Production Manager

As a Production Manager in our facility, this individual will provide mentoring, coaching and train all production supervisors to develop effective and efficient teams. Collaborate with Plant Steering Team to focus on increasing employee and leadership engagement, developing KPIs and analyzing data, and implement short- and long-term strategies, including project leadership, efficiency, cost reduction and employee engagement. This position requires the ability to handle information and documents professionally and confidentially.   

Experience-Education (Required): 

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Industrial Engineering or related field and 5 plus years of supervisory/management experience in food processing/manufacturing operations with solid progressive leadership experience. In lieu of degree, 7+ years of supervisory/management experience in food processing/manufacturing operations with solid progressive leadership experience.

• Strong presentation, communication, training, and interpersonal skills

• Proven track record of understanding the drivers of product and labor cost variances.    

• Previous experience working as a team leader in a multi-faceted team.

Competencies-Skills (Required): 

• Strategically plan, organize, and manage a department with regards to daily hours, schedules, productivity, quality and safety

• Strong Microsoft Office suite and written communication skills

• Ability to communicate with a variety of people & personalities.

• Must be able to make quick decisions on the spot & support those decisions to your peers, employees, and plant leadership.

• Ability to consistently meet deadlines, manage multiple projects & multi-task with ease.

• Must be detail oriented and have excellent follow through.

• Results orientation with track record of successful achievements

• Active listening skills are a must.

• Ability to influence a positive employee environment.

• Ability to drive safety & safe behaviors while maintaining the goal of preventing all injuries.

• Must be able to influence and drive change management.

• LEAN / Six Sigma / TMM experience.

• Participates in coaching and mentoring as well as additional career development activities to enhance the effectiveness and potential of the team.  

Experience-Education (Preferred): 

• Master's degree in a relevant field

• Intermediate to Advanced Power BI

Competencies-Skills (Preferred):

• High Speed Manufacturing experience

• Demonstrated experience with Continuous Improvement Processes and/or Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt

• Responsible for department costs to budget through effective manpower planning, and scheduling.

Hours/Shift: Day Shift – This role may require weekends or holidays as needed. On call 24/7 365 as needed.

Job Duties (Key Deliverables):

• Meet at least weekly with Supervisors and Managers to review production KPIs.

• Analyze and report weekly and monthly KPI regarding the production capacity of the plant equipment, downtime (planned v unplanned), staffing levels, etc. 

• Coordinate cross functional team to improve efficiencies of the plant based on findings.

•  Partner with cross-functional leadership team to ensure and monitor proper operations support to meet or exceed annual scorecard and elevate and prioritize issues that need addressed.

• Strong production floor presence.

• Communicate effectively, timely, and professionally with co-workers, leadership, and other stakeholders to ensure accurate data reaches all audiences.

• Adapt well to changing priorities with a positive and professional demeanor.

• Create and enhance professional relationships with upstream and downstream key stake holders to facilitate communication, collaboration, and problem solving.

• Maintain Plant Scorecard Dashboard.

Salary Range: $91,120-$136,680.  In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges. 

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

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