Plant Manager

2 weeks ago


Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States Bimbo Bakeries Full time
Plant Manager Job Description

Bimbo Bakeries USA is seeking a highly skilled Plant Manager to lead our commercial baking facility. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for overseeing manufacturing, maintenance, and shipping operations, ensuring a safe and efficient work environment for our associates.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the achievement of a zero-injury workplace by ensuring safe work conditions and compliance with all state and federal regulations.
  • Demonstrate full commitment to Quality, legality, and Food Safety by actively participating, leading by example, and providing adequate resources to support the development and implementation of our Quality and Food Safety Systems.
  • Maintain a focus on the front line and a bias for action, ensuring associates have the tools, resources, and capabilities to succeed and deliver on expectations.
  • Understand, coach, and teach the principles of the BBU Manufacturing Transformation, including lean tools, process capability, and operational discipline.
  • Responsibility for all aspects of operations and achieving key performance measurements related to personnel safety, quality, and food safety, service, and cost, while continually improving process reliability and performance.
Requirements:
  • Results Orientation: Focused on improving business results through introduction of incremental improvements in business practices.
  • Change Leadership: Encourages associates to identify improvement opportunities and sets realistic challenges for the team.
  • Learning and Adopting Best Practices: Able to learn innovative approaches and concepts, identify and develop innovative ideas or best practices, and apply them to their business.
  • Strategic Thinking with Business Insight: Ability to understand the company's competitive context and develop his/her own plan within the general company strategy.
  • People Oriented Leadership: Focused on optimizing, developing, and improving work teams by achieving a balance between the productive and the humane.

Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Food Science, or a technical field required. Master's degree preferred. 10+ years of increasingly responsible manufacturing experience, at least 5 years which must be in the food industry. 4+ years of experience leading a high-performance management team. Demonstrated leadership of safety initiatives that drive a zero-injury culture.

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.



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