Plant Manager Hazleton, PA Posted ago

Top Reasons to Work at Bimbo Bakeries USA:

• Salary Range: $116,200 - $162,700
• Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Paid Time Off
• 401k & Company Match

Bakery Leaders play an important role in helping BBU win as one team, bake with world‑class practices, grow our people, and serve our customers. They embrace the consumer and serve our customers by leading the bakery team to produce world‑class products on time, and in full. They ensure operational capabilities by leading all aspects of the bakery in setting strategic priorities, achieving goals, coaching other leaders, and supporting the training required for executing the Operations Excellence Playbook.

Bakery Leaders empower and involve Department Leaders in helping their teams achieve key performance metrics, and coach each Department Leader individually towards continuous improvement and professional growth. They create a compelling bakery culture by engaging and developing their team through effective leadership and coaching strategies and expect ownership and accountability in their teams to achieve results across people, safety, quality, service, and cost.

• Lead as an Operations Excellence Vision Carrier, serves the frontline through pursuit of excellence, and drives accountability for running the playbook across all bakeries.
• Engage and develop core competencies in Department Leaders through onboarding, training, coaching and consistent performance feedback, and coach Department Leaders towards an empowered, problem‑solving mentality to consistently achieve world‑class standards.
• Build a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and professionalism, demonstrating active pursuit for the company’s culture.
• Uphold and promote our E5 Leadership Behaviors:
  Embrace the Consumer, Ensure Operational Capabilities, Empower and Involve, Engage and Develop, and Expect Ownership and Accountability.
• Operate with a One Team mentality by supporting Department Leaders in Production, Maintenance, Sanitation and Shipping to win the shift and ensure production is to schedule and shipment to order.
• Partner with Business Unit leadership, other leaders in the bakery, and cross‑functional teams to identify and implement profit‑driving, quality‑of‑life‑improving strategies and programs.
• Leverage deep technical competence and partners with others to accelerate problem‑solving and solution implementation.
• Demonstrate full commitment to Quality and Food Safety principles by leading by example, actively participating in, and providing adequate resources to support the development, implementation, maintenance and ongoing improvement of the Quality and Food Safety Systems.
• Deliver on Key Performance Indicators for People, Asset Reliability, Quality, Safety, Service, and Cost.
• Lead the Safety Integrated Management System for the bakery and ensure every leader and associate is engaged in achieving world class safety performance.
• Utilize quantitative performance data to set strategic bakery priorities that drive results across all need areas.
• Oversee the financial and health of the bakery, creating and maintaining annual budgets.

• Operational Execution: This role requires the ability to think strategically about business needs, set data‑based priorities, and build plans with Department Leaders to achieve improved business KPIs.
• Set the standard: This role has overall responsibility for universal achievement of Operations Excellence standards and practices, manufacturing safety, culture, quality, environmental compliance, and productivity for the bakery location. This role requires a knowledge of safety and environmental‑related concepts including compliance with State, Federal and Local regulations. This candidate must be able to travel for meetings, Factory Acceptance Testing (FATs), Benchmarking, etc.
  
  Average travel is 10‑15%.
• Drive our culture: Our GB values and culture are what make our company different. It is critical that the Bakery Leader builds a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, providing consistent leadership in working with and managing bakery leadership and associates…