• Leads the Operation of the Plant to Maintain Personnel and Process Safety:
  • Oversees both salaried and hourly positions within the org structure
  • Maintains an environment in which personal safety is the top priority, partnering with EH&S Manager to drive compliance with all safety initiatives and programs
  • Ensures the team works safely and the department maintains compliance with all health and safety regulations
  • Ensures the operation of the site is carried out in accordance with all regulatory permits, laws, regulations, and best practices
  • Guarantee all supplies, materials and services needed are provided for all production and operational needs, without overstocking
  • Aligns department goals with plant goals and communicates the direction and priorities to the department, leveraging a structured management system
  • Demonstrates ADM Core Values in decision-making and actions
  • Collaborates with work groups across the organization to develop a strategic vision for the department, putting it into action through the department's deployment plan
  • Supports the Quality and Food Safety Management Systems, possibly also fulfilling an additional formal role as a member of the site's Food Safety Team
  • Direct work, conduct performance appraisals, reward and/or discipline employees, address complaints and resolve problems. Ensure that all shift members are trained properly and maintain daily
  • Ensures the facility maintains profitability and utilizes financial resources responsibly, within the guidelines and expectations defined
  • Collaborates with Sales team to maintain clear expectations in regard to customer service, product availability, and market growth
  • Acts as a key stakeholder to the plant leadership team
• Models the way of the Performance Excellence Journey:
  • Leads and Coaches the team to leverage continuous improvement tools to achieve department and plant KPI's
  • Conducts Daily Review and Response (DRR) and works closely with the Plant manager and steering team to adjust and adapt, escalating situations when appropriate
  • Ensures that deviations from KPIs and incidents are driven to Root Cause elimination by team
  • Demonstrate commitment to improving safety, processes and efficiency of the plant by delivering the department deployment plan in both 'what' (metrics) and 'how' (means).
  • Work in collaboration with Centers of Excellence (CoE) to improve technology and reliability of the operations.
• Is an Effective Communicator:
  • Demonstrate strong communication skills in both face to face and written communication.
  • Interprets and ensures consistent application of organizational policies and procedures
  • Performs Colleague Performance Reviews and meets with colleagues on a regular basis to review goals and individual development plans
  • Collaborates with HR to manage performance of department colleagues
  • Takes on additional roles and responsibilities to continually develop self-and/or other teams

• Minimum of 5+ years production and supervisory experience
• Demonstrated extremely strong commitment and leadership in plant health and safety program as well as quality and food safety programs
• Demonstrated ability to manage a food processing facility, employing GMP and HACCP methodologies
• Excellent communication skills - both oral and written
• Strong leadership, management, and interpersonal skills
• Interpersonal skills employed include handling conflict, motivating, instructing, and training personnel in a fair, honest, and direct way
• Strong mechanical aptitude, instrumentation, controls, calculations, and utility systems
• Ability to achieve and track excellence using performance-driven metrics
• General computer skills including experience with MS Office, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to effectively manage time for optimal results
• Able to utilize independent judgment to solve problems
• Possess excellent organizational skills to effectively handle multiple ongoing tasks, meet deadlines, and strive for continuous improvement and high expectations of direct reports
• Applicant must be able to work in all types of climates, both inside and out, including extreme hot and cold temperatures, noisy environments, heights, dusty environments, all of which require use of Personal Protective Equipment
• Ability to climb stairs, access ladders, catwalks and elevated working platforms across all hours of shift working time
• Job also requires some lifting, sitting and standing for long periods of time, work from heights, bending, kneeling and performing tasks requiring respirator qualification
• Applicants must be willing to work weekends and holidays when necessary

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