Department Manager

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Memphis, TN
5-7 Years Experience
Food
The Role
Lead the Peanut Butter operations area of a facility in Memphis, ensuring optimal production of Jif products. Develop department master plan, manage daily results, and collaborate with plant functions to meet production needs. Coach team to achieve key metrics and create a positive working environment focused on safety and quality. Manage capital projects to improve operations measures.
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Your Opportunity as the Department Manager

Make a positive impact leading the Peanut Butter operations area of our Memphis facility to ensure optimal production of our famous Jif products. Leverage your leadership skills to coach and inspire your team to achieve key metrics and create a positive working environment with a focus on safety and quality.

Location: Memphis, TN
Work Arrangements: 100% onsite

In this role you will:

  • Develop & deliver department master plan and manage the daily results of the work – includes equipment layout, team design/staffing, results management 

  • Develop capability and leadership characteristics of Peanut Butter Area Leaders and Operations Process Engineers

  • Responsible for meeting Quality, Safety, Reliability, and Cost targets for plant operations

  • Collaborate with other plant functions in order to ensure all production needs are met

  • Coordinate activities to increase Operations Excellence methodologies throughout the plant to improve metrics

  • Coach others on overall plant product flow including all inputs and outputs

  • Maintain open lines of communication with corporate Research & Development teams and Engineering departments

  • Identify and eliminate losses from the operation; Lead in solving issues to cause and implement improvements

  • Manage capital projects to improve Operations measures in the areas of capacity growth, production efficiencies, Quality, and Safety

The Right Place for You 

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs. 

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in technical field

  • 5+ years of manufacturing experience

  • Previous experience managing others

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Strong organization skills

  • Experience directing and managing vendors

  • Ability to teach and lead others

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role (not required):

  • Food processing or manufacturing experience

  • Experience in a high-performance work environment

Learn more about working at Smucker:

  • Our Total Rewards Benefits Program

  • Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business 

  • Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity 

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The Company
HQ: Orrville, OH
5,001 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.

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