Summary
This role carries full accountability for achieving exceptional safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity standards while meeting or exceeding business objectives. The Director will leverage extensive manufacturing expertise, proven operational excellence, and collaborative leadership to inspire teams, optimize processes, and deliver sustainable results.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in a high-speed Food & Beverage manufacturing setting.
- Proven expertise in Lean Six Sigma and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies, with a track record of rolling out new programs effectively.
Summary:
- Ensure Compliance and Quality: Lead adherence to Safe Quality Food (SQF) and food safety requirements, ensuring plant operations comply with corporate policies, customer requirements, and budgetary constraints.
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and set plant objectives aligned with corporate goals and customer needs. Communicate production-related requirements and solutions across departments to meet operational targets.
- Performance Analysis and Reporting: Analyze plant performance metrics, discuss concerns with the management team, and conduct regular production meetings with plant employees and salary associates.
- Operational Oversight: Monitor operating departments to maintain high standards of production quality, sanitation, and safety. Ensure the fulfillment of customer orders meets quality, quantity, and cost specifications.
- Metrics and Resource Management: Manage key business metrics, including yield, labor efficiency, and overhead expenses. Demonstrate leadership to ensure consistent quality and effective communication of goals throughout the plant.
- Regulatory Compliance and Safety: Ensure compliance with OSHA, environmental regulations, and corporate standards. Investigate non-compliance issues, implement strategies to enhance safety, and reduce accidents, energy use, and waste.
- Human Resource Management: Oversee the deployment of human resources, ensuring proper administration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and effective workforce management.
- Quality and Food Safety Objectives: Review the SQF Annual Review checklist with management, set key food safety objectives, assign responsibilities, and ensure timely completion.
- Site Security and Business Continuity: Manage site security and food defense measures. Lead the Business Continuity Team in decision-making and crisis management, overseeing responses to incidents and ensuring effective continuity planning.
