Plant Manager

Summary The Plant Manager will lead the Tofurky manufacturing operations to meet or exceed safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives through effective utilization of personnel, equipment, systems, and facilities. The Plant Manager is viewed as a key leader and contributor in building and maintaining a strong safety, food safety, and operational excellence culture for our operations located in Hood River, Oregon.

Salary: $135-150k per year + Bonus Eligible, Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities Directs and manages plant operations including safety, environmental, food safety, quality, production, maintenance, continuous improvement, training, and effective employee relations and engagement.

Coaches and mentors others on effectively building strong safety culture, practices, and behaviors.

Promotes a zero-incident culture by putting and/or supporting processes, systems, and programs in place to recognize hazards and prevent incidents before they occur. Ensure all unsafe acts and unsafe working conditions are addressed to completion.

Effectively coaches and guides department leadership in the development of labor usage strategies; optimize resource utilization strategies while reacting to changes in production demands and deadlines.

Coordinate plant activities through planning with departmental managers to ensure the total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Ensure personnel adhere to Tofurky’s internal policies, all legal requirements, and local/state health and safety regulations.

Key partner with the Human Resources department to develop and drive positive employee relations and engagement.

Provide leadership and training to accomplish Tofurky objectives.

Supports the R&D team in new product and/or process development; supports production runs-costing of labor – and scrap/yield standards for new products.

Analyzes and drives action for manufacturing variances within packaging and ingredients, yields/waste streams, line performance, and labor usage; leads management team to implement waste/loss reduction strategies.

Continuous improvement site champion; responsible for building, implementing, and maintaining a continuous improvement mindset.

Develops, implements, and manages KPIs within the manufacturing environment.

Participates in and helps lead regulatory audits.

Ability to multi-task and prioritize both long and short-term objectives.

Required

Education and Experience Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Food Science, or related field.

Minimum of 8 years’ of experience within a manufacturing environment; previous plant management experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications Previous experience in a food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment.

Demonstrated leadership for safety and quality initiatives that drive zero-incident culture.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience collaborating and influencing cross-functionally within an organization.

Experience building and maintaining high-performing teams.

Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement across plant functions.

Work Environment This job operates in both a clerical, office, and manufacturing setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. This position is frequently required to enter the production floor and must follow personnel procedures pertaining to dress and code of conduct in that area.

Physical Demands While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, reach, stoop, kneel or crouch. The ability to frequently and safely lift and/or move up to 45 lbs. is required. The employee is occasionally required to sit and perform duties in a clerical setting.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work This is a salaried, exempt position. Typical days and hours of work are Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. This role is on-site and remote work is not offered. Flexibility in work schedule is occasionally required to accommodate needs of staff on multiple shifts.…