Full Job Description
Summary
The Plant Manager is responsible for overseeing all operations of a food manufacturing facility, with full Profit & Loss (P&L) accountability. This role ensures the safe, efficient, and high-quality production of food products while meeting financial, operational, and regulatory objectives. The Plant Manager will lead a diverse team, driving continuous improvement, and maintain compliance with food safety standards, fostering a culture of operational excellence and employee engagement.
Essential Functions
• Full accountability for the facility's financial performance, including cost control,
budgeting, and forecasting.
• Develop and implement strategies to optimize profitability, reduce waste, and
improve operational efficiency.
• Management of multiple departments (direct reports include Production Leads,
Safety, Receiving, Dispatch, Maintenance, etc.).
• Drive lean manufacturing principles, continuous improvement initiatives, and
process optimization to enhance productivity.
• Promotes cross-functional goal alignment and common vision across functions.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as production costs, yield, labor
efficiency, and material utilization.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, including FDA, USDA, and HACCP standards.
• Maintain rigorous adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and food
safety protocols.
• Ensures machines are maintained as required to deliver and optimum utilization and
operational performance.
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes
workers to ensure compliance with standards.
• Meets and exceeds qualitative and quantitative performance standards as
established by management.
• Ability to function under highly stressful conditions and interact cordially with co-workers to accomplish common tasks.
• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, and collaboration while promoting employee engagement and retention.
• Implement training programs to enhance skills and ensure compliance with safety and operational standards.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of supervisors, production staff, and support personnel.
• Ensure preventive maintenance programs are executed to minimize downtime and extend equipment life
Core Competencies
• Problem Solving
• Customer Focus
• Budget and Cost Control
• Collaborative Leadership
• Communication Proficiency
• Managing for Results
Supervisory Responsibility
This position is responsible for the direction, coordination, and evaluation of the facility while on shift. This position carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to work independently as well as with and around others. There is frequent verbal and face-to-face contact. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Sensory and Physical Demands
The sensory and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to engage their sensory functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Although this job is primarily sedentary and requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time, employees may be regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Occasionally employees may be required to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, lift, carry, pull, push and/or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
Intellectual Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to read, write, and interpret a variety of instructions furnished in but limited to written, oral, visual, diagram, or schedule form. Employees will work under significant time constraints, apply memorization, analysis, apply perception/comprehension skills, spontaneous thought, judgment, and manage time in completing assignments. The employee is required to use decision-making skills, practically solve problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists, communicate effectively, articulate ideas, respond to inquiries, handle conflict situations, perform mathematical calculations reasonably necessary to satisfactorily perform job duties, and to make decisions based on department and organizational goals.
Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are dependent on operational needs and may vary, Monday through Sunday. The employee is required to be available as scheduled and may be required to be available for extended hours. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. No travel is expected for this position.
Required Education and Experience
A bachelor's degree or its equivalent. Position experience may be substituted to meet the educational requirements using a 2:1 ratio where 2 years' experience equals 1-year education.
