Plant Manager

Sunny Sky Products, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunny Sky Products, LLC is seeking a Plant Manager to optimize daily production operations, maximizing equipment, materials and staffing utilization, and driving continuous improvement. You will establish and review operational policies, supervise Production Supervisors and plant operators, and lead safety, quality and efficiency initiatives.

Responsibilities include leading the operations strategy to meet performance, quality and safety goals, controlling production costs and labor use,

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture and enforce health and safety policies.
• Develop, execute and monitor operations strategy to achieve performance, quality and safety improvements.
• Manage plant-level production costs, labor utilization, yield, safety, turnover and OTIF.
• Ensure adherence to Food Safety and GMPs and audit targets.
• Use data (OEE, line speed, efficiency) to drive productivity and uptime.
• Plan and implement capital improvements and budget execution.
• Align production activities with demand planning and customer delivery timelines.
• Identify and resolve safety issues and potential concerns.
• Support Marketing and R&D on new product initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with all policies for QA, Food Safety and customer specs.
• Coach and develop employees using Lean principles and performance reviews.
• Ensure compliance with plant and corporate procedures and regulations.
• Coordinate manufacturing with other functions and suppliers for optimal resources.
• Drive employee engagement, training and development to maximize safety, quality and productivity.

Job description

Responsibilities include optimizing daily production operations allowing full utilization of equipment, materials, and staffing resources to maximize efficiency and quality. The Plant Manager is also responsible for establishing and maintaining operational standards through development and review of operational policies and procedures, direction of the Production Supervisors and plant operators, and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.

Major Job Functions

• Ensure team member safety through enforcement of health and safety policies/protocols and through continuous promotion of a safety culture
• Lead the development, execution and monitoring of the operations strategy in line with the overall operational objectives to achieve performance, quality, and safety improvement and ensure achievement of manufacturing goals.
• Accountable for plant level production costs, labor utilization, yield results, Safety performance, Turnover, and OTIF.
• Ensures adherence to the Food Safety requirements and Good Manufacturing Practices, includingaudit targets.
• Utilize available data including OEE, line speed target, and efficiency and process data to continuously improve productivity, uptime and reliability.
• Develops, recommends, and implements Capital Improvement for plant, including the preparation and execution of a Capital Plant budget.
• Meet or exceed customer service level targets through the synchronization of process/activities with all functional area processes, from demand planning through to the delivery to the customer.
• Proactively identify and resolve safety issues or potential concerns.
• Support Marketing and R&D on new product initiatives.
• Responsible for adherence to all policies and procedures for Quality Assurance, Food Safety and customer specifications on a day-to-day basis.
• Continually coach, direct and train employees utilizing Lean principles. Monitor employees' work performance and attitude and perform formal reviews as required by policy. Coach and counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job skill deficiencies.
• Ensure all plant personnel are operating in compliance with plant and corporate procedures as well as in compliance with all customer and governmental regulations.
• Coordinates manufacturing activities with all other functions of the organization and suppliers to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources, machines and equipment.
• Drive employee engagement, training and development to maximize safety, quality, and productivity.

Travel Required

Yes . As need to visit other sites and customers.

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