Plant Operations Manager - Food - Billingual

CSG Talent; Arizona; Sur place; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CSG Talent is seeking an experienced Plant Operations Manager for a leading food manufacturing client in Arizona. The role leads a key business unit across the plant, promoting performance standards and driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include achieving production targets, collaborating across functions to meet KPIs, reducing downtime, and identifying opportunities to enhance yields while maintaining quality and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Bilingual ability is mandatory.
• Strong written and verbal communication in negotiations and conflict resolution.
• Experience managing budgets, industrial relations, and operations.
• Experience planning workflow, setting priorities, and meeting deadlines in projects/contracts.

Responsabilités

• Promote and uphold performance standards including on-time delivery, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Build an engaged workforce using the employee engagement framework.
• Collaborate with sales, livestock, engineering, HR, and finance to hit KPIs.
• Ensure daily production targets are met and products meet specs.
• Identify opportunities to improve yield while maintaining specifications.
• Develop metrics for departments to drive commercial and operational outcomes.
• Manage manning levels to minimize overtime while meeting targets.
• Ensure adherence to company policies by all employees.
• Investigate new product development and revenue opportunities.
• Lead adoption of new technologies to reduce labour and improve yields.
• Maintain efficiency across processing facilities.
• Develop preventive maintenance plans and conduct root cause analyses for downtime.
• Control operational costs per annual budget; explore cost-reduction opportunities.

Connaissances

Bilingual

Communication skills

Negotiation

Project management

Description du poste

Our client is an industry leader in the Food and Beverages Manufacturing industry specifically in food manufacturing 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 Operations 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 manfacturing industry, at least five of which must have been at a senior management level.
• Bilingual a must 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).