Plant Manager
Kinsa is recruiting for a: Plant Manager (Food Manufacturer)
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Summary:
Our client is passionate about their food products and their people. They are currently seeking a Plant Manager to join their successful team.
The Plant Manager is responsible for managing the overall P&L results of the plant from a manufacturing perspective, while strictly adhering to Employee Safety, Food Safety and Quality standards. Efficiently run plant operations from ingredient input to product output. Direct accountability for operations, sanitation, and maintenance while partnering with quality, human resources, finance, research and development, sales, marketing, and supply chain.
Successful candidates Must have experience leading maintenance and food safety teams. Also must have union environment experience along with a bachelor's degree.
Responsibilities:
- The Plant Manager is the senior leader at the facility and is responsible for all the activities that go on inside and on the outside grounds of the plant location
- This dynamic leader will have a relentless focus on creating a safe environment (food safety and work environment), production efficiency, product cost, continuous improvement, ensuring a focus on talent retention, development, and driving business results the right way.
- Manage all plant costs and key performance indicators including but not limited to production costs, labor expense, quality standards, maximum plant efficiencies, and facility up-keep. Constantly looks for areas of improvement and leads those efforts while collaborating with key stakeholders.
- Complies with all GMP, company policy, regulatory, and food safety requirements.
- Build and keep a strong employee culture through positive employee engagement efforts.
- Maintains facility capital improvement plans and process; partnering with finance and other staff to prepare and execute budget and plans.
- Select and Train plant supervisory and operations staff and conduct employee performance reviews.
- Schedule and conduct plant meetings, run problem solving exercises, understands lean production and drives continuous improvement activities.
- Manage overall budgets and costs
- Provides support to sales, marketing, and research & development on commercialization of efforts for improving and new products.
- Ensure the plant is up to standards with all federal, state, and local laws.
- Partner with HR on hiring, implementing training programs, develop strategy to drive a high performing and effective organizational culture - ensuring that all workers understand production processes and routines.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business management/administration, engineering, operations, or food science.
- 7-10 years of related experience, specifically in food manufacturing 3-5 years
- Managing hourly and exempt level employees
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to strategize, organize, problem solve and plan
- Experience working in a unionized plant setting