Plant General Manager

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Plant General Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, direction, and management of our North Kingstown, RI case ready plant operations and its team members. The Plant General Manager is fully accountable for meeting plant safety, food safety, quality, environmental, costs, and operating plan objectives. Other responsibilities include customer relationship leadership, implementing, and assuring alignment with business strategies, processes, and programs to ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements related to: food safety, employee safety, security, environmental and human resource compliance.

This role ensures that North Kingstown provides products that meet our customer needs and also represents the company and its interests in the community.

Key Accountabilities

• Be a Safety and Food Safety Champion. Create an environment in which employees go home in the same (or better) condition than they arrived. Actively work to prevent/eliminate hazards that cause injury or illness. Champion safety processes, ergonomic efforts and hold location accountable for keeping their co-workers safe. Champion the elimination of adulterants in our end-products. Ensure resources are available and all processes are being followed that help us minimize risk to consumers, customers and the company.

Ensure compliance with local, provincial, and federal environmental laws and regulations. Be a positive role model for other companies within the community. Work to identify ways to minimize environmental footprint.

• Ensure effective and efficient operations. Maintain the physical condition and appearance which reflects the standards of quality and service of our business. Collaborate with other General Manager’s to ensure best practice sharing. Develop leaders for Cargill and provide tools and structure for location to meet their P&L objectives.

• Be an employer of choice in the community. Create an environment where all employees are expected to be active, contributing members of the business. Hold team accountable to values, principles and goals. Recognize successes and challenge people to be better than they thought possible. Create opportunities for growth and development. Ensure an inclusive environment that is representative of the local market.

• Champion business strategy by staying focused on customer needs: 'clean, cold, correct and on time'. Use business capabilities and plant resources to be a customer advocate. This position is critical in ensuring a strong and healthy relationship with Wal Mart to ensure we are meeting their needs as well as focusing on continuous improvement based on the discussions resulting from the relationship.

• Active champion of our community outreach efforts. Be a visible presence in the community through active involvement, building networks and understanding the needs and concerns of the community.

• Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of six years of related work experience

• Minimum five years food/meat processing manufacturing experience with various roles and progressive responsibility in further processing operations

• Minimum five years of direct management/leadership experience (influencing, coaching, managing through others, developing diverse work teams)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in…