10550- Plant Manager

Barcel USA; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barcel USA LLC in Bethlehem, PA seeks an experienced Operations Manager to oversee daily plant activities including manufacturing, maintenance, sanitation, inventory, food safety, security, and quality assurance. The role ensures compliance with environmental and corporate policies while upholding ethical standards.

You will plan objectives, manage resources, monitor performance indicators, and drive continuous improvement to achieve on‑time production and optimal product quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degrees in Administrative and Commercial Studies or Industrial Engineering.
• Proven ability to plan, organize and lead cross‑functional plant teams.
• Strong understanding of quality, safety, and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Plan tactical objectives and monitor budgets and investments.
• Ensure compliance with Grupo Bimbo standards for operations.
• Manage plant resources from materials to finished product delivery, ensuring quality and timeliness.
• Monitor product quality and lead corrective actions to prevent issues.
• Implement systems to ensure compliance with quality standards across products.
• Lead safety, environmental and crisis management activities and audits.

Skills

Operations planning

Leadership

Quality assurance

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's in Administrative and Commercial Studies

Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering

Job description

Watch over and organize the daily operations of manufacturing plant, maintenance, sanitations activities, plant inventory, food safety, security and quality assurance while ensuring environmental and corporate policies and legal regulations, following ever the moral principles and values of OBL. Oversee the effectiveness of employees and to make sure the activities are running smoothly, quickly, efficiently and safety.

What Will I Be Doing

• Participate in the planning of tactical objectives, projects and indicators and participation in budget preparation and investment spending.
• Ensure compliance with the standards established by Grupo Bimbo to control operations.
• Promote and analyze the feasibility of the OBL best practices for implementation and documentation in plant.
• Managing and planning the resources of the plant, from the supply of materials to the delivery of finished product, producing with quality, quantity and ever on time.
• Ensure compliance with the supply to the manufacturing process.
• Monitor the product quality and take corrective and preventive actions to improve the product.
• Implement and monitor systems to ensure compliance with quality standards in all products.
• Monitor the indicators to review the evolution of plant performance.
• Make the Production Plan since the Sales Forecast given by Supply Chain.
• Hold cordial relations and team meetings to maintain a healthy working environment and follow the same (through the work plan).
• Keep the interaction and relationship with institutional authorities, as well as government agencies and civil partnerships at the federal, state and local.
• Maintain a healthy work environment in the different functional areas of the plant.
• Follow up the compliance personnel structure.
• Develop personnel under his responsibility through talent management system: personnel evaluations, closing gaps, monitor work plans, among others.
• Participate in market visits to monitor the performance of the products.
• Follow up to the customer complaints system and ensure the implementation of corrective actions.
• Ensure the existence and maintenance of crisis management system at the plant.
• Follow up audits and internal certificates on sustainable processes.
• Implement and monitor continuous improvement systems.
• Achieving product profitability, in an atmosphere of productivity, production innovation, flexibility, sustainability, food safety and security.
• Promote the identification and replication of best operational practices to reduce costs.
• Evaluate projects to increase productivity in plants.

Qualifications

Qualifications

What Is Expected Of Me

• Bachelor of Administrative and Commercial Studies, Bachelor of Industrial Engineering
• Establishes ambitious objectives and orientates actions on achieving them.
• Analyzes, identifies and understands strategic information as well as market or company situations to enable decision making.
• Recognizes strategic market trends and opportunities and defines action plans to capitalize them.
• Evaluates possible risks and determines how and when to act to take advantage of identified opportunities.
• Assigns clear objectives and tasks to subordinates and other areas and ensures its execution.
• Enables the business´s viability by a good relationship and a constant interaction with other areas.
• Promotes communication, trust and a good working environment between team members, guiding them towards mutual objectives.
• Expresses ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner. Develops communication strategies that enable the achievement of objectives.
• Achievement of the company's objectives, through negotiations with providers and clients.
• Motivates and leads team members for their professional growth and the achievement of objectives.
• Location: Bethlehem, PA 18015

Barcel USA LLC

is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, disability, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, reassignment, layoff, discharge, education, training, and all other working conditions.

We believe diversity drives innovation and success. We proudly welcome applications from individuals with disabilities, veterans, and women, and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.