Plant Manager

Balchem Corporation

Plant Manager coordinating daily operations at Balchem's facility in Sleepy Eye, MN. Ensure regulatory compliance and maintain safety and efficiency standards across operations.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeSleepy Eye • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Direct daily plant operations while maintaining a safe, professional, and positive work environment.
Make the most effective use of available work force and equipment, ensuring an efficient and coordinated work effort among all personnel.
Balance costs versus what is necessary to safely and reliably meet customer demand.
Lead continuous improvement in the safety and food safety culture throughout the local site and Balchem.
Maintain high standards of performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and facilitate corrective action and preventive action plans at the site.
Establish and continually improve a procedures-based culture.
Facilitate an agile, effective, and engaged work force through strong change management, communication, and training efforts.
Cultivate a high performing team with a customer-focused mindset.
Develop key individuals for succession planning and organizational development.
Maintain production at desired level while adhering to strict safety, food safety, and quality standards.
Own the plant capacity plan and continually update operating plans based on inputs from Demand Planning and the Sales and Operating Planning Process.
Ensure adherence to the production schedule to meet sales and commercial commitments to customers.
Maintain goal alignment between the plant, the manufacturing function, the business, and the corporation.
Maintain key performance indicators and metrics scorecards to monitor performance against established goals.
Continually review and ensure improvement plans are in place for all performance gaps.
Conduct periodic informal & annual formal employee evaluations.
Create & maintain a positive work environment where success is celebrated, along with communicating company policies and directives to employees.
Develop and adhere to an annual operating & capital implementation plan.
Lead and own sustainability including waste reduction and value enhancement initiatives for the site.
Effectively utilize communicate with regional, corporate, and approved outside expertise to drive learning and continuous improvement into the plant organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in a technical field of study such as engineering, chemistry, food manufacturing, microbiology/food science or a closely related field.
10+ years Production Management & Supervisory/Leadership; experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment is highly recommended.
Ability to Facilitate & Lead in a Team Environment.
Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, develop and train a strong facility team.
Demonstrated strong execution capacity.
Ability to create sustained change to more effective systems.
Production logistics & scheduling, GMP systems.
APICS, Lean, or Six Sigma training is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

production managementschedulingGMP systemscontinuous improvementcapacity planningperformance metricssustainability initiativesfood safety standardsquality standardschange management

Soft Skills

leadershipteam facilitationcoachingmentoringcommunicationorganizational developmentemployee evaluationcustomer-focused mindsetproblem-solvingtraining

Certifications

APICSLeanSix Sigma