Plant Manager - Ready to Eat (RTE)

Corporate and Technical Recruiters, Inc.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Corporate and Technical Recruiters, Inc. is seeking a Plant Manager for our Columbus, OH facility. This hands-on role requires spending substantial time on the plant floor to lead, coach, and mentor staff, ensuring safety standards, product quality, and regulatory compliance.

The candidate will drive efficiencies, set department goals and budgets, and foster a cohesive, family-like culture while growing revenues and profits through strong leadership and employee development.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of senior management experience in food manufacturing, cooked/RTE meat products.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and team-building skills with a track record of fostering cohesive cultures.
• Degree strongly desired or equivalent work history qualifications in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor plant staff on the production floor with a focus on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive operational efficiency and implement continuous improvement and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Develop and manage budgets, goals, and tracking programs; monitor progress and provide trend analysis to leadership.
• Oversee production and materials planning and ensure GMP compliance and safe working practices.

Skills

Leadership

Team building

Strategy execution

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in relevant field

Job description

The Plant Manager must have the ability to lead, coach, and mentor employees. Visibility on the production floor is a must to assure safety standards, product quality, and regulatory compliance. The Plant manager will be able to develop a team atmosphere and create a safe and calm work environment. The Plant Manager will drive efficiencies, determine goals for each department.

This is a hands‑on position and requires a large portion of time in the plant as opposed to the office. The successful candidate will provide the hands‑on leadership experience and guidance required to provide best‑in‑class product offerings. This individual will drive efficiencies in operations and must be cost effective while growing revenues and profits. The Plant Manager will proactively foster the “family” mentality among all employees and create a cohesive and goal‑oriented environment. He/she will lead employee development to new levels of competency in their job responsibilities with the goal of building bench strength within the organization for future leadership positions.

Specific Job Functions

• Drive high standards in operational efficiency, quality, and accuracy
• Provide overall leadership and direction to management and staff.
• Responsible for implementing and managing strategies to increase efficiency, maintain quality, and ensure continuous improvement.
• Utilize the full capabilities of cost analysis, purchasing, capacity planning, and forecasting.
• Develop and implement tracking programs to monitor goals, progress and provided trend analysis to management
• Monitor operations training programs. Schedule and manage the operations workforce
• Establish and achieve individual and departmental goals and budgets
• Focus on employee development programs
• Involved in production and materials planning.
• Provide failure analysis and corrective actions
• Responsible for ensuring the employees follow GMP and safety guidelines
• Report daily activity results to senior management

Qualifications

• 7 + years experience as an accomplished senior manager in the food manufacturing industry of a cooked and RTE meat product.
• Great management and organizational skills including a track record for attracting the right people and developing a cohesive culture that fosters teamwork and efficiency.
• A college or university degree is strongly desired or
• Equal qualifications thru work history

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• High standards in food safety, workplace safety, and sanitation
• Training program development and implementation experience
• Strong budget development and management skills
• Logistics experience is highly preferred to lead a growing department