Plant Director

A great place to work.

The Plant Director is the senior leader for King Arthur Baking’s Merlin manufacturing facility and is accountable for the site’s overall performance, including safety, food safety, quality, service, cost, people, culture, asset reliability, sustainability, and continuous improvement.

This leader develops the plant leadership team, builds organizational capability, and establishes the operating discipline needed to deliver the annual business plan and advance King Arthur’s long-range strategy. Working in close partnership with enterprise functions, the Director balances business requirements with King Arthur’s mission, values, employee-ownership culture, and commitments to People, Planet, and Profit.

Yes, we have the standard "stuff" - medical, dental, vision, company paid short- and long-term disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, paid time off to rest, paid holidays to have fun, a 401(k) with a company match.
But here's what makes us different: 40 paid volunteer hours a year, profit sharing*, participation in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
* and knowing that those working with you are dedicated and engaged co-employee owners that believe in you and your extraordinary abilities to move us all forward.

White River Junction, VT; onsite daily.

$153,000 to $180,000 annual salary; commensurate with experience.

People, Culture, and Leadership

• Provide visible, values-based leadership across the facility, creating clarity, accountability, trust, inclusion, and shared ownership for plant performance.
• Lead and develop the plant leadership team and strengthen leadership capability, succession, workforce planning, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness across all shifts.
• Foster effective two-way communication and an environment in which employee-owners understand priorities, contribute ideas, raise concerns, and connect their work to company results.

• Hold overall site accountability for employee safety, food safety, product quality, environmental performance, and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure effective systems, controls, training, audits, and corrective actions are in place to meet company standards and applicable requirements.
• Lead the site’s response to significant safety, quality, regulatory, or business continuity events and ensure risks and root causes are addressed.

• Own delivery of the plant operating plan and performance commitments across safety, quality, service, cost, people, reliability, and sustainability.
• Lead plant financial performance, resource planning, production execution, and management of controllable manufacturing costs.
• Establish disciplined performance-management practices that make results and risks visible, clarify ownership, and drive timely corrective action.

• Ensure the reliability, effective use, and responsible stewardship of the facility, equipment, capital investments, manufacturing processes, and technology.
• Lead continuous improvement that strengthens problem solving, productivity, capacity, quality, and operational resilience.
• Ensure manufacturing systems, data, and digital tools are effectively adopted and used to support sound decisions and sustainable performance.

• Translate company strategy into clear site priorities, plans, measures, investments, and accountabilities.
• Lead site-level risk management, contingency planning, crisis readiness, and long-range planning for capacity, capital, technology, and workforce…