Plant Manager – Baked Goods

Our client is an industry leader in the Food and Beverages Manufacturing industry specifically in baking industry and fresh baking goods

They also continue to invest heavily in the development of new products and responding to consumer demands and are experiencing fantastic growth and feedback from newly developed healthy product offerings. They are seeking an experienced and driven Plant Manager to lead one of their key business units across the plant.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promoting and upholding company performance standards and ideology (on time delivery, quality, continuous improvement and work ethic).
• Collaborate with and work closely with TFI sales, livestock, and other group functions such as engineering, HR, finance to achieve shared business KPI’s.
• Ensure all daily production targets are met and that all products meet company and client specifications.
• Identify opportunities to enhance yield recovery whilst maintaining specifications.
• Develop key metrics for all departments to deliver commercial and operational outcomes, performance and process improvement.
• Leads the plant’s activities in improving performance in the areas of cost, quality and service.
• Together with the plant team, develops and maintains a work environment which is both safe and sanitary.
• Provides leadership in the production of finished product while improving various fixed costs and various Variable costs.
• Control all associated operational costs according to prevailing annual budget forecast.
• Investigate opportunities to reduce costs – packaging, process improvement, design modifications and automation.
• Ensure all administration requirements are met in a timely manner.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in baked goods or food industry, at least five of which must have been at a senior management level.
• Demonstrated ability to organise and plan workflow, set priorities and meet deadlines in a project and contract management context.
• Proven results in the area of team development and process improvement
• Strong leadership skills
• Effective Communicator; Sensitive Listener
• Results Oriented
• Creative problem solver
• Good strategist