Assistant General Manager

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The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar. The companies produce a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group® companies operate five sugar refineries, located in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico. In Europe, ASR Group® companies operate sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy.

The companies also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills in Mexico and Belize. The ASR Group® portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworths®. ASR Group® companies also produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware and food service product made from plant fibers, including sugarcane.

The role is accountable for site operations facility with 250-500+ union employees who refine, package and distribute a high quality food product. Reporting to the site VP/GM role, the Assistant General Manager must ensure operations meet safety, food safety, quality, cost, volume and service criteria. Executes strategy to achieve short and long-term operating and profit goals. Directs administration of policies for site within context of company wide policies.

Implements and drives execution of continuous improvement principles. Helps to formulate short and long-term operating procedures in areas such as quality improvement, cost reduction and manufacturing/processing efficiency. Develops and implements plans to achieve appropriate production volumes and profit projections. Ensures that product quality and safety standards are met within budgetary limits. Develops future talent and leadership. Provides reports to VP/GM to review progress against goals.

• Ensures safety and regulatory compliance.
• Leads manufacturing facility focused on continuous improvement and delivering world class sustainable performance.
• Provides guidance to site leadership team for continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provides adequate support, training and development of plant staff.
• Directly supervises, motivates and evaluates site leadership responsible for refining and packaging activities, materials, and warehousing.
• Creates reports for manufacturing cost controls, cost estimates, capacity plan, manpower and facility requirements.
• Monitors manufacturing and financial performance and implements corrective action planning when needed to meet company objectives.
• Implements Food Safety Quality Control functions to meet the Company’s Quality System requirements.
• Assures continuously updated line standards, the identification of bottlenecks and the proposals to eliminate.
• Helps develop, review, modify and implement operating systems in sanitation, safety, quality, preventative maintenance, general manufacturing practices and best management practices.
• Develops and builds capability of plant personnel, including support of performance and talent management activities
• Ensures that entire staff has the safety, customer, and quality as the overall focus.
• Develops plans for implementing continuous improvement manufacturing principles.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

• Assistant General Manager could have responsibility for 250-500+ direct and indirect reports.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Related Discipline.
• Masters or MBA highly preferred.

WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Professional Experience
  – 10-20+ years’ total professional experience with progressively responsible and growth.
• Production Management Experience
  – 5+ years’ experience in production management having had responsibility for…