Plant Director

Lead the end-to-end performance of the manufacturing plant and distribution operations. Build an engaged accountable organization that safely produces compliant high-quality products at the required service cost and volume. Balance daily execution with long-term capability building through reliability capital planning continuous improvement data-driven management and cross-functional partnership.

• Service: Direct production warehousing and distribution execution across all shifts. Translate demand into achievable plans and use daily management routines to deliver schedule attainment case fill order fill and customer commitments.
• Cost: Own the site operating plan forecasts and controllable spending. Improve conversion cost labor productivity material usage utilities destroyed product overhead inventory and working capital while protecting safety quality service and long-term capability.
• Quality/ Food Safety: Ensure food safety product quality sanitation allergen traceability recall and preventive-control programs meet company customer FDA and applicable regulatory requirements. Maintain audit readiness and promptly escalate material risk.
• EHS: Lead the site safety health and environmental management system. Model visible safety leadership; ensure employee participation hazard identification and control training emergency preparedness contractor safety incident investigation and timely corrective action.
• Asset Management/ Maintenance Reliability: Establish the asset-care and reliability strategy including preventive and predictive maintenance spare-parts discipline utilities facilities and grounds. Improve OEE and downtime performance and maintain safe reliable plant infrastructure.
• Capital Management & Execution: Develop and execute the site capital roadmap. Build sound business cases; manage scope budget schedule change control safe installation commissioning and benefits realization for capital and engineering projects.
• People Leadership: Select coach develop and retain an effective leadership team and frontline workforce. Set clear goals strengthen technical capability conduct talent and succession reviews administer policies consistently and promote an inclusive high-accountability culture.
• Operational Excellence: Build a fact-based continuous-improvement system using Lean problem solving standard work visual management and verified savings. Sponsor loss elimination automation digital tools and data-quality improvements and ensure gains are sustained.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Supply Chain Procurement Quality R&D Engineering Sales Finance and HR to balance capacity inventory service and cost. Govern plant trials product transfers and launches for safe capable and profitable scale-up.
• Other: Maintain business continuity and crisis-response readiness. Manage environmental obligations and relationships with regulators customers suppliers contractors carriers emergency responders and community stakeholders; communicate site performance and risks transparently.

• Bachelors degree is required
• 10 years of progressive manufacturing experience including significant leadership of multi-function operations is required
• Demonstrated ownership of plant safety food safety and quality customer service budgets cost improvement workforce planning maintenance/reliability capital projects and KPI management is required
• Travel up to 5%
• MBA or relevant graduate degree is preferred
• Food or beverage manufacturing and high-volume or automated operations strongly preferred
• Lean or Six Sigma; HACCP; PCQI when assigned responsibility requires it; and SQF BRCGS or other GFSI-scheme experience is helpful

• Enterprise-minded manufacturing leader with strong business judgment and the ability to convert strategy into disciplined plant execution
• Working knowledge of food-safety systems preventive controls GMPs sanitation allergen management quality systems EHS maintenance and reliability capital delivery production planning warehousing and distribution
• Skilled in financial analysis root-cause problem solving lean management organizational development labor and employee relations crisis leadership and change management
• Demonstrated ability to use ERP/MES systems production and quality data visual management and performance analytics to make timely decisions
• Communicates clearly with frontline employees executives customers regulators and external partners