Plant Manager - KIND High Point

What you'll do

The Plant Manager role has primary responsibility for providing associates a safe, rewarding, and engaging environment with the opportunity for growth; manufacturing superior branded products; and serving our Customers through an efficient pipeline, offering excellence in customized solutions, logistics, and customer service.

How you'll do it

Associate Environment
Create a winning environment and culture through open communications, great leadership and progressive associate development. Ensure that the Mars Five Principles and KIND Ingredients for Success are considered and incorporated in everything that we do. Provide leadership and guidance to ensure that we place the appropriate emphasis on safety, quality, process improvement, organization and training to meet our objectives.

Strategy Development and Implementation
Develop supply strategies which deliver the growth and profit objectives of the business in total. Ensure that the manufacturing site has a development plan / site strategy which is consistent with and supports the business objectives. Provide facilities enhancement requirements as an input to the enterprise capital process to drive improvements.

Business Performance
For the segment and the High Point manufacturing site, deliver or exceed agreed business performance metrics in the areas of safety, quality, costs, culture, customer service, and business strategy deployment. Champion the ideal of "World Class" pipeline management and ensure that all performance metrics, activities and resources are aligned to achieve this ideal.

You have...

 

• BS/BA degree, preferably with engineering, industrial engineer and or food science qualifications. Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) is preferred.
• Advanced training (obtained either outside or inside) in Food Safety, Associate Safety, Supply Chain Practices.
• Prior experience as a plant manager or larger site Value Stream Manager is required and prior Food/CPG experience is preferred.
• 4+ years' experience in a lead manufacturing management role with demonstrated ability and desire to work with people, both individual as well as in teams.
• Experience in the execution of multiple operating functions, preferably Operations Management, Continuous Improvement, Technical (Engineering/Maintenance), Industrial Engineering, and/or Quality.
• Progressive experience in leading advanced Continuous Improvement methodologies through TPM, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
• Must have working knowledge of operations practices, food and drug laws, food safety, associate safety and OSHA requirements, factory P&L, as well supply chain optimization practices.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range.  Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ.