Plant Manager

Job Summary:

The Plant Manager is directly responsible for leading all plant activities at our RTE poultry processing facility located Valley, AL. This includes but is not limited to overseeing all daily operations of the plant from production and manufacturing to ensuring policies and procedures are followed. The Plant Manager develops processes that will maximize stewardship, safety, quality, culture, customer relations, and productivity.

Supervisory Responsibilities If Any:

• Production and maintenance managers, shift supervisors, and plant employees

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Management Capabilities

• Lead staff to ensure production methods and procedures are followed and products are produced safely and efficiently.

• Constantly drive for improvements in safety, productivity and efficiency.

• Coordinates the activities of all departments utilizing excellent communication and developing efficient production methods.

• Display a continuous improvement mindset and use progressive visual tools, production reporting, employee involvement teams, performance measurement, and other techniques to improve facility performance.

• Ensures that Maintenance supports the operation in an effective and efficient manner and prioritizes maintenance reliability programs.

• Utilize production data to manage the facility and provide the company with timely, thorough and accurate information.

• Works with other input departments and their leadership to ensure the service levels from the plant.

• Recommend and research capital improvements to improve efficiency, quality, or safety.

• Develop and contribute to long term strategic planning for the plant.

Product Quality & Integrity

• Ensure all plant employees are trained on procedures and adhere to the expectations of regulatory intent.

• Works with the Manager of Quality Assurance to ensure the plant quality assurance facilities, documentation, methods/techniques, and staff capability meet or exceed industry standards.

• Works closely with Quality Assurance personnel and the Production (Operations) Manager to minimize and eliminate out of specification product produced or shipped.

• When quality incidents do occur, work with Plant staff, the technical staff and the corporate office to take steps against reoccurrence of that issue and to mitigate any ramifications that might arise from the field.

• Monitors all audits, working with Plant staff, the auditing agency and the corporate office to correct all deficiencies in a timely and cost-effective manner.

• Ensures Plant facility and grounds meet or exceed the security guidelines set forth by the company.

Safety

• Works with Operations supervisory staff, Safety Manager / Director and Safety Committee to ensure a lost time accident rate equivalent to or less than the national safety committee's average for businesses of our type.

• Is an active member of the plant safety team.

• Displays safety mindedness to facility meets core safety procedures.

Sanitation/Housekeeping

• Ensures that all employees adhere to GMPs.

• Participates in all Plant sanitation audits and coordinates corrective and preventative actions.

• Works with the Plant staff to ensure all areas of the facility are maintained in a clean, neat and orderly fashion.

Cost Control

• Develop and operate within an approved budget; areas of concentration to include staffing, supplies, maintenance, utilities and capital projects.

Human Resources

• Able to build teams and unlock individual potential.

• Fosters a culture that understands and displays the company's core values, mission and vision.

• Is proactive and participates in all operations training activities as needed.

• Participates in on boarding and employee engagement activities as needed.

• Coordinates personnel needs with supervisors and other managers.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in management or another related field preferred.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years management experience in a RTE poultry processing plant manufacturing environment.

• Possess excellent leadership skills.

• High level knowledge in RTE poultry processing equipment, GMPs, HACCP, OSHA and plant safety practices.

• Must have strong ERP systems knowledge and understand MRP, and material control & inventory transaction reporting.

• Must be committed to the manufacture of safe, legal, quality food products.

Work Remotely Yes or No: No

Travel:
Less than 10%

Job Type:

Full-time

Benefits:

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

• Dental insurance

• Company paid Short Term Disability

• Voluntary Long-Term Disability

• Company paid Basic Life Insurance $50k

• Voluntary Life Insurance

• Voluntary Accident Insurance

• Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance

• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• EAP - employer paid

• 401(k) matching

• Vacation time

• Sam's Membership - employer paid