Plant Manager

Plant Manager

We're looking for a Plant Manager to run our New Hebron, Mississippi plant, where we make pork rinds and wheat-based snacks. This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll oversee our daily production, manufacturing, receiving, and shipping, and lead our plant culture with Safety, Quality, Service, and Profitability always in mind. The right person for this job knows how to build and carry out processes that protect our people, meet food safety and regulatory standards, and keep our quality and productivity where they need to be.

Everything we do at Rudolph Foods is built on a few core values:
Caring, Integrity, Humility, Open and Honest Communication, Personal Responsibility, and Respect for Other Humans. We're looking for a leader who will bring those same values to our New Hebron team every day.

Operations and Continuous Improvement

• Plan, organize, and run day-to-day operations to meet or exceed our customers' expectations.
• Grow our production output and flexibility while keeping costs in check and quality where it needs to be.
• Be present on the floor across all shifts so you can see for yourself that our processes are running right and that problems get fixed fast.
• Use real-time data to spot problems, cut waste, and improve performance.
• Build the systems, metrics, and targets that get the most out of our people and our equipment.
• Keep our equipment and capital assets running well and properly maintained.
• Stay current on best practices in production management and bring good ideas back to the plant.

Leading Our People and Culture

• Lead our plant culture around Safety, Quality, Service, and Profitability, and hold the team accountable to it every day.
• Build real trust with your team through coaching, development, and consistent leadership.
• Get associates engaged so we make the most of our people and assets.
• Get ahead of employee issues before they become bigger problems.
• Listen to associates at every level and use what you hear to make better decisions.
• Give the team the training and leadership they need to keep building a positive culture here.
• Keep plant priorities lined up with company goals so everyone knows what we're working toward.

Financial and Resource Management

• Own the plant's budget, financial plans, and profit targets.
• Put cost-effective controls in place for operating costs, wages, and labor.

Employee Safety Responsibilities

This includes, but isn't limited to:

• Working with supervisors to make sure they enforce our safety policies and procedures.
• Follow our safety practices yourself and lead by example.
• Handling forklift training, certification, and decertification.
• Making sure all required safety training gets done every year.
• Training new employees on everything required within their first 90 days.

Food Safety Responsibilities

This includes, but isn't limited to:

• Knowing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and the basics of our HACCP program.
• Understanding our written allergen program.
• Understanding our glass and hard plastics policy.
• Knowing how the AIB and SQF audit processes work.
• Spotting food safety violations on the production floor.
• Following all food safety and security regulations and related SOPs.
• Reporting anything that needs action to the people who have the authority to fix it.
• Making sure an equally trained manager from Ops, QA or SQF covers this role when you're out.

Education and Experience

• Proven experience as a plant manager, with a track record of managing people.
• Solid knowledge of business and management basics, including budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation, and human resources.
• Familiarity with industry-standard equipment and proven best practices.
• Knowledge of safety, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory, and stewardship processes (SQF, HACCP, AIB, USDA, OSHA).
• Comfortable with Windows-based computer systems.
• Ability to create accountability and lead by example.
• Strong team building, decision making, and people management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Management or a related field, plus 6 to 10 years of experience.