Plant Manager, Associate

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

This position provides the leadership to the FDL East facility activities in processing, packaging, and sanitation, This position contributes to capital project initiatives which will position the organization to meet the business and customer demands and ensure the company leadership in the specialty cheese business. The position will integrate with other department leaders to manage for cost, quality, safety, delivery and morale in the facility and the continuous improvement of results in those areas. This individual plays a key role in new product development by driving the operations initiatives through our production system based on Continuous Improvement (CI) from development phase to product launch. This position also has P&L accountability for the plant so strong financial management skills are needed.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Establish financial and operating objectives Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI's) for area of responsibilities;
• Monitor all established KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, identify all deviation vs. objectives and implement pro-actively all required corrective action plan and follow-up with Plant Manager;
• Foster and operate in a continuous improvement environment;
• Oversee industrial developments and monitor KPIs for the Rogue Creamery
• Maintain cooperative and productive relationships with employees;
• Define organization and evolution along with the Plant Manager in relation with the Long Range Plan (LRP), and propose training, promotion and adjustment to reach the targeted organizational goal;
• Coordinate with other departments to develop and implement plant safety, food safety, environmental and quality initiatives;
• Coordinate plant scheduling with Supply Chain Department to maximize the order fill rate and minimize all material/finished goods inventories and 3 D;
• Coordinate with the Technical Manager, the implementation of capital projects;
• Must ensure the plant is run in an efficient & effective manner utilizing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's) to maintain a quality product manufactured in a safe environment;
• Contribute to the Production System based on CI implementation by promoting CI improvement tools in the CI project;
• Ensure adherence to Company policies, procedures and practices;
• Responsible for identification and implementation of cost reduction opportunities;
• Propose the capital project for his/her plant as he/she defines in the budget. Study, with the support of the Technical Manager, the project and his implementation;
• Ensure new product industrialization on production lines with the support of Technical and R&D Departments;
• Strive for fast continuous systematic planned improvement;
• Ensure full compliance with all Regulatory Requirements;
• Involved in developing Capex requests and building / maintaining Bill of Material (BOM) requirements;
• Conduct routine team meetings (daily/weekly/monthly as applicable), including continuous improvement routine meeting participation;
• Maintain documentation and performance logs of employees;
• Provide yearly reviews for employees;
• Maintain the timekeeping system and SAP.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related experience;
• Ten or more years of manufacturing experience;
• Experience in a metrics-driven environment;
• Experience in Lean manufacturing, Continuous Improvement Tools, CI implementation;
• Proficiency with software applications including: Outlook, SAP, Labware and Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English/bilingual);
• Ten or more years of management/supervisory experience;
• Knowledge of USDA, 3rd party and customer audits, SOP's, HACCP, FDA, OSHA, EPA and GMPs;
• Enthusiastic team leader with outstanding motivational skills, with ability to delegate and monitor Performance;
• Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and flexibility;
• Proven ability to define performance measures and KPI’s related to the business and hold associates accountable for the same;
• Strong proficiency with software applications including: Outlook, SAP, Lotus Notes, Labware and Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
• Ability to learn and manage quickly changing deadlines and conflicting priorities;
• Ability to handle high volume workload in an open environment with changing priorities and frequent interruptions.

Travel

This position requires up to 10% travel. Frequently travel is outside the local area and overnight.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position assists the Plant Manager with managing all employees of the department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in an office environment as well as on the plant floor. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and use fingers to type. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must occasionally lift or move items over 50 pounds.

Food Safety and Product Quality

This position is responsible for supporting the food safety management system and for communicating food safety issues to the Quality Department.

Affirmative Action Plan/Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Savencia Cheese USA provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.