Plant Manager

Plant Manager, Food Manufacturing, Colton, CA (on-site).

$125K to $140K Base

• Our client is looking for a Plant Manager who will be responsible for general supervision of the conversion aspect of the bakery operations, including production, quality control, maintenance, and sanitation.
• Responsibilities also include recruiting, hiring and training personnel, facility/physical plant upkeep, and capital improvements. In addition, the Plant Manager will be responsible for annual budget planning and execution.
• They will work closely with the production team to increase productivity and profitability within the manufacturing operation.
• This person must be experienced in manufacturing operations and have at least 7 years of experience, including best practices in both managerial and production platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide leadership for the facility's successful day-to-day operation

Work closely with quality personnel to review products for food safety and quality while monitoring scrap rates to determine trends and areas of improvement.

Review established production schedules for manufacturing to ensure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible.

Coordinate the hiring and training of all manufacturing personnel

Work closely with all members of the manufacturing team to ensure awareness of safety policies to provide a safe workplace for our employees.

Maintain and support a superior safety and housekeeping program, including all timely communication initiatives

Develop and execute plant manufacturing budgets

Analyze workforce requirements

Conduct performance appraisals and coach all operations employees

Encourage and promote continuous improvement

Remove production constraints; allocate human and equipment resources and direct production employees to attain all established goals.

Remove waste and constraints from the production process to improve efficiencies and enhance productivity

Communicate with research and development and product management personnel to develop updated product strategies

Work with purchasing manager to develop and improve supplier relationships

Adhere to all environmental, health and safety requirements and procedures

Responsible for food safety and quality

Other tasks as assigned

Key Competencies:

• Excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to balance production and maintenance needs
• Demonstrated strong leadership, team building and advanced coaching skills
• Demonstrated ability to motivate people, assess and develop employee skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication and listening ability
• Strong adaptability and flexibility
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Ability to work in teams and lead decision-making processes in a team environment
• Highly motivated, results-oriented, driven
• Passion and alignment with the Company's mission, vision, values, and operating principles

Position Requirements:

• 7+ years progressive experience in a key leadership/management role at a food manufacturing facility
• Previous experience/broad understanding of safety systems and enforcement of safety rules and policies
• Previous experience/broad understanding of food quality systems and enforcement of quality/GMP rules and policies
• Demonstrated understanding of manufacturing operations, maintenance and engineering principles and applications
• Previous experience/strong understanding of budgeting/expense management with a basic understanding of financial and accounting practices
• Previous experience/best practices implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools such as Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, etc. To drive improvement
• Bachelor's Degree in Business/Engineering/Finance/Management/Food Science/Operations or other related field preferred
• Strong computer skills include preparing spreadsheets and using Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and/or Access) to analyze data and trends. Ideally, you have recently been exposed to a modern enterprise system such as SAP, JD Edwards, etc.
• Regular and reliable attendance

You must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future without sponsorship

Remote Work :

No