Job Title: Plant Director

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Salary: $180-210K plus bonus 

Job Summary of the Plant Director:  The Plant Manager oversees all daily operations of the plant from production and manufacturing while ensuring policies and procedures are followed. This position has the responsibility reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensure that all policies, procedures, and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed, and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability.

 Qualifications of the Plant Director:

·         10+ years related experience/or training in a Plant or Operations Management role.

·         Industry background in aseptic filling, dairy manufacturing or Tetra Pak Machinery, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

·         Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university, preferably a B.S. in Food Science, Engineering, or Management.

·         3+ years of experience in Aseptic processing is highly preferred.

·         Dairy or beverage manufacturing experience is highly preferred.

·         Tetra Pak machinery experience is highly preferred.

·    Prior multi-site oversight experience

·         Plant start-up experience or Acquisition experience a plus.

·         A demonstrated knowledge of organizational effectiveness and operations management and a track record of achieving results against a comprehensive set of KPIs.

·         Excellent problem-solving, and reasoning skills required.

·         Ability to analyze downtime and financial variance trends, identifying actions to deliver expected performance.

·         Working knowledge of budgets, forecasting, and metrics.

·         Excellent interpersonal skills needed, including coaching, team building and training skills.

·         Ability to effectively present information to all levels of the company; plant floor to executive leadership.

·         Excellent time management, and strong attention to detail, verbal, and written communication skills, listening, decision-making, and organization skills required.

·         Excellent computer skills required, including Microsoft Word and Excel skills. 

 Responsibilities of the Plant Director:

• Provide overall leadership, direction, and coordination for plant operations; including multi-site.
• Ensure all plant personnel are operating in compliance with plant and corporate procedures as well as compliance with customer and regulatory regulations.
• Provide coaching and development of plant staff to ensure effective leadership, collaboration, and balance in achieving KPIs focused on safety, quality, customer service, and productivity.  
• Assume personal responsibility for a safe and healthy workplace for all employees.
• Adhere to safe work practices and all safety policies and procedures.
• Adhere to Quality work practices, follow GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. 
• Responsible for Food Safety and Food Quality of products; identify and address conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
• Plan and supervise the design and progress of capital projects.
• Develop and implement financial and non-financial objectives including the annual budget that serves as the plant's operating plan.
• Identify and implement strategies to improve performance, meeting, and exceeding plant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Monitor and set standards for operations and help identify and correct bottlenecks.
• Increase production asset capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs.