Plant Manager

Crown Bakeries; Pleasant Prairie (WI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in food manufacturing is seeking a Plant Manager in Pleasant Prairie to drive operational success through strong leadership, a focus on continuous improvement, and a commitment to high-quality production. The role involves overseeing all aspects of a highly automated bakery facility, ensuring efficiency and compliance with safety standards.

Qualifications

• Previous traditional bakery experience required.
• Multi-line food manufacturing experience.
• Familiarity with plant operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain policies and procedures for plant operations.
• Ensure smooth daily plant operations and machinery maintenance.
• Foster a positive work environment focusing on safety and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

Team Building

Continuous Improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Food Science, or a technical field

Job description

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Job Summary

Drive the success of our highly automated bakery manufacturing plant in Pleasant Prairie as the Plant Manager. Leveraging your strong baking expertise, you will lead all aspects of operations for the production of high-quality buns, bread, and croissants in one of our largest facilities. Your key objectives include developing the on-site team, maximizing production efficiency, optimizing resource utilization, and cultivating a zero-loss, continuous improvement culture to consistently surpass customer expectations. You will oversee production, quality control, maintenance, sanitation, inventory, and shipping/receiving, fostering a growth-oriented environment where individual contributions are valued.

Responsibilities

24/7 Plant Operation Duties:

• Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures related to all plant operations.
• Directs and approves purchasing of appropriate materials/supplies in a timely manner to meet customer and/or company objectives.
• Ensures production equipment/machinery is properly maintained, repaired, or replaced as necessary to maintain smooth daily plant operations.
• Make recommendations and support engineering of all existing equipment upgrades and new equipment installation.
• Understand, promote, assist, and adhere to all Environmental, Health and Safety Principles and be accountable to always conforming to them. Be accountable for assuring compliance with policies and support the facility safety, environmental and health programs.
• Formulates and approves short and long-term operating objectives in areas such as cost reduction, quality improvement, food safety, employee's safety, maintenance, new product development and/or integration at the plant level.
  
  

Management Duties

• Ensure compliance with all legal restrictions that affect employee safety, health, rights to equal opportunity, fair pay, privacy, and freedom from discrimination.
• Display high ethical standards, conducting all business and personal interactions with the highest integrity.
• Creating a positive work environment that supports continuous improvement, reinforces company philosophy and policies, and ensuring a safe, diverse, and inclusive workforce and positive employee/labor relations.
• Responsible for creating a plant environment where employees are involved in creating a safe, clean, and team-oriented workplace.
• Ensure excellence in performance and continuity of management through the effective selection, development, and motivation of a team of employees organized to optimize individual and group capabilities.
• Direct and delegate activities of plant personnel
• Hires, assures appropriate training, and evaluates job performance of plant personnel in coordination with Human Resources.
• Controls allocation and use of personnel to ensure fulfillment of production schedules in a cost-effective manner.
• Promotes a workplace safety culture, including conducting regular scheduled safety training and improvements to provide a safe working environment.
• Conducts regular scheduled departmental meetings enhancing communication throughout the plant.
• Ensures adherence to all established company policies and procedures through specialized training of supervisors. OSHA
• Ensure HAACP/SQF compliance.
• Collaborate with Human Resources and other function leaders to create and execute effective employee relations processes and develop managers to do the same to maintain a positive working environment.
• Drive a culture of high performance and accountability in employee and product safety as well as other aspects of the business.
• Responsible for annual plant operating goals and strategic initiatives as agreed upon with executive team.
  
  

Administrative Duties

• Responsible for the recommendation and assessment of training needs
• Analyzes, develops, and prepares the plant operating expense budget, monitoring and investigating discrepancies as situations arise.
• Prepares plant performance information for review by management and other reports as requested.
• Ensures compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations and requirements, as required, including environmental.
• Provides a leadership role in the integration of efforts throughout the plant promoting a positive work atmosphere.
• Promotes a positive image of the company, through community involvement.
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Food Science, or a technical field is ideal. Relevant work experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Previous traditional bakery experience required; baking bread/buns. Laminated dough experience is highly desired.
• Multi-line food manufacturing experience
• Demonstrated track record leading the improvement of operations while delivering day to day performance.
• Familiarity with the operations of all plant departments: production, quality, maintenance, materials management, etc.
• Participative management style and excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience building a cohesive management team.
• Strong business acumen and working knowledge process control and improvement tools.
• Ability to communicate both professionally and effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  
  

Work Environment

This position operates in a manufacturing plant environment. The employee will be routinely exposed to facility elements such as noise, dust, fumes, and odors. This role will also use standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

EEO Statement

Crown Bakeries is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment in our workplace and strive to foster a diverse and inclusive workforce. This EEO policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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