Job Description

About The Job:

The ideal candidate will be overseeing the daily production operations of the plant. This role holds full management responsibility for the operations team, including overseeing personnel, defining roles and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, providing performance counseling, and contributing to employee pay decisions and adjustments.

salary: $135,000 to $140,000 annually

Full Time

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, plans, and directs the execution of operationally related issues for assigned areas through Team Managers.
• Designs strategies, procedures, and people utilization for improving reliability of equipment, efficiency, productivity, and performance while reducing inventory and waste while maintaining product quality and operating expenses for assigned areas.
• Creating an empowered environment (MHPS) to ensure that the Operations organization and its people understand the goals and objective (OGSM's) of the business and that they have the resource and support to accomplish them. Provide an environment which ensures and provides for open and healthy communications.
• Develop and maintain strong cross functional relationships to ensure that new and existing products are manufactured on time and in specifications to meet customer demand. Ensures strong relationships are developed and maintained with key customers and venders as they relate to the operations function to include fit for use materials and products.
• With the support of continuous improvement (CI) resources, establish and maintain comprehensive continuous improvement processes that maximize productivity, reliability, quality and safety.
• Oversees development and performance planning for current employees, as well as implementing strategic staffing strategies to ensure a robust and diverse succession plan. Ensures operations is appropriately staffed. Champions a thorough and consistent performance management approach for Operations employees.
• Creates operating budgets and capital budgets with other leadership teams members. Manage department expense budgets with appropriate accounting information and support. Participates in the business planning and budgeting process. Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.

Qualifications

• BSc in Relevant Technical discipline
• 7+ years functional/leadership experience Demonstrated significant and relevant skills and results in functional area
• Strong leadership experience with demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and people.
• Experience understanding and articulating how all areas of the plant interact to contribute to the business.
• Experience in or strong understanding of the Food Manufacturing industry.
• Commercial awareness as it relates to competition but only requires limited understanding of the latest developments in the industry.
• Strong Interpersonal Skills - leadership, interactions, communication, influence
• Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide and influence others.
• Ability to translate strategy into actionable information in small or large groups in a clear, concise, and professional manner.

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