Plant Manager

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

Collinwood is assisting our client, in seeking a Plant Manager for a family owned Bakery in the Food and Beverage manufacturing industry
. The ideal for this opportunity will need experience in Bread and Baked goods
. Relocation assistance is provided for the Indiana location.

What you will be doing:

• Oversee manufacturing operations for a commercial baking facility consisting of hourly associates and a management staff.
• Responsible for all aspects of operations and achieving key performance measurements related to personnel safety, quality and food safety, service, and cost, while continually improving process reliability and performance.
• Build a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and professionalism, demonstrating active support in the Company's values and policies.
• Train, coach, oversee and manage Production, Engineering, Sanitation and Shipping departments and managers.
• Conducts performance appraisals and talent assessments of the management team and recommends and/or implements appropriate training programs to address developmental needs.
• Implement company standards for formulas, scaling weights, pan sizes, bag sizes, bake times, and all production control processes for bread and roll products.
• Strong leadership skills with the proven ability to set a vision, manage change, develop others, and strategically plan for continuous improvement.
• Ability to plan and coordinate use of Client, ingredients, and equipment to ensure efficient production of consistent quality products.
• Direct resources of plant and equipment toward the most efficient production of baked goods
• Coordinate with Sanitation to ensure plants and equipment meet regulatory requirements for cleanliness and product safety.
• Implement best practices to achieve company standards on controllable costs.
• Promote safety through work procedures, and employee safety programs.
• Ability to trouble shoot equipment to ensure optimum product quality is achieved.
• Ensure that consistent quality product is provided to Sales on a timely basis.
• Ensure that all union contractual obligations are fulfilled.
• Coordinate and implement company policies and procedures in all areas.
• Ensure compliance of all Local, State & Federal regulations and recall procedures
• Evaluate product quality to ensure compliance with established standards.
• Collaborative and able to build/maintain partnering relationships within all departments and key managers.
• Demonstrated ability to function successfully in a fast paced, changing work environment.
• Coordinates the daily and weekly production schedule.

What we need from you:

• 5+ years of work experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment required preferably within the bread and bun baking industry.
• 5+ years of experience leading a high-performance management team.
• In-depth knowledge of baking science and technology, process control, improvement and understanding of the unique equipment in a large-scale bakery production plant, along with operation of that equipment relative to the baking process.
• Solid understanding in the functionality of ingredients with time and temperature in the baking process
• Strong oral and written communications, planning and problem-solving skills, influence leadership and team development skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Union management experience is strongly desired.
• Completion of American Institute of Baking (AIB) in-residence baking science and technology course and AIB Science of Baking correspondence course strongly desired (NOT A MUST)
• Knowledge of BRC is highly preferred.
• Continuous improvement or Lean experience.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Management

• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Food and Beverage Services

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