Plant Manager - Day Shift

Perdue Chicken; Rockingham (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Plant Manager for the Rockingham facility. This role involves leading production and maintenance operations, ensuring efficiency, safety, and quality standards are met. The Plant Manager will supervise staff, develop innovative methods for operational performance, and promote a positive workplace culture. With a focus on continuous improvement and strong leadership, this position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a company committed to premium protein production and innovation. If you have a passion for leadership and operational excellence, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related work experience required.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in production and maintenance operations.
• Ensure timely and cost-efficient production and distribution.

Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

Customer Orientation

Supervisory Skills

Operational Performance Improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Ag-business

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Perdue Foods is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned company heading into its second century of growth and innovation. With a goal of becoming the most trusted name in premium proteins, we create products for consumers and for retail and foodservice customers around the globe, while changing the way animals are raised for food.

Summary

Perdue Farms is hiring a Plant Manager - Day Shift to support our Rockingham, NC Harvest facility! The Plant Manager's primary responsibility is to provide leadership and direction in the production and maintenance operations to ensure timely and cost-efficient production and distribution of Company products in a designated part of the plant. The Plant Manager (Breast Debone and Ground Chicken) will also provide day-to-day supervision of the management staff to achieve required production and quality standards in a safe manner, and for promoting and maintaining positive working relationships with the production group.

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Establishes, measures, and is accountable for operating and capital budgets for the operation in a manner to enable the operation to maintain a competitive position in the industry.
• Meets all facility operational plans, to ensure yield, birds per man hour, pounds per man hour, line efficiency, CSI and QI requirements are met.
• Ensures processes are in place to continuously reduce turnover, improve safety results as measured by the Safety scorecard and create the environment that will make the facility the Employer of Choice in the area.
• Ensures processes are in place to continually provide training to improve supervisory skills of staff and improve the skill set of the hourly production associates to maximize the results of individual and team efforts.
• Constantly develops new ideas and methods to improve operational performance and improve quality and customer reliability.
• Supports and promotes the Company's annual People, Products, Profitability and Planet goals through effective planning, communication, emphasizing the requirement for all team members to be efficient and effective in their respective responsibilities.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Ag-business or related discipline.

Experience Requirements

• 5 plus years related work experience.
• Should be computer literate with skill in Microsoft Office.
• Proven track record demonstrating ability to lead people and get results.
• Requires prior supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of and ability to provide strong customer orientation.
• Must be able to communicate to all levels of the organization; possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be able to travel to other facilities and plants for meetings and/or company business.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

1. May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
2. May need to access files, supplies and equipment.
3. When in a plant environment: Exposure primarily consists of wet and moist floors which include metal and plastic grating surfaces. May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity. May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db to 110 db. May be exposed to all chemicals used in poultry, food processing facility. Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company.

Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.