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Plant Manager
POSITION TITLE
Plant Manager
LOCATION
Lexington, KY
Your Opportunity
Plant Manager
LOCATION
Lexington, KY
Why Smucker is the Place for You
You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment. One that allows you to deliver your best work and become your best professional self. That is exactly what you will find at Smucker. Inspired by our unique culture, we are determined to support every employee holistically by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs through:
- Our Total Reward benefits program – includes competitive health and financial benefits that reflect your needs at different life stages, effective day 1 and a continued commitment to empower flexible work schedule when possible.
- Continuous opportunities to learn, grow and develop – beyond functional job-based education, we promote well-rounded development and encourage a spirit of continuous learning as part of our commitment to help you realize your professional goals.
- Our continued progress on the journey to become the inclusive and diverse organization we expect to be supporting equity across our communities. We firmly believe that an inclusive environment and diverse organization strengthens our Company and enables every employee to reach their full potential.
Your Opportunity
At Smucker, we view our manufacturing operations as the heart of our efforts to deliver food people and pets love. It is foundational to our commitment to provide safe, high-quality products our consumers count on for themselves and their families. With this, we believe passionately in promoting manufacturing as a career. That means ensuring continued growth and development opportunities to help you expand your skills while providing an enjoyable and supportive environment.
In this role you will:
- Responsible for plant performance in accordance with Business objectives for absorption, manufacturing variances, safety, quality, sustainability, cost center budgets, and capital project management
- Responsible for implementation and advancement of Continuous Improvement Programs
- Responsible for development and advancement of JMS culture across the organization
- Responsible for managing the customer-supplier relationships with corporate services, marketing, research and development, engineering and our external suppliers and vendors
- Responsible for staffing and professional development of plant leaders
- Responsible for developing the plant vision, master plan, capital budget, expense budget, and other strategic planning
- Manage the relationship with local city representatives to ensure compliance with all regulations and maintain positive community relations
- Own the Safety culture and set the standard for safety across the organization
- Responsible for participating and collaborating within the Peanut Butter Marketing Team to drive overall Strategic Issues.
The Right Role for You
Are you motivated by the chance to help provide quality products consumers count on every day? Are you interested in working with a collaborative team to get the job done while learning new skills? If so, you are exactly who we are looking for to join our Company. What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Food manufacturing experience required
- TPM, Lean, Six Sigma or other experience with the implementation of High Performing Work Systems required
- Successful experience leading, coaching and managing leaders required
- Previous experience leading a plant is preferred
- Knowledge of GMP, PC, OSHA, FDA regulations strongly preferred
- Must be able to effectively meet external customer requirements
- Strong quantitative and qualitative assessment skills, critical thinking skills and the ability to constructively challenge ideas and assumptions
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to facilitate and manage change
- Must have good organizational skills
- Strong attention to deal
- Must be able to prioritize work in a high demand work environment
- Skilled in leadership, collaboration, and driving process change
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong Interpersonal relationship skills
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Ability to lead, teach, and coach others
Learn More About Working at Smucker
- Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
- Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
- Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
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