Plant General Manager
Cargill
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: North Kingstown • Rhode Island • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Responsible for overall leadership, direction, and management of North Kingstown, RI case ready plant operations
- Fully accountable for meeting plant safety, food safety, quality, environmental, costs, and operating plan objectives
- Customer relationship leadership and ensuring compliance with business strategies, processes, and programs
- Ensures North Kingstown provides products that meet customer needs
- Represents the company and its interests in the community
- Create an environment where employees go home in the same (or better) condition than they arrived
- Actively work to prevent/eliminate hazards that cause injury or illness
- Ensure effective and efficient operations and maintain business quality standards
- Collaborate with other General Managers to ensure best practice sharing
- Develop leaders for Cargill and provide tools and structure for meeting their P&L objectives
- Active champion of community outreach efforts
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of six years of related work experience
- Minimum five years food/meat processing manufacturing experience with various roles and progressive responsibility in further processing operations
- Minimum five years of direct management/leadership experience (influencing, coaching, managing through others, developing diverse work teams)
- Experience in case ready meat like operations
- Experience in training in Continuous Improvement initiatives (Green Belt, Black Belt, etc.)
- Experience in managing 500+ stakeholders
- Understanding of internal (plants/operations) and external (customers) relationships and how to determine decision-making (employee safety, engagement, profitability)
- Experience and proven track record in continuous improvement and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Experience in building relationships with customers
- Team builder and team player (player/coach principle)
- Must be able to communicate effectively written, verbal, and in presentation with all levels of the business
- Experienced in creating and managing capital deployment strategy
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
food processingmeat processingcontinuous improvementP&L managementcapital deployment strategysafety managementquality managementenvironmental managementstakeholder managementtraining
Soft skills
leadershipcustomer relationship managementteam buildingcoachingcommunicationcollaborationinfluencingproblem-solvingemployee engagementcommunity outreach
Certifications
Green BeltBlack Belt