems, outline the most problematic, and encourage the implementation of corrective actions Ensure the quality of relationships with all authorities, service providers, internal and external contacts of the unit Ensure that production, organization, verification of figures and forecasts, run smoothly Be responsible for the maintenance and cleanliness of the unit and ensure all repairs are effectively and efficiently carried out Optimize human resources management and maintain productivity ratios in line with group standards Maintain a good social climate and ensure to respect the agreements as well as the regulations in force Ensure the good image of the company (outfit, condition of trucks, buildings, etc.) Ensure the application of the group procedures and standards (sales, operations, finance, purchase, QHSE #J-18808-Ljbffr