Location: Decatur, AL
Work Arrangements: Night Shift 6pm-6am rotating days, 100% on-site
In this Role You Will:
- Champion department daily plan and following through on open items needed by the team. Participates in the department Daily Direction Setting (DDS) meetings
- Be accountable for the daily operations and team performance (Safety, Quality, Reliability, Cost, Org. Capability)
- Role model our Basic Beliefs, Our Commitment to Each Other, and Emotional Intelligence to build resonance
- Work with operating teams to address safety concerns and assist in resolution
- Be responsible for driving department issues to root cause and developing a zero-loss and continuous improvement culture
- Provide performance management, staffing strategy and developing a “flow to the work” culture
- Partner with the Manager in developing and delivering Department Master Plan
- Ensure that essential business information and general expectations are clearly communicated and understood by all members of the team
- Develop and coach operational and leadership skills of Team Leaders and Technicians to enhance peak performance through Smucker High-Performance Organization (HPO) tools and design principles
- Assist in developing and executing key technical and organizational projects while increasing capability within the organization
- Be responsible to collaborate across all pillars and leadership
- Act as the technical resource for operating teams
The Right Role 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 (preferably an Engineering degree)
- 2 years of manufacturing operational experience
- More than 2 years of supervisory experience, coaching, developing, and leading others
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Relevant management experience
- Project planning experience
- Prior experience managing people and/or teams in a high-performance work environment
- Food processing, pet, or human food manufacturing, and/or engineering experience
Work Environment: This job operates in a manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be high.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently.
- May push and pull heavy trash carts, dough carts, portable equipment, and catch pans.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
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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.
