Plant Manager - Tier 2

Company: Treehouse Foods
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: October 11, 2021

Job Description:

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

MD Cambridge

Job Type:

Production Operations

Job Posting Title:

Plant Manager - Tier 2

Job Description:

The Plant Manager of Protenergy Foods Inc. is responsible for leading the Plant in its mission of safely producing quality shelf stable soups, broths and sauces at a competitive cost. The Cambridge facility has seen tremendous growth since 2011 and will continue to experience rapid growth over the next several years. The facility has embarked on a path to implementing a high performing work system. To enable sustainable improvements in quality metrics including: employee and food safety, quality, paper and liquid loss, conversion cost, speed to market and customer service. The highly engaged workforce and committed leadership team of the facility are looking for a proven Plant Manager to continue driving operational excellence.

The identified candidate's performance will be managed by the following critical to quality (CTQ) metrics including: lower conversion cost year on year, successful retention of key certifications in food safety, quality and organics, reduced total recordable injury rates, improved yields, employee retention and turnover, case fill rate and on time delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and execution of the operations strategy in line with the overall Protenergy operational objectives
• Drive sustainable performance improvements in line with budget commitments
• As a member of the Plant Leadership Team, continually demonstrate the key principles and values of a high performance work team
• Continue the implementation, and drive the continuous improvement program to deliver opportunities in cost, quality, food safety and service
• Lead the monitoring, communication and analysis of key plant metrics on a daily, weekly and quarterly basis to ensure achievement of CTQ commitments
• Be an active and engaged shop floor leader who leads by example. Promoting the values of the high performance work system
• Drive employee personal development through the execution of performance management tools, training plans and employee retention activities
• Be an active leader Product Development in the execution of new product launches, customer quality initiatives and savings projects.

• A minimum of five years manufacturing experience in progressively expanding roles including a minimum of 2 years in a senior plant leadership role
• Food processing, HACCP, USDA, Aseptic Processing
• Results-driven with a strong desire to grow and learn in a fast paced environment
• Demonstrated track record of meeting or exceeding targets goals.
• Bachelor of Science, Business or other technical degree(preferred)
• Experience in leading in a high performance work system(preferred)

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