Plant Operations Manager

1 week ago

Alton, Illinois, United States Kerry Full time
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About Kerry

Kerry is a leading taste and nutrition company that partners with customers to create healthier, tastier, and more sustainable products. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition.

About the Role

The Plant Supervisor role is crucial in driving the success and efficiency of our Alton, IL facility. This position ensures the smooth execution of daily production activities, champions safety, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives, and enforces safety protocols.

Key Responsibilities

  • Safety Leadership: Enforces safety rules, encourages safe behaviors, and corrects unsafe conditions and actions to prevent accidents.
  • Quality & Food Safety: Endorses and ensures conformance to Quality & Food Safety Policies and Management Systems, reporting any failures to site management.
  • Direct Leadership: Takes on additional responsibilities beyond production supervision, including EHS, Quality, Maintenance, and Warehouse duties.
  • Production Execution: Manages production schedules to meet quality specifications and packaging requirements, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory policies.
  • Staff Coordination: Supervises hourly staff to meet customer delivery requirements and achieve equipment effectiveness targets in fermentation, filtering, or concentration.
  • Training: Trains new and existing team members on equipment operations, maintains procedures and instructions, and ensures adherence to established processes.
  • KPI Improvement: Assists in implementing initiatives to improve plant performance based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like safety, quality, maintenance, product cost, and production volumes.
  • Delegation of Authority: Represents the site in the absence of the Plant Manager and may support other plants in the network.
  • Production Reporting: Ensures accurate production reporting in SAP and supports reports to measure performance against KPI targets.
  • Employee Scheduling: Schedules production personnel, approves vacation requests, arranges coverage, and manages timecards in Kronos.
  • Employee Management: Manages hiring, termination, corrective actions, reviews, training, coaching, and conflict resolution for the team.
  • Continuous Improvement: Leads cleanliness, sanitation, and housekeeping initiatives, and promotes continuous improvement through CI foundations like 5S, root cause analysis, and visual controls.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Minimum of 5 years' experience as production supervision in a manufacturing plant or related industry.
  • Previous Leadership experience is required.
  • Ability to understand functioning process equipment.
  • Good communication, leadership, planning, and organizational skills are required.
  • Influential track record in training.
  • Must have good computer/IT skills; and proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite as well as an aptitude to learn new systems.

About Kerry

Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Additional Information

Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Important Note

A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. Kerry does not currently utilize video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a "starter kit," investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses.

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