Position
• Plant Manager
• Pay Rate: Commensurate with experience
• On-site
We at Raise are hiring for one of our key clients in the Food and Beverage industry. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, our client’s team is expanding to meet rising demand.
They’re looking for someone with leadership ability to make an impact at their organization. It’s a great chance to take on new projects, new teams, and make your mark on a growing business. If you’ve got the right mix of skills and industry experience, this could be the perfect role for you.
Our client takes pride in their people. When you join their team, you’ll find a workplace that facilitates challenge, achievement, and growth.
Responsibilities:
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of the production, maintenance, sanitation, and food safety.
• Manages the human resources of the unit according to authorized policies and procedures that fully conforms to current laws and regulations.
• Ensures compliance with local, state, and federal regulations (OSHA, FDA, Wage and Hour).
• Formulates and oversees internal controls.
• Ensures business decisions are grounded in sound financial and ethical criteria.
• Provides insight and analysis to support Chief Officers and other senior executives.
• Embraces and implements industry standards such as KPI’s, best practices and performance standards.
• Leads and develops staff to ensure professional, high quality succession planning.
• Directs and coordinates the activities of departments engaged in food processing.
• Develops, implements, and maintains production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.
• Reviews and interprets financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity and efficiencies and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.
• Performs difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures.
• Recruits employees, assigns, directs, and evaluates their work, and oversees the development and maintenance of staff competencies.
• Defines performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of production factors.
• Reviews processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Establishes, implements, and oversees departmental policies, standards, budgets, production goals, and objectives, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
• Maintains a working knowledge of government and industry quality codes and standards.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with management, subordinates, and outside contacts and use these relationships to develop business unit.
• Monitors and controls financial resources and oversees budgetary spending.
• Acts as SQF Food Safety and Quality Practitioner for facility with authority to address issues identified and reported by management and employees.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
• Manages subordinate Assistant Plant Manager with supervisory responsibility to employees engaged in food processing.
• Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the production business units. 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.
Qualifications:
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
• High School Diploma or GED;
• Bachelor's Degree (B. S.) from four-year College or university;
• 7-10 years’ related management experience and/or training
• 10 years experience in production industry, food production preferred
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• HACCP, SQF Practitioner, PCQI, Certified Baker
• Valid Passport book or the ability to obtain one with 3 months of hire.
Applying with Raise
Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years’ experience connecting talented candidates with meaningful work. When you apply, you’ll get more than just a chance at a great job—you’ll gain access to a vast network of employers that are always hiring.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of our communities. We encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGTBQIA2S+, veterans, and people with visible/non-visible disabilities.
If we can make this easier through accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or hello@raiserecruiting.com.
