Complex Manager
West Liberty Foods
- Tremonton, UT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Planning, organizing, directing and running optimum day-to-day operations on a Further Processing and Ready To Eat facility to exceed our customers’ expectations.
- Increasing production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
- Responsibility for production output, product quality and on-time shipping.
- Drive continuous improvement and optimization of all processes.
- Oversee all daily operations of the plant from production and manufacturing to ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
- Develop processes that will maximize stewardship, safety, quality and productivity.
- Share a trusting relationship with the leadership team to recruit, manage and develop plant staff with Human Resources to ensure staffing fulfillment rate is at minimum 95%.
- Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime through GAP analysis using a 5 why approach to ensure waste is eliminated.
- Commit to plant safety procedures, monitor, audit, lead and drive preventive measures to eliminate risk.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
- Address employees’ issues or grievances to ensure a ONE TEAM environment.
- Manage overall plant maintenance budget including parts room inventory, obsolete, not moving inventory, asset transfers, rebuilds.
- Build, manage and drive a yearly budget based on current spending with a cost reduction mentality.
- Manage a PSM program.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Plant/Operational experience at a Director or Manager level at a minimum of 7 years.
- Proven food manufacturing managerial experience with ready to eat and fabrication experience is necessary.
- Experience leading a large cross functional team (up to 5 direct reports).
- Strong financial business acumen to act upon yield, productivity, labor standards and other product efficiency reports and managing budgets.
- Proven and can demonstrate continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong OSHA knowledge.
- Proven knowledge of safety, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory and stewardship processes.
- Computer literacy.
- Ability to create accountability and to lead by example through 3P: People - Process - Profit
- Strong team building, agile and decision-making and people management skills.
- Drive continual improvement in quality, productivity, efficiency and cost.
- Partner with all departments of the organization.
- Bachelor’s Degree in related fields or equivalent is preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Ability to lead a team of resourceful and skilled team members.
- Must be able to work in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to adjust quickly to changing demands.
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop others.
- Coaching and performance management experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills including root cause analysis.
- Candidates must successfully pass the post-offer/pre-employment drug test and background screen.