Leads compliance with all Safe Quality Food and Food safety requirements for the facility.
Operates the plant by corporate and plant policies, customer requirements, and approved budgets.
Provide leadership and set plant objectives based on corporate goals and customer needs.
Communicate plant production-related requirements and solutions to the relevant departments
Analysis of plant results, discussing areas of concern with the management team
Conduct plant production meetings with plant employees, and salary associates.
Directly observe operating departments regularly to ensure the quality of production and adherence to sanitation and safety standards.
Ensures the fulfillment of customer orders within the specifications of quality, quantity, and cost.
Manages the assigned business metrics including yield, labor efficiency, and overhead expenses.
Demonstrates leadership to production and warehouse employees to ensure consistent quality of work.
Maintains effective communication of expectations and goals throughout the plant environment.
Develop and communicate business impact with weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reports and presentations in Excel and PowerPoint. Make regular presentations to management teams on performance.
Ensure compliance with all OHSA and environmental regulatory and corporate standards. Investigate and identify the root causes of any non-compliance.
Accountable for a safe working environment through the development of strategies focused on accident reduction as well as energy and waste minimization.
Oversee effective deployment of human resources throughout the plant and ensure the correct administration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Responsible for reviewing the SQF Annual Review checklist with Management.
Determine and implement key Quality Food Safety objectives, determine who is responsible, and assign a time frame for competition.
Responsible for site security /Food defense.
Responsible for Business Continuity Team: decision-making, oversight, and investigating actions arising from a crisis management incident.