Description: The Judge Group is seeking a degreed Plant Operations Manager for a large food manufacturing company in Memphis, TN! The qualified candidate will control and supervise all coordination, planning and direction of production activities, ensuring product quality and ensuring maximum operating efficiency. The candidate will ensure all jobs are performed efficiently, accurately, and safely to improve and maintain the performance of the entire plant. The qualified individual will develop superintendents to improve and maintain plant performance.
Responsibilities:
Communicate and maintain new industry trends including customer needs, developments in equipment, and ingredients
Participate and support the plant safety process
Use familiarity of plant operations and process to maintain and develop department organization
Create areas of responsibility and group production functions to meet production objectives and needs
Advance recommendations in all fields related to effective department and plant operations
Must be highly organized and systematic in approach
Ensure all things happen on schedule
Prepare production portion of operating budgets
Implement and control approved budgets
Communicate effectively with all plant workers to ensure timely and efficient policy implementation
Maintain close contact with sales and marketing staying up to date of all marketing and sales activities that may affect production distribution
Implement and improve methods for assisting employees to achieve plant production goals
Develop department associates and managers to the fullest extent of their ability, while maintaining positive engagement
Provide feedback to leads, associates and department managers on performance against department and plant goals and objectives
Follow policies, practices and programs to produce safe quality foods that meet company and regulatory requirements
Support the maintenance, development, implementation and ongoing improvement of the SQF 2000 Systems
Supervise direct reports in the performance of their duties
Complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports
Requirements:
BS degree in food manufacturing operations
5+ years of experience in logistics, warehouse
Proven leadership
Functional knowledge of Microsoft products including: PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and Excel
Knowledge of Total Process Control or lean manufacturing
Contact: jevans@judge.com
This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com
