Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop key manufacturing plans and programs to achieve budgeted unit cost and output objectives.
- Coordinate activities of all manufacturing functional areas to ensure alignment with plant goals.
- Sustain production capacity in line with sales volume requirements and develop contingency plans as needed.
- Maintain and improve the quality of plant assets both current and fixed.
- Develop and implement performance standards for all supervisors including maintaining current job descriptions and improvement plans.
- Establish appropriate employee work schedules based on customer orders and plant performance requirements.
- Collaborate with Purchasing to establish and monitor quality specifications for incoming raw materials.
- Work with Quality/R&D to develop new products/processes and improve current ones including overseeing experimental and test runs.
- Manage inventory of offspec materials including scheduling and reworking products as needed.
- Maintain the formulation data system including entering all new product formulations.
Education Requirements:
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- 57 years of previous management experience in a foodgrade operation.
- Background in dairy evaporators and/or drying technologies.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
- Strong knowledge of plant operation procedures and business system software applications.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Must be legally able to work without sponsorship.
Remote Work :
No