Plant Director

About the Company:

Our client operates within the food manufacturing industry with heavy focus on dairy. They are positioned for positive growth over the next several years and is looking to bring on board leaders with prior experience in bringing new thoughts and ideas to the food manufacturing industry. Looking for leaders with end-to-end experience in redesigning the way the work is done and focused on fostering a team culture.

About the Role:

The Plant Director will oversee the day-to-day and strategic planning for all aspects of the plant operations including safety, quality, people, sanitation, production, engineering/maintenance, and warehousing.

**This leadership position is located in Lubbock, Texas and is required to be onsite**

Qualifications:

The successful candidate must have 10-15 years of progressively responsible management experience in a manufacturing environment and the following qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years as a Plant Manager with dairy experience is an absolute must have
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment is required
• Strong lean and Continuous improvement success record.
• Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, result oriented, strong organizational and planning abilities, and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Have a demonstrated track record leading change and team/individual development in a turnaround environment.

Educational Requirement:

BS Degree in Engineering or Business Administration

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing direct leadership, coaching and development for all aspects of manufacturing including safety, quality, production, maintenance, warehouse with indirect leadership for finance and human resources.
• Owns creating a culture where human safety, food safety and quality are absolute to ensure a safe working environment along with monitoring compliance standards and directly addressing any identified gaps.
• Ultimately owns the integrity of performance management of all Team Members including performance reviews, goal setting, production targets, accountability, career development and succession planning.
• Responsible for developing plant master plan aligning to overall SC/Business priorities and tracking of key KPI’s to ensure delivery of actions that are directly tied to expected results to achieve committed annual operating plan.
• Establish a culture of accountability and teamwork across the plant organization by developing and communicating individual and team metrics, progress against gaps and move forward action plan to win.
• Accountable for development of annual site budget, development and driver of productivity plan and ongoing management of the plant P&L to deliver on budgetary commitments.
• Provide hands on CI leadership, including evaluating all existing systems, processes, and metrics with a view to recommending and then implementing improvements which will minimize production costs and waste while maximizing production output. Ultimately drives a culture of continuous improvement.
• Drives daily executional excellence through daily direction setting establishing clear and accountable actions that drive production schedules to meet inventory levels, cost and quality goals.
• Supports direct reports to troubleshoot and resolve problems as required; using problem-solving skills quickly ascertains a situation and decisive in solving it; escalate issues as needed to engineering and other department.
• Works effectively across functional silos to drive end to end value.
• Operates with transparency and earns trust at all levels through communication and actions.