Senior Manager, Technical Operations

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Cambridge, MD
7+ Years Experience
Food
The Role
The Senior Manager, Technical Operations at TreeHouse Foods is responsible for leading and influencing the facility’s technical health, strategic vision, capital plan, reliability programs, and technical team capability. The role involves driving value for the Cambridge site by executing capital projects, improving safety and productivity, and promoting a culture of excellence and efficiency within the technical team.
Summary Generated by Built In

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

MD Cambridge

Job Type:

Engineering Manufacturing

Job Posting Title:

Senior Manager, Technical Operations

About Us: 

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of more than two dozen production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.  

What You Gain: 

  • Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopUwith more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way. 

  • An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups. 

  • Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting periodyou’re eligible from your first day! 

  • 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll. 

  • Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays). 

  • Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs.  

Job Description:

About the Role:

The Senior Manager, Technical Operations is a key member of the factory steering team reporting directly into the Plant Manager with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Corporate Technical Operations and Engineering team. This role serves as the Technical/Engineering functional leader for the site, responsible for leading and influencing the facility’s technical health, technical strategic vision, site capital plan, predictive and preventative reliability programs and processes, and the collective capability and skillset within the technical team. You will drive value for the Cambridge site, a Broth and Ready-to-Drink plant, by performing the following functions:

  • Leading by example:
    • Demonstrates a strong passion for Engineering/Technical excellence, particularly through a commitment to investing in the team’s individual capability and skills development.
    • Leads the capital management process and vision at the site, not only driving capital efficiency and capital stewardship, but also ensuring flawless execution.
  • Being a change maker:
    • Flawlessly executes capital and non-capital enabled projects, working with local and corporate stakeholders.
    • Drive’s capital efficiency by looking at alternative technical solutions and ways to improve costs to implement projects.
    • Drives site efficiency by constantly looking at opportunities to improve safety, maintenance costs and productivity wherein the operating life of the equipment is extended, efficiencies are improved, and operating costs are lowered.
    • Promotes and role models a “Zero Loss and Zero Breakdown” mindset.
  •  Being a change champion:
    • Provides an environment that encourages creative solutions to technical problems, rapid reapplication of best practices, and a willingness to experiment and collaborate. 
    • Unlocks value and execution excellence with the team by bringing new ways of working and developing technical capabilities in the relentless pursuit of driving exceptional site performance.
  • Being a dot connector:
    • Works closely with the site team in building and executing against a master plan that enables improved performance.
    • Works cross-site as well, engaging and collaborating with the other technical managers and corporate technical teams, to further grow collective capabilities across TreeHouse.


About You

You’ll fit right in if you have:

  • Technical/Process Knowledge:
    • Well versed in processing, filling, packaging, utility systems, etc., typically found in food manufacturing and breadth of experience in reliability systems and processes.
    • Excellent capital management and project execution skills, with a successful track record of leading projects upwards of $3 - $5MM and setting an investment strategy for a site.
    • Well-grounded in sanitary design principles, project chartering concepts, and processes deployed to ensure project startups are vertical.
    • Operational experience with TPM principles (i.e., pillars, systems, standard work) is highly desired. Prior pillar-lead experience a real plus.
  • Style/Experiences:
    • The candidate must possess excellent leadership, organizational and communication skills, along with the ability to effectively problem solve and work through conflicts.
    • Track record of successfully leading and building technically diverse teams.
    • Must be comfortable navigating through times of uncertainty and ambiguity.
    • Must be collaborative and cross-functional, hold high standards of excellence, and a passion for driving exceptional results in a way that is consistent with our organizational values.

Qualifications and Requirements:

  • 10+ years of progressive Technical leadership inclusive of leading a Maintenance and Engineering department.
  • BS in an Engineering discipline or a similar Technical degree; advanced degrees and/or formal project management training or certifications also a plus.
  • Adept at navigating in traditional Engineering and Maintenance support programs such as: AutoCAD, MS Project, SAP PM (or equivalent CMMS)

Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away!

Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team!

At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact [email protected]

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Top Skills

Engineering
The Company
HQ: Oak Brook, IL
2,680 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Rooted in tradition and built with a strategic vision, TreeHouse Foods provides private label food and beverage offerings to retail grocery and food away from home customers across North America.

TreeHouse’s branches extend across multiple product categories providing custom solutions for most of the leading grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the United States and Canada. Our growing product portfolio includes: Baked Goods, Condiments, Snacks, Meals and Beverage

Customers partner with TreeHouse to receive the best service, quality, and value for their custom brands. Our integrity, operational excellence, and market insights have made for a great view up here at TreeHouse and we like what we see on the horizon.

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