Plant Manager

Tofurky; Hood River (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tofurky is seeking a Plant Manager for its Hood River, Oregon operations. The role leads safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives, directing manufacturing, maintenance, and continuous improvement efforts on-site.

This position emphasizes building a strong safety culture and operational excellence across the facility. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least eight years of manufacturing leadership experience, preferably including plant management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Food Science, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in manufacturing; plant management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directs and manages plant operations including safety, environmental, food safety, quality, production, maintenance, continuous improvement, training, and employee relations.
• Coaches and mentors others on building safety culture and practices.
• Promotes zero-incident culture by implementing processes to recognize hazards and prevent incidents.
• Guides labor usage strategies and optimizes resource utilization with changing production demands.
• Coordinates plant activities with managers to meet manufacturing objectives cost-effectively.
• Ensures compliance with policies and health and safety regulations.
• Partners with HR to drive positive employee relations.
• Supports R&D in new product/process development and costing of labor and yields.

Skills

Leadership

Safety culture

Continuous improvement

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Food Science, or related field

Job description

The Plant Manager will lead the Tofurky manufacturing operations to meet or exceed safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives through effective utilization of personnel, equipment, systems, and facilities.The Plant Manager is viewed as a key leader and contributor in building and maintaining a strong safety, food safety, and operational excellence culture for our operations located in Hood River, Oregon.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Directs and manages plant operations including safety, environmental, food safety, quality, production, maintenance, continuous improvement, training, and effective employee relations and engagement.
• Coaches and mentors others on effectively building strong safety culture, practices, and behaviors.
• Promotes a zero-incident culture by putting and/or supporting processes, systems, and programs in place to recognize hazards and prevent incidents before they occur. Ensure all unsafe acts and unsafe working conditions are addressed to completion.
• Effectively coaches and guides department leadership in the development of labor usage strategies; optimize resource utilization strategies while reacting to changes in production demands and deadlines.
• Coordinate plant activities through planning with departmental managers to ensure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Ensure personnel adhere to Tofurky’s internal policies, all legal requirements, and local/state health and safety regulations.
• Key partner with the Human Resources department to develop and drive positive employee relations and engagement.
• Provide leadership and training to accomplish Tofurky objectives.
• Supports the R&D team in new product and/or process development; supports production runs-costing of labor – and scrap/yield standards for new products.
• Analyzes and drives action for manufacturing variances within packaging and ingredients, yields/waste streams, line performance, and labor usage; leads management team to implement waste/loss reduction strategies.
• Continuous improvement site champion; responsible for building, implementing, and maintaining a continuous improvement mindset.
• Develops, implements, and manages KPIs within the manufacturing environment.
• Participates in and helps lead regulatory audits.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize both long and short-term objectives.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Food Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years’ of experience within a manufacturing environment; previous plant management experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment.
• Demonstrated leadership for safety and quality initiatives that drive zero-incident culture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience collaborating and influencing cross-functionally within an organization.
• Experience building and maintaining high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement across plant functions.

This job operates in both a clerical, office, and manufacturing setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. This position is frequently required to enter the production floor and must follow personnel procedures pertaining to dress and code of conduct in that area.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, reach, stoop, kneel or crouch. The ability to frequently and safely lift and/or move up to 45 lbs. is required. The employee is occasionally required to sit and perform duties in a clerical setting.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a salaried, exempt position. Typical days and hours of work are Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. This role is on-site and remote work is not offered. Flexibility in work schedule is occasionally required to accommodate needs of staff on multiple shifts. Occasionally required to work long days and on weekends based on needs of the business.

Other Duties

Actively supports all company sustainability initiatives.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Authorization

Must be eligible to work in the United States of America.

We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of our customers and the communities we operate in to attract and retain the best talent, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, maternity, paternity or caring responsibilities, or any other basis protected by law.