Balchem

Plant Manager

Balchem • $90K — $120K *
Covington, VA 24426In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in technical field (engineering, chemistry, food science, etc.) required
  • 10+ years in Production Management/Supervisory role in manufacturing
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive sustained change
  • Experience with production logistics and scheduling essential
  • Familiarity with GMP systems; APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma training is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Direct daily operations to ensure safety and efficiency
  • Lead safety and quality improvement initiatives
  • Facilitate strong communication and training among staff
  • Manage production schedules to meet customer commitments
  • Align plant goals with corporate objectives and performance indicators
  • Conduct employee evaluations and foster a positive work culture
  • Implement waste reduction and enhancement strategies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Support for continuous improvement initiatives
  • Positive workplace culture that celebrates success
  • Potential for advancement within a reputable company
Full Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:

The Plant Manager directs daily plant operations while maintaining a safe, professional, and positive work environment. They are expected to make the most effective use of available work force and equipment, ensuring an efficient and coordinated work effort among all personnel. This position will be challenged to balance costs versus what is necessary to safely and reliability meet customer demand.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
  • Lead continuous improvement in the safety and food feed safety culture of the facility. Maintain high standards of performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and facilitate corrective action and preventive action plans at the site. Establish and continually improve a procedures-based culture.
  • Facilitate an agile, effective, and engaged work force through strong change management, communication, and training efforts.
  • Cultivate a high performing team with a customer-focused mindset.
  • Maintain production at desired level while adhering to strict safety, food feed safety, and quality standards.
  • Own the plant capacity plan and continually update operating plans based on inputs from Demand Planning and the Sales and Operating Planning Processes.
  • Ensure adherence to the production schedule in order to meet commitments to customers.
  • Maintain goal alignment between the plant, the manufacturing function, the business, and the corporation. Maintain key performance indicators and metrics scorecards to monitor performance against established goals. Continually review and ensure improvement plans are in place for all performance gaps.
  • Conduct periodic informal & annual formal employee evaluations.
  • Create & maintain a positive work environment where success is celebrated, along with communicating company policies and directives to employees
  • Develop and adhere to an annual operating & capital implementation plans.
  • Lead and own waste reduction and value enhancement initiatives for the site.
  • Effectively utilize regional, corporate, and approved outside expertise to drive learning and continuous improvement into the plant organization.
  • Other duties as assigned.


REQUIREMENTS:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a technical field of study such as engineering, chemistry, food manufacturing, microbiology/food science or a closely related field.
  • 10 + 5+ years Production Management & Supervisory/Leadership; experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment is highly recommended.
  • Ability to Facilitate & Lead in a Team Environment. Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, develop and train a strong facility team. Demonstrated strong execution capacity. Ability to create sustained change to more effective systems
  • Production logistics & scheduling, GMP systems. APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma training is a plus.


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About Balchem

Balchem Corporation is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical, medical sterilization and industrial markets. The company operates through four segments: Human Nutrition & Health, Animal Nutrition & Health, Specialty Products and Industrial Products. Balchem was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in New Hampton, New York.
Learn more about Balchem
Size
1,327 employees
Market Cap
$3.9 billion
Industry
Business Services
Net Income
$84.6 million
Founded
1967
5 Year Trend
+7.6%
Revenue
$703.6 million
NASDAQ
BCPC
* Ladders Estimates

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