Senior Director of Manufacturing

2 weeks ago

Eustis, United States Valensa International Full time

Senior Director of Manufacturing


Valensa International, a Hurman Health company located in Central Florida, manufactures natural extracts for the nutraceutical, functional food and beverage and condition-specific dietary supplement sectors. We are seeking a manufacturing executive to oversee production and operations of our high-pressure, supercritical CO2 extraction facility based in Eustis, Florida.

 

The ideal candidate has extensive process engineering and manufacturing management experience for companies producing ingredients, nutraceuticals, or specialty chemicals related to food and nutritional products. This ideal candidate also has a successful track record of managing and developing team members. We are looking for a unique blend of technical expertise, operational excellence, and people skills.

 

Key responsibilities:

·        Manage production process and make decisions regarding plant operations, inventory requirements – raw material and finished, staffing requirements and work procedures.

·        Provide Operation & Engineering leadership to plant and other company interests [Drying company, Co-Manufacturers] and be customer facing to represent our plant.

·        Provide hands-on, day-to-day management of plant operation staff.

·        Oversee, design, and implement capital asset projects for upgrades and new operations.

·        Establish process measurement programs and develop action plans to improve efficiency, safer operations, and process improvements.

·        Evaluate and implement new production and quality tracking systems into operational excellence, manufacturing, maintenance, cGMP, and unit operations.

·        Work with logistics and sales teams to optimize the production schedule and Capacity planning to meet customer requirements in short term and in the long term.

·        Collaborate along with the team on product innovation and introduction of new products and processing leveraging the pilot plant.

·        On occasion, identify tolling opportunities for SFE extraction plant with strategic companies to improve utilization of the plant.

·        Ensure adequate training programs and SOPs exist for personnel in operating, maintaining, and repairing the processes of the facility within internal quality and safety GMP programs and applicable FDA, OSHA, and EPA regulations.

 

Professional qualification and skills:

·        Undergraduate Degree in Chemical Engineering

·        10 years + experience in manufacturing operations and personnel management; experience in food ingredient manufacturing a plus

·        Experience and understanding of SFE processing with Botanicals and Biomass are highly desired.

·        Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally and provide public speaking representing the Company as needed.

·        Proficiency with spreadsheet, word processing and database applications

·        Able to work independently as well as efficiently in a team environment.

·        Critical thinking skills and sound ability to apply data-based problem-solving methods is necessary. Black-Belt Lean Six Sigma is a huge plus.

·        Team building and labor management skills.

·        Experience and understanding of plant financial metrics, budgets and P&L working with Finance.

                                                                                                                       

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