Plant Manager - Food - Bilingual

CSG Talent; Arizona; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CSG Talent is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to lead a key food and beverage production unit in Arizona. The role requires senior leadership experience, strong cost controls, and a focus on continuous improvement across operations.

The successful candidate will drive production targets, ensure product quality and compliance, and work closely with sales, engineering, HR, and finance to achieve strategic KPIs. Bilingual ability is a must.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' experience in food manufacturing industry, with at least 5 years in senior management.

Responsibilities

• Promote and uphold performance standards (on time delivery, quality, CI, work ethic).
• Build engaged workforce through employee engagement framework.
• Collaborate with sales, livestock, engineering, HR, finance to hit KPIs.
• Ensure daily production targets and product specs are met.
• Identify opportunities to improve yields while maintaining specs.
• Develop metrics for departments to drive outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Manage manning levels to minimize overtime and meet production targets.
• Lead investigations into new product development and revenue opportunities.
• Investigate new technologies to reduce labour and improve yields.
• Maintain efficiency across facilities and implement preventive maintenance.

Skills

Food manufacturing

Senior management

Workflow planning

Communication

Operations

Budgeting

Industrial relations

WHS/IM

Job description

Our client is an industry leader in the Food and Beverages Manufacturing industry specifically in baked goods manufacturing Bilingual is must for this role 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 Continue s 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 8 years' experience in food manufacturing 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).