Plant Manager - West
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve 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. 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.
- 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 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 of a single plant 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
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of four years of related work experience
- Experience with email, spreadsheet, word processing and presentation applications
Preferred Qualifications
- Two years of supervisory experience
- Lean six sigma
- Project management experience
- Safety and quality management experience
- Project controls and tracking experience
- SAP experience
- Power BI experience
Position Information
- Relocation assistance will be provided for this position.
- Benefit package includes: Paid time off; paid holidays; medical, vision and dental coverage; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability insurance; retirement savings; employee and family assistance program (EAP). Learn more at: www.cargill.com/myhealth
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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