Plant Manager

Primary Purpose of the Role

The Plant Manager / Ops Director will lead the operations team in their lean journey and continue to help meet strategic growth plans.

This Manager / Director is accountable for managing the people, safety, quality, factory productivity, lean initiatives, & culture and will ensure the achievement of key KPI performance metrics within the manufacturing organization with focus on meeting/exceeding customer expectations.

The chief responsibility of this position is to manage the overall safety, food safety, quality, production, and training systems within the manufacturing site.

Our goal is to have an efficient, effective production system that meets our customer needs by eliminating waste everyday.

We accomplish this by finding ways to shorten lead-time, reduce inventory and reduce cost using PDCA in spite of any variable volume and economic downturn.

The chief responsibility of this position is to manage the overall safety, quality, production, and training systems within the manufacturing site.

The Plant Manager identifies, assigns, directs, and leads process improvement projects to improve the effectiveness of the manufacturing process insuring customer satisfaction and maximum profitability of the operation is attained.

This person plays a key role with the Distribution, Planning, Labor Relations, and Cost Accounting processes.

In addition they interfacing routinely with Customer Care, Marketing, Human Resources, Procurement, Sales, and manufacturing Production Managers, Graphic Manager, and Distribution Manager in the Oshkosh location.

Collaborative works with other divisions as required to take advantage of synergy opportunities and share best practices.

Essential Job Duties


* Model company values and Lean principles through personal actions/behaviors.



* Manage daily operations in alignment with basic plant management requirements.



* Develop team leaders to master processes within the group and coach other team members.



* Written and verbal communication upward, downward, and across the organization chart.



* Interacts Proactively with Union Leadership applying work rules and policies of the CBA consistently.



* Recommend/work with HR to address any labor/management grievances or disagreement.

Thorough understanding of collective bargaining agreement to permit effective management of staff.



* Direct accountability to safety performance of the operations - make best use of standard work and best practices to avoid any injury to any employee



* Leadership responsibility for manufacturing, distributing, and consistently maintaining safe and qualify food products by following good manufacturing practices, allergen controls, food defense, HACCP, and SQF requirements.



* Ensure standardized work is being followed.



* Troubleshoot and lead problem solving to prevent problems from reoccurring



* Take action to implement improvements quickly.



* Work with ...