Your Opportunity as the Operations Manager
Leads all Donette processing and packaging operations. Functions as a member of the site leadership team. Owns all results including safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, sustainability, and organizational capability. Leads targeted initiatives to drive continuous improvement across the site. Models continuous improvement by implementing systemic changes.
Location: Arkadelphia, AR bakery
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site
Reports To: Plant Manager
In this role you will:
- Support and foster our Company Culture through role modeling our Basic beliefs and Our Commitment to Each Other
- Responsible for all processing and packing operations
- Responsible for meeting or exceeding safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, sustainability, and organizational capability targets
- Responsible for development and effective management of the operation’s budgets
- Responsible for department staffing and leadership development.
- Work with all plant functions, including departments and work system pillars, to ensure all production needs are met
- Achieve an excellent understanding of operational capabilities and product flow including all inputs and outputs
- Collaboration with all pillars and maintaining a healthy relationship between Operations and pillars
- Identify and eliminate losses from the operation; lead in solving issues to cause and implement improvements; utilize Critical Thinking tools
- Participate in the annual Site Master Planning process
- Develop and deliver Department Master Plan; manage the implementation
- Support HPO (High Performance Organization) vision and work system and develop a plan to move the workforce in the direction of the vision
- Support Operational Excellence programs and model behaviors
- Facilitate the DDS (Daily Direction Setting) meeting with a focus on identification of losses and assignment of in-depth failure analysis, when appropriate.
- Analyze production capacity to ensure strategies that support customer demand
- Coach the management of capital projects to improve Operations measures in the areas of capacity growth, production efficiencies, Quality, and Safety
- Collaborate with Innovation Teams to support the development, testing and launch of new products
- Ensure that essential business information is routinely and clearly communicated so employees clearly understand the operation’s Vision and results toward achievement of goals
- In conjunction with the HR Manager and Plant Manager, effectively manage employee relations issues
- Professionally represent the site to all constituents and stakeholders, including but not limited to: Internal Corporate Business Partners; Customers; Vendors; Contractors; Regulatory Representatives, Local and State Government, etc.
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:
- A bachelor’s degree is required
- A minimum of 5 years of manufacturing experience
- Building a high-performance work culture and systems
- Build and develop strong leaders
- Lead a large organization to deliver business needs
- Leading an operation where employee safety receives top priority, followed closely by product quality and productivity
- Priority setting and problem solving
- Decisive, proactive, and strategic in decision making
- Organizational skills
- Work effectively across organization boundaries and with diverse teams
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Food manufacturing industry
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Ability to be flexible in changing business needs
- Weekend work will be expected on an as needed basis to support key initiatives
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and develop effective working relationships across all levels of the organization
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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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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