Assistant Plant Manager

As Assistant Plant Manager, you will support the Plant Manager by guiding the successful completion of plant-wide programs and projects. You will be committed to fulfilling our Promise by supporting a consistent culture and experience, enabling your team members to take pride, aspire, and grow along with the rest of Ardent Mills. You will interpret and adapt policies by sharing best practices and refining the methods and techniques used.

You will provide direction to your team based on general policies, management guidance, and recommend modifications to operating policies.

As a leader and people manager, the Ardent Mills Values of trust, serving, simplicity, and safety will guide your decisions. You will listen, learn, and serve your team members. You will enable your team to deliver superior business results by constantly learning, reinventing, and challenging yourself to do better. You will inspire people to achieve things they never thought possible. To succeed, you must be able to :

• D eliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day
• S erve others with understanding, respect, and care
• O perate with simplicity, clarity and transparency
• D eal with and drive change
• O rganize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines
• L earn and apply new technology and share your knowledge with others

Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.

• Manage operations, including food safety, plant quality, customer experience, employee and asset safety, plant security, plant environmental, cost savings, continuous improvement, adoption of initiatives and innovation that generate world class efficiencies, and competitive positioning
• Lead a zero-loss culture, assuring a safe working environment and compliance with all EHS and Food Safety Standards
• Formulate or approve short- and long-term operating objectives in areas such as cost reduction, quality improvement, new product development and/or integration
• Drive customer execution to deliver results that meet quality and customer service objectives
• Develop strong customer interaction and relationships
• Collaborate across all functions to achieve optimal total business margin for the plant and the enterprise
• Provide positive labor relations management, contract negotiation and/or union avoidance
• Identify operational discrepancies and provide focused solutions with a timeline for corrective action
• Work with the plant team to continuously improve maintenance and reliability program, the production process, improve safety, optimize production costs, and enhance product quality by implementing best and standard practices
• Work with facility staff and corporate functional leads to plan and execute plant managed capital improvements
• Communicate business results and identify gaps for improvement of key metrics
• Lead a culture and drive activities that help to fulfill Our Promise
• Maintain compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, quality specifications, safety standards, and sanitation practices

• Bachelor’s degree with 2-4 years or High School diploma/GED with 6-8 years of experience in flour milling or related manufacturing industry
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in continuous improvement methodologies, tools, trends and best practices
• Demonstrated ability to use metrics to drive change
• Experience with assembly or process manufacturing
• E xperience with process optimization
• Familiar with safety, environmental, and regulatory policies
• Demonstrated success with project management, including developing capital plans and managing from planning to completion

• Additional 2-4 years of experience with demonstrated increases in responsibility
• Demonstrated a bility to create , modify , and write specifications, training materials, and/or best practices
• W illingness to continue to develop and broaden an extensive knowledge of relevant areas of expertise

• Ability to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required by the operating areas (i.e. safety glasses, protective footwear, hearing protection and, at times, a respirator)
• Ability to work a rotating schedule including nights, weekends and holidays
• Ability to work a machine-paced continuous process that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with conditions which include:
• Heat/ cold temperatures (inclement weather)
• Indoor/outdoor environment
• Dusty environment
• Noisy environment
• Frequent moving/vibration/ or other motion of equipment/processes
• Elevated places, to include stairs/ladders Ability to perform work at a computer and other administrative/managerial tasks

• 10-25% travel required
• Willing to work weekends, holidays, 7-day weeks, and opposing shifts, when needed
• Willing to relocate as promotional…