Plant Manager
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Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve animal lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Plant Manager will provide strategic operational oversight for all production and operating process for a single plant or multiple plants with moderate complexity. In this role, you will oversee safety, quality, operational effectiveness and financial performance.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensures employee, food and feed safety and environmental compliance program standards and goals are implemented.
- Accountable for all internal and external operating and regulatory procedures on employee, food and feed safety including strategic and tactical execution in alignment with corporate environment, health and safety and food safety, quality and regulatory functions as well as government regulations.
- Establish and deploy operational priorities for a single plant or multiple plants with moderate complexity.
- Leads strategic and tactical operations and quality management deliverables to ensure customer, product and quality standard requirements are met within specifications.
- Leads, directs and controls capital and operating budgets for a single plant or multiple plants with moderate complexity to achieve medium term outlook financial performance objectives set by the business.
- Ensure and hold direct reports accountable for meeting and controlling operating expenses and established targets.
- Oversee the overall operational management and implement operational efficiency improvements which may include standardization of plant information manufacturing systems, quality control, safety, production reliability excellence and maintenance and operators best practices.
- Lead and develop a team, coach and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Diploma/Certificate or bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of four years of related work experience (in manufacturing)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- People supervision and management experience
- Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Lean six sigma
- Two years of supervisory experience
- SAP or integrated systems of manufacturing experience
- Maintenance or technical experience
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