Glanbia

Site Director

Glanbia

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Sharonville • Ohio • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

ERP

About the role

  • Provide strategic direction and leadership to engage entire plant operations in continuously improving Engagement, Safety, Quality, Productivity, Operational Excellence and Costs
  • Develop a leadership team that ensures all plant employees can improve and sustain a zero loss work culture that drives out injuries and ensures products are safe and meet quality specifications
  • Responsible for all aspects of site operations ensuring budget, output, and continuous improvement by engaging all employees
  • Directs, administers, and coordinates the activities of the organization in support of policies, goals, and objectives established by the company
  • Lead safe operations at the facility developing a strong safety culture and fully supporting the EH&S team
  • Ensure the plant staff are aware of their responsibility to report safety problems to plant or corporate personnel, including EHS, with authority to initiate action, including evaluation of the potentially impacted product or process
  • Review, implement, and support training programs and Plant Safety Team
  • Strategic development of operations and manufacturing plans in a 24 Hour 7 Day a week facility
  • Ability to take responsibility in all aspects of plant operations across all shifts and in all owned departments
  • Develops and implements plans to assure product quality meets established standards, costs are within budget, production and shipping schedules meet customer requirements, inventories of raw materials and finished goods are accurately tracked and maintained at effective levels, safety standards are met, and all regulatory compliance is achieved
  • Provide operational leadership to build a strong site team to deliver sustainable results through clear talent management, succession planning, including training and development of team
  • Determine the resources, skill and structure needed for the production organization to achieve business objectives and goals
  • Ensure food safety processes are followed and continue to develop those responsible for food safety have defined or designated alternates and/or provisions to cover key food safety activities in the event of absences
  • Support food and product quality processes and ensure SOP’s are followed and enforced along with addressing customer concerns and resolving customer complaints in a timely manner
  • Establishes clear goals and accountability to direct reports and provides performance feedback on a regular basis
  • Defines and directs compliance with the plant’s policies and procedures
  • Contributes to the development of company-wide strategic plans
  • Leads and supports continuous improvement/lean efforts at facility including capital projects and efficiency upgrades
  • Develop cost effective production plans and identify continuous improvement projects with defined goals
  • Understands and plans around ingredient market dynamics – seasonality, commodity pricing, customer trends
  • Participate in customer facing teams and visits and creates plant capabilities valued by our customers
  • Ensure inventory controls are in place and processes are followed
  • Ensure sustainable environmental stewardship in wastewater, air permitting, and solid waste reduction
  • Monitors P&L and budget requirements meeting expected cost structures
  • Complete monthly reports to leadership team
  • Develops, tracks, and implements KPI dashboards to describe plant performance across all shifts and in each operational location to meet deliverables for safety, quality, service delivery, and efficiency/throughput
  • Works closely with cross functional teams on companywide projects in operations and other projects aligned with company goals
  • Daily cross functional communications with, QC, production, distribution and logistics, engineering, maintenance, customer service and sales/marketing and other functional areas as required
  • Directly works with internal and external customers as needed to support sales and marketing on product development and customer specific requests
  • Other duties as required

Requirements

  • Four-year degree or equivalent with a background in engineering or operations management preferred
  • 10+ years Production managerial experience in a manufacturing environment with continuously increasing levels of responsibility
  • Deep understanding of manufacturing technology in liquids flavors production, dry powder blending, and spray drying
  • Experience with process extractions in food related industries a plus
  • ERP/MRP experience
  • Experience in SAP and/or SAGE programs a plus
  • Equipment & automation proficiency – ability to interact with PLC systems (via functional descriptions), automated batching, and production processes
  • Experience managing a 24/5 or 24/7 production facility
  • Proven track record of developing staff and leadership
  • Maintenance strategy leadership (preventive, predictive, reliability-centered maintenance)
Benefits
  • competitive salary
  • staff discounts
  • generous family leave policy
  • health & dental plan
  • continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
manufacturing technologyliquids flavors productiondry powder blendingspray dryingprocess extractionsERPMRPSAPSAGEPLC systems
Soft Skills
strategic directionleadershipcontinuous improvementtalent managementsuccession planningperformance feedbackcross functional communicationcustomer relationsteam developmentproblem solving