Jobs at C.H. Guenther & Son

Leads capital project planning and execution across manufacturing sites, from feasibility and design through installation, commissioning, startup, and handover. Manages budgets, schedules, risks, vendors, contractors, and cross-functional stakeholders while improving safety, capacity, reliability, quality, automation, and productivity. Develops capital plans, business cases, RFQs, project governance, and manufacturing readiness tools. Ensures compliance with food safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements. Travel across North America may be required.

Leads the internal audit function, enterprise risk assessment, audit planning, operational and financial controls testing, IT and cybersecurity audits, fraud investigations, regulatory compliance reviews, acquisition due diligence, and Board reporting. Oversees audit staff, external audit coordination, remediation tracking, and controls implementation across manufacturing plants, warehouses, corporate functions, and international operations.

Manages and grows strategic relationships with national and regional chain accounts through consultative selling, account expansion, business reviews, pricing proposals, and new product commercialization. Leads customer growth initiatives, sales budgeting, supply agreements, and cross-functional collaboration across marketing, R&D, procurement, quality, finance, supply chain, and culinary teams. Requires substantial U.S. travel of up to 40%.

Leads the enterprise applications portfolio, including SAP ECC, application strategy, modernization, acquisitions, ERP integrations, and business-critical application delivery. Partners with executive and cross-functional leaders to align technology investments with business objectives. Oversees implementations, vendors, consulting partners, operational support, and application teams while building organizational capabilities and standardizing scalable processes. The role is based in San Antonio with regular domestic and periodic international travel.

Leads plant engineering, facilities maintenance, capital planning, manufacturing process improvements, equipment installations, budgets, vendor relationships, safety compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees plant layouts, product launches, equipment modifications, root-cause analysis, operational reporting, and standard operating procedures. Requires an engineering bachelor’s degree, five or more years of manufacturing experience, CAD experience, and strong process improvement and problem-solving skills.

Manage plant HR functions including employee relations, recruitment, onboarding, training, performance management, compliance (OSHA, HACCP, GMP), union relations, payroll support, safety and well-being programs, HR data/reporting, and workforce engagement to support plant operations and a safe, high-performance culture.

Oversees supply chain operations for a food manufacturing plant, including inventory management, procurement, production scheduling, logistics, supplier performance, quality compliance, reporting, and continuous improvement. Leads and develops direct reports while optimizing costs, delivery performance, and material flow. Requires collaboration with production, suppliers, logistics partners, and plant leadership, along with compliance with food safety and company quality standards.

Leads enterprise FP&A, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, performance reporting, scenario modeling, investment analysis, and forecast governance. Provides strategic financial insight to executives and the Board, oversees covenant reporting and finance data integrity, and drives SAP, BI, automation, and AI-enabled transformation. Builds and leads the FP&A organization while partnering across Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, and IT.

Coordinates corporate capital projects by tracking budgets, expenditures, purchase orders, procurement, documentation, workflows, asset inventories, and project closeouts. Supports Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Procurement teams with financial reporting, journal entries, ROI validation, capital planning, and review meetings. Maintains cost center and project data, identifies budget risks, and escalates issues. Requires strong organizational, documentation, communication, and Microsoft Office skills, with approximately 10% travel to other company sites.

Lead sales and distributor development across assigned channels for CHG product portfolio. Manage key retail accounts and a DSD distribution network, acquire new business, oversee brokers, execute trade spend, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive revenue, margin, and product innovation to meet short- and long-term growth targets.

Manage and grow strategic national restaurant accounts using consultative selling. Conduct menu analyses, business reviews, prospecting, and sample submissions. Lead QA incident responses, collaborate cross-functionally (R&D, Supply Chain, Legal, Procurement, Marketing), draft supply agreements/pricing proposals, and meet annual sales and profitability targets. Substantial travel (up to 40%) and territory-based remote work required.