Operations Manager

A family-owned Group serving customers globally, Roquette is a leader in speciality food ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients. The products and solutions developed by the Group deliver proven technological, nutritional and health benefits precisely tailored to the pharma, nutrition, food and selected industry markets. Roquette's offer is produced from plant-based raw materials such as corn, wheat, potatoes and peas. Since its foundation over 80 years ago, the Group's growth has been based on innovation, a passion for the job and a commitment to achieve.

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

Want to help us make a difference? Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients. Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

We are looking for our next Operations Manager within our Operations Team. The Operations Manager will be responsible for providing leadership and direction for the site’s technical operations team and driving plant continuous improvement initiatives. The role directs and coordinates all activities of the process and automation engineers and partners with the Manufacturing Technology team and Capital Engineering team to ensure proper prioritization and technical oversight of operations and ensure continuous improvement activities are on track.

The Operations Manager is a key member of the Newark site leadership team and supports and establishes a strong safety and productive culture.

This position is located in Newark, Delaware.

The current salary range for this role is estimated to be $146,367 - $176,052. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation. The specific compensation offered to a candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

• Serves as proactive member of Management Team by providing technical expertise, continuous improvement leadership, and identifying and acting upon cost saving opportunities;
• Actively participates on the Site Leadership team to set direction and optimize overall site productivity;
• Shows courageous leadership by coaching, asking questions, and intervening when needed.
• Challenges status quo and past norms to make the operation more safe and effective:
• Utilize process knowledge to drive performance with technical support teams;
• Interacts with other members of the leadership team, plant staff, and divisional cross-functional groups to optimize plant operations;
• Drive enforcement and continuous improvement of the Roquette Operating System for the site;
• Lead GEMBA program for leaders and managers;
• Ensure effective determination and implementation of operations corrective and preventive actions (CAPA);
• Lead and coordinate sitewide 5S activities;
• Ensure timely and effective execution of operations RCA investigations;
• Lead site efforts for productivity improvement plans and VCP (value creation plan);
• Lead technical team to continuously improve plant OEE;
• Ensure operations department objectives are aligned with site and business direction;
• Improve operations efficiencies and develop and implement best practices;
• Ensure effective daily management of the Operations technical team, which includes technical staff, and resident contractors when applicable;
• Provide technical expertise to analyze and resolve recurring issues that impact plant uptime;
• Implement Lean concepts, improve equipment reliability, operations productivity and optimize overall asset life cycle costs;
• Lead team to provide technical support in order to plan department operations;
• Lead team to provide data needed for bill of materials, yield, OEE, and other key metrics;
• Create, review, manage and share sitewide KPI’s;
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delay;
• Continuously works to improve the total cost of…