Responsibilities

• Develop the operation plan for each season, aligned with Production Planning Manager and Plant Leadership.

• Define the temporary employee workforce demand to fill the positions according with the planned demand for each season

• Ensure and support training to the team to guarantee compliance with safety, quality and compliance.

• Review and improve internal operational procedures with the team.

• Provide leadership and hands-on presence to ensure a safe and compliant workplace, delivering outstanding EH&S performance.

• Provide coaching to the direct reports, focused on team development.

• Monitoring Drying and Shelling KPI's and creating action plans for improvement.

• Develop and control the budget to variable production costs for each season.

• Control all the production goods to ensure that demand planned will be met.

• Support continuous improvement projects focused on safety and quality.

• Lead and manage department improvement projects.

• Monitor product quality for consistent compliance with the Quality Plan requirements.

• Guarantee SAP traceability in each process step.

• Analise and investigate quality deviations and create action plans.

• Work closed with maintenance to align strategy for the season.

• Develop the 5Yplan strategy to drive investments to the area aligned with the company drive.

• Set annual goals together with the reporting team and monitor these periodically. Construction of a career plan and great need for people development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Engineer, or equivalent area.

• Strong leadership and communication skills.

• Ability to lead and influence/collaborate with production planning team.

• 5 years experience in corn seed production process or manufacturing.

• Advanced English is mandatory to the role.

• Improvement tools are (Six Sigma, Black, Green or White Belt) is a differential to the job.

• Experience applying solving problems tools (Fishbone, 5Ways, RCI) are desired.

• Experience in EHS management and quality management systems and processes.

• SAP knowledge is a differential to the function.

• Microsoft Office is required (Excel and Power BI).

• Availability for eventual travel

• Driving license, category B.

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