One of the global leaders within the dairy industry is currently looking for a Senior Director of Manufacturing to join their growing team. This business has gone from strength to strength in recent years, there has been a focus on large scale capital investment along with a number of high profile mergers and acquisitions.
This is a brand new role that has been created out of growth as the business looks to continue their impressive growth within the US.
This is an onsite role, there is a generous relocation package to help fund a move.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working with the VP of Manufacturing and Plant Directors to set strategic goals and long term objectives for plants nationwide.
- Achieve the plant targets to ensure that the business is surpassing the customer needs and industry standards for safety, cost, speed, quality and product availability.
- Oversee a multi million dollar budget, ensuring that you don’t exceed that budget on an annual basis.
- Focus on employee retention at a plant level, working with Plant Directors and Plant HR teams to foster a positive working culture.
- Line management of Plant Directors, Associate Director of Manufacturing and EHS teams.
- Internal stakeholder management of Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain teams, ensuring these divisions are kept up to date with production process to ensure customer needs are met.
- Travel up to 50% of the time monthly.
The ideal candidate would be/have:
- Experienced in the dairy industry.
- Have a track record as a successful Plant Director.
- Good understanding of OSHA, FDA, USDA certifications.
- Experience of managing large teams with multiple layers.
