Location: Conway,AR, USA
Westrock Coffee Company is dedicated to consumer insights and beverage innovation to create better products for our customers that support a better planet. We are the leading company within our industry providing efficient operations, traceable sourcing, and in-house expertise to support our blue-chip customers' evolving coffee, tea, and extracts and ingredients needs on a global scale. Our dedication to quality, data driven insights, and transparency throughout the supply chain provides tangible tools our clients rely on to support their ever-changing product and beverage solution demands.
Westrock Coffee seeks a results-driven Manufacturing Plant Director. As an experienced leader, you will create and implement a strategic vision and strategies for improved performance of our manufacturing operation. You will provide leadership, guidance, and direction to operations directors within your responsibilities to ensure that objectives are achieved. You are an expert at assessing and implementing continuous improvement opportunities while achieving performance objectives.
Based on performance, this position is a key part of Westrock Coffee succession planning to Vice President level positions including other key Operations and Strategic Business Units.
The Manufacturing Plant Director reports to the SVP, Manufacturing.
Primary responsibilities:
* Responsible for leading world class manufacturing facility
* Lead several corporate initiatives to improve overall operational effectiveness
* Oversee a highly automated assembly plant and a distribution facility along with the associated transportation and logistics teams
* Coordinates plant activities with departmental directors to ensure manufacturing objectives are met
* Develops and controls profits, plans, and budgets
* Working capital productivity, Implements cost effective systems of control over capital, expenditures, wages, and salaries
* Manages capital asset maintenance
* Establishes and monitors plant performance for production and quality standards
* Maintains plant facilities and equipment
* Talent development and succession planning
* Human and equipment utilization
* Financial profit delivery
* Create a safe working environment where people deliver world class quality products on time to our customers