Plant Manager - Headland, AL
This is an exempt level position.

Position Summary:

This key role is responsible for leading all aspects of the operations for the Headland Peanut processing facility.  You will have a leading role in driving operational excellence and developing a high-performance team.  You set and maintain ADM/Golden Peanut’s high standards for safety and quality for all departments while maintaining production and efficiency excellence.  A good communicator who can nurture extraordinary interdepartmental, commercial and customer relationships will be most successful.  He/she will have the ability to foster teams and leaders in identifying and sustainably solving problems.   

The Plant Manager reports directly to the Operations Director and leads a site with approximately 60 operations colleagues.

Job Responsibilities:
Production:

Lead all aspects of a Peanut shelling including shelling and hull and fiber plants.Develop a high-performance team by engaging, coaching and developing team members, and by driving accountability and ownership at all levels.   Responsible for environmental, health, safety, quality, efficiency and production of the plant and warehouse operations.Responsible for meeting production requirements safely, reliably, and efficiently.Lead and support performance excellence initiatives.Provide technical knowledge for processes and equipment to obtain performance.Maintain cost controls and oversee budgets in each department.Manage production personnel and equipment in a safe and efficient manner to obtain maximum capacity and performance with optimum yields and quality product.Develop and implement a five-year capital plan in alignment with the business strategy.   

Health, Safety & Environmental:

Maintain the license to operate by developing a strong site safety culture and by ensuring adherence to safety laws, regulations, rules and sound practices.Act as a role model for safety.Work with the Safety and Environmental Center of Excellence and the regional and local management on the continued development and implementation of environmental, health, and safety programs, policies and procedures.Coordinate and contribute to audits, prioritizing and tracking completion of findings.Ensure that unsafe behavior and conditions are corrected.Maintain the necessary environmental, health, and safety records and documentation.

Sanitation/Food Safety:

Ensure the facility maintains world-class sanitation standards.Continually improve and communicate food safety/sanitation/quality programs to plant supervisors and hourly employees.Prepare the facility for, and participate in, regulatory/third party/customer/company audits.

Required Skills:

Four-year degree and a minimum of four years of supervisory experience with increasing manufacturing leadership responsibility, or a minimum of 5 years of hands-on, increasing production leadership experience.Demonstrated leadership in safety.Demonstrated ability to collaborate for achievement and communicate effectively.Demonstrated coaching and leadership skill

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ADM requires the successful completion of a background check. 

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