Blakely

GA - Georgia

Operations: Manufacturing, Production, Maintenance, Utilities

Plant Manager – Blakely, GA

ADM/Golden Peanut – Specialty Peanut Flour Facility
This is an exempt level position.

Position Summary:
This key role is responsible for leading all aspects of the operations for the Blakley Georgia Peanut processing facility. You will have a leading role in driving operational excellence and developing a high performance team. You set and maintain ADM/Golden Peanut’s high standards for safety and quality for all departments while maintaining production and efficiency excellence. A good communicator who can nurture extraordinary interdepartmental, commercial and customer relationships will be most successful. He/she will have the ability to foster teams and leaders in identifying and sustainably solving problems. The Plant Manager reports directly to the Operations Director and leads a site with approximately 60 operations colleagues.

Job Responsibilities:
Production:

• Lead all aspects of a Peanut processing facility including oil and flour plants.
• Develop a high performance team by engaging, coaching and developing team members, and by driving accountability and ownership at all levels.
• Responsible for environmental, health, safety, quality, efficiency and production of the plant and warehouse operations.
• Responsible for meeting production requirements safely, reliably, and efficiently.
• Lead and support performance excellence initiatives.
• Provide technical knowledge for processes and equipment to obtain performance.
• Maintain cost controls and oversee budgets in each department.
• Manage production personnel and equipment in a safe and efficient manner to obtain maximum capacity and performance with optimum yields and quality product.
• Develop and implement a five year capital plan in alignment with the business strategy.

Health, Safety & Environmental:

• Maintain the license to operate by developing a strong site safety culture and by ensuring adherence to safety laws, regulations, rules and sound practices.
• Act as a role model for safety.
• Work with the Safety and Environmental Center of Excellence and the regional and local management on the continued development and implementation of environmental, health, and safety programs, policies and procedures.
• Coordinate and contribute in audits, prioritizing and tracking completion of findings.
• Ensure that unsafe behavior and conditions are corrected.
• Maintain the necessary environmental, health, and safety records and documentation.

Sanitation/Food Safety:

• Ensure the facility maintains world-class sanitation standards.
• Continually improve and communicate food safety/sanitation/quality programs to plant supervisors and hourly employees.
• Prepare the facility for, and participate in, regulatory/third party/customer/company audits.

Required Skills:

• Four-year degree in a technical field, engineering degree preferred, and a minimum of four years of supervisory experience with increasing manufacturing leadership responsibility, or a minimum of ten years of hands-on, increasing production leadership experience.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate for achievement and communicate effectively.
• Demonstrated coaching and leadership skills

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