Plant Operations Manager — Citrus Processing & Lean

The Wonderful Company; Mission (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continued training and Education Reimb

Job summary

Wonderful Citrus seeks an experienced Director of Operations to lead daily plant execution and production scheduling across juice processing and related operations. You will maximize throughput while balancing quality, maintenance, and labor needs in a fast-paced environment.

You will develop budgets, set KPIs, and drive improvements in safety, quality, reliability, and productivity. Travel to domestic and international sites is expected as part of overseeing multiple departments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and significant manufacturing leadership experience.
• 8–10 years of progressive manufacturing experience.
• 5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Experience managing production operations, employees, budgets and KPIs.
• Strong knowledge of industrial safety, quality systems and manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated experience improving safety, quality, reliability, productivity and cost.
• Strong analytical, communication and organizational skills.
• Travel domestically and internationally (~10%).

Responsibilities

• Own daily plant execution and production schedule; maximize throughput while balancing quality, maintenance and labor requirements.
• Plans and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
• Develop budget and cost controls, and obtain data regarding types, quantities, specifications, and delivery dates of parts and equipment ordered.
• Coordinate operations with agriculture/fruit supply, planning, quality, engineering, maintenance, warehouse, logistics and commercial teams.
• Confer with management to establish production KPIs and how they are monitored and reported.
• Maximize juice, pulp, oil and other valuable product recovery from incoming fruit; investigate losses and process inefficiencies.
• Reviews and analyzes production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.
• Develop and implement operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Production scheduling

Lean manufacturing

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ERP systems

MS Excel

Job description

Wonderful Citrus seeks an experienced Director of Operations to lead daily plant execution and production scheduling across juice processing and related operations. You will maximize throughput while balancing quality, maintenance, and labor needs in a fast-paced environment.

You will develop budgets, set KPIs, and drive improvements in safety, quality, reliability, and productivity. Travel to domestic and international sites is expected as part of overseeing multiple departments.