Plant Manager - Bilingual - Baked Goods

CSG Talent; United States; On-site; USD 165,500 - 248,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Pension plan

Job summary

A leading company in the Food and Beverage Manufacturing sector is seeking an experienced Associate Director to lead a key business unit across the plant. The role requires a minimum of five years of experience at a senior management level in the beverage industry. Responsibilities include ensuring production targets, enhancing operational efficiency, and leading workforce engagement initiatives. Competitive salary ranging from $165,500 to $248,200 with benefits including medical, vision, 401(k), and a pension plan.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in the beverage industry at a senior management level.
• Ability to organize and plan workflow, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Experience with operations, budgeting, and Industrial Relations.

Responsibilities

• Promote company performance standards and ideology.
• Build a highly engaged workforce through positive engagement.
• Collaborate with sales and other functions to achieve business goals.
• Ensure all daily production targets are met.
• Lead investigations into new technologies to improve yields.

Skills

Project and contract management

Communication skills

Operations management

Budgeting

Negotiation skills

Job description

Job title

Associate Director - Specialist Headhunter - Food/CPG, Manufacturing, Operations and Engineering – USA at CSG: The Global Talent Expert

Overview

Our client is an industry leader in the Food and Beverages Manufacturing industry specifically in baking industry and fresh baking goods. They also continue to invest heavily in the development of new products and responding to consumer demands and are experiencing fantastic growth and feedback from newly developed healthy product offerings. They are seeking an experienced and driven Plant Manager to lead one of their key business units across the plant.

Key Responsibilities

• Promoting and upholding company performance standards and ideology (on time delivery, quality, continuous improvement and work ethic).
• Build a highly engaged workforce through positive engagement utilising the employee engagement framework which creates an environment where TFI are recognised as the employer of choice in the local community.
• Collaborate with and work closely with TFI sales, livestock, and other group functions such as engineering, HR, finance to achieve shared business KPI's.
• Ensure all daily production targets are met and that all products meet company and client specifications.
• Identify opportunities to enhance yield recovery whilst maintaining specifications.
• Develop key metrics for all departments to deliver commercial and operational outcomes, performance and process improvement.
• Ensure work areas/department are operated to agreed manning levels based on production target continues and minimise overtime.
• Ensure all employees are following company instructions / policies.
• Investigate new product development and revenue opportunities.
• Lead investigation into new technologies that will support the operational requirements to reduce labour, improve yields etc.
• Maintain and advance efficiency in every aspect of TFI livestock processing facilities.
• Ensure proactive preventive maintenance plans are developed and Root Cause Analysis for major downtime events conducted.
• Control all associated operational costs according to prevailing annual budget forecast.
• Investigate opportunities to reduce costs - packaging, process improvement, design modifications and automation.
• Ensure all administration requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Negotiates, as directed and within establishes policy, with employees and union organisers on day-to -day industrial matters.

Key Requirements

• Minimum 5 years' experience in beverage industry, at least five of which must have been at a senior management level.
• Demonstrated ability to organise and plan workflow, set priorities and meet deadlines in a project and contract management context.
• Well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written in negotiation, facilitation, report preparation and conflict resolution.
• Extensive experience with operations, budgeting and Industrial Relations.
• Experience with the planning and management of facility (desirable).
• Experience with WHS & IM, preferably in a self-insured employer environment (desirable).

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Manufacturing and Engineering
• Industries
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Baked Goods Manufacturing

Salary

United States $165,500.00-$248,200.00

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Pension plan