Balchem

Plant Manager

Balchem • $90K — $120K *
Sleepy Eye, MN 56085In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, food manufacturing, microbiology/food science, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of Production Management and leadership experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Proven ability to facilitate and lead teams, including coaching and mentoring staff.
  • Strong execution capacity and ability to implement effective systems.
  • Experience with production logistics, scheduling, and GMP systems; APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma training is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Direct daily plant operations while ensuring safety and professional standards.
  • Lead continuous improvement in safety and food safety culture.
  • Cultivate a customer-focused, high-performing team.
  • Manage production levels while adhering to strict safety and quality standards.
  • Own the plant capacity plan and update operating plans as needed.
  • Ensure production schedule adherence for meeting sales commitments.
  • Maintain clear communication and alignment of goals across various functions.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and succession planning.
  • Supportive and engaging work environment with a focus on respect and recognition.
  • Commitment to sustainability through waste reduction and value enhancement initiatives.
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 safety culture throughout the local site and Balchem. 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.
  • Develop key individuals for succession planning and organizational development.
  • Maintain production at desired level while adhering to strict safety, food 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 Process.
  • Ensure adherence to the production schedule to meet sales and commercial 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 plan.
  • Lead and own sustainability including waste reduction and value enhancement initiatives for the site.
  • Effectively utilize communicate with regional, corporate, and approved outside expertise to drive learning and continuous improvement into the plant organization.


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 + 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.


WORKING CONDITIONS:
  • Office and plant environment.
  • Some work in Production area which periodically reaches temperature above 100 degrees, noise above ambient levels, proximity to moving mechanical parts, potential exposure to chemicals which is constantly monitored, and wears respirator when manufacturing specified products.


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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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