Assistant Plant Operations Manager

Description

Key Result Areas:

Performance Standards:

Core Values

Continuously exhibit and set the example for others in display of Company values: Customer Centric, Ambitious, Proactive, Innovative, Collaborative and Accountable.

Regulatory Requirements/ Quality Assurance

• Ensure compliance with all food regulatory requirements.
• Ensure food safety and GMP’s are adhered to at site.
• Maintain superior scores on all third-party audits (AIB, SQF, ASI or similar).
• Ensure all shipped product meets product specifications.
• Ensure due diligence toward all customer complaints.
• Notify Corporate QA about potential withdrawals/recalls of products.
• Ensure compliance with all AB Mauri Yeast Quality Management System (YQMS) standards.

Customer Requirements

• Pass all customer quality audits.
• Pass certification requirements.
• Develop and maintain a productive relationship with the customer service and sales teams.

Supply Chain

• Ensure that receiving, shipping, and warehousing functions operate at a high standard and efficiently.
• Assist in demand planning and forecasting with corporate planning and logistics.
• Ensure a good communication channel exists from the plant to customer service team.
• Oversee the activities for planning, purchasing, packaging rooms and shipping/receiving departments.
• Manage yearly objectives and evaluations of supervisors, plant buyer and planning engineer.
• Look after efficiently organizing the warehouse, in cooperation with the receiving, production and shipping departments.
• Implement and coordinate systems for warehousing, tracking merchandise, raw materials, packaging, etc.
• Ensure efficient organization of inventory management and stock movement (incoming and outgoing)

Operations Control

• Ensure plant packaging operations meet defined standards (Production, Engineering, QA/QC, YQMS, HR, Accounting, Purchasing, Maintenance, and Effluent).
• Work with other sites and ABM global and regional yeast technologists to identify, share, and implement best practices.
• Relentlessly execute against defined process standards while fostering a continuous improvement culture.
• Lead the CI program for the plant.

Environmental Health & Safety

• Develop and maintain comprehensive standard health and safety reporting package.
• Cultivate a proactive health and safety culture at the site at all levels.
• Develop and maintain environmental and safety teams at the site.
• Ensure emergency response plans are current at the site.
• Ensure regulatory compliance is maintained at the site.
• Maintain environmental risk assessment.

Human Resource Management

• Ensure management functions are completed including recruiting, performance evaluations, conducting staff meetings and taking corrective action as necessary.
• Participate in the hiring, evaluation, and training follow-up of employees.
• Manage weekly work and vacation schedules.
• Enforce and comply with HR policies and procedures. Including disciplinary policies.
• Comply with applicable employment laws.
• Comply with Union Contract policy and procedures.
• Comply with relevant employment laws.

Communication

• Maintain site wide communication plan to include: Meetings – site, leadership, department Scorecards – ensure completion and posting Status reports – period, weekly and event driven.

Leadership

• Establish site priorities to deliver high corporate standards of presentation and leadership across operations.
• Demonstrate innovation in practice to deliver high value.
• Operate to “best practices” in group. Encourage teamwork.
• Co-champion the site’s efforts to improve overall organizational capability and effectiveness as well as site/department KPI’s.

Other

• Serve as site leader when Plant Operations Manager is not present or available.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Technical Degree - Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Microbiology, or relevant experience (an advanced technical or business degree preferred).
• Minimum ten years manufacturing experience, preferably in a managerial role in the food, fermentation, bio-chemical or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in leading and directing large groups of employees.
• Excellent mechanical aptitude and strong oral / written communication skills.
• Good coaching skills and demonstrated success in developing / mentoring people.
• Demonstrated success in improving quality, reducing costs, EHS performance.
• Experience with Resource Scheduling.
• Must have strong prioritization and analytical skills.
• Understanding of cost accounting principles, overall cost drivers, and business principles.
• Strategic planning skills and ability to set strategic objectives for the facility as well as drill down to individual objectives.
• Excellent leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Quality Management Systems (SQF, ISO, etc.).
• Understanding of food hygiene procedures and food safety requirements.
• Experience in process control and project engineering.
• Excellent PC skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Continuous process and/or food manufacturing experience.