Assistant Plant Operations Manager

**Key Result Areas**:
**Performance Standards**:
Core Values

Continuously exhibit and set the example for others in display of Company values: Customer Centric, Ambitious, Proactive, Innovative, Collaborative and Accountable.

Regulatory Requirements/ Quality Assurance
- Ensure compliance with all food regulatory requirements.
- Ensure food safety and GMP’s are adhered to at site.
- Maintain superior scores on all third-party audits (AIB, SQF, ASI or similar).
- Ensure all shipped product meets product specifications.
- Ensure due diligence toward all customer complaints.
- Notify Corporate QA about potential withdrawals/recalls of products.
- Ensure compliance with all AB Mauri Yeast Quality Management System (YQMS) standards.

Customer Requirements
- Pass all customer quality audits.
- Pass certification requirements.
- Develop and maintain a productive relationship with the customer service and sales teams.

Supply Chain
- Ensure that receiving, shipping, and warehousing functions operate at a high standard and efficiently.
- Assist in demand planning and forecasting with corporate planning and logistics.
- Ensure a good communication channel exists from the plant to customer service team.
- Oversee the activities for planning, purchasing, packaging rooms and shipping/receiving departments.
- Manage yearly objectives and evaluations of supervisors, plant buyer and planning engineer.
- Look after efficiently organizing the warehouse, in cooperation with the receiving, production and shipping departments.
- Implement and coordinate systems for warehousing, tracking merchandise, raw materials, packaging, etc.
- Ensure efficient organization of inventory management and stock movement (incoming and outgoing)

Operations Control
- Ensure plant packaging operations meet defined standards (Production, Engineering, QA/QC, YQMS, HR, Accounting, Purchasing, Maintenance, and Effluent).
- Work with other sites and ABM global and regional yeast technologists to identify, share, and implement best practices.
- Relentlessly execute against defined process standards while fostering a continuous improvement culture.
- Lead the CI program for the plant.

Environmental Health & Safety
- Develop and maintain comprehensive standard health and safety reporting package.
- Cultivate a proactive health and safety culture at the site at all levels.
- Develop and maintain environmental and safety teams at the site.
- Ensure emergency response plans are current at the site.
- Ensure regulatory compliance is maintained at the site.
- Maintain environmental risk assessment.

Human Resource Management
- Ensure management functions are completed including recruiting, performance evaluations, conducting staff meetings and taking corrective action as necessary.
- Participate in the hiring, evaluation, and training follow-up of employees.
- Manage weekly work and vacation schedules.
- Enforce and comply with HR policies and procedures. Including disciplinary policies.
- Comply with applicable employment laws.
- Comply with Union Contract policy and procedures.
- Comply with relevant employment laws.

Communication
- Maintain site wide communication plan to include:

- Meetings - site, leadership, department
- Scorecards - ensure completion and posting
- Status reports - period, weekly and event driven.

Leadership
- Establish site priorities to deliver high corporate standards of presentation and leadership across operations.
- Demonstrate innovation in practice to deliver high value.
- Operate to “best practices” in group. Encourage teamwork.
- Co-champion the site’s efforts to improve overall organizational capability and effectiveness as well as site/department KPI’s.

Other
- Serve as site leader when Plant Operations Manager is not present or available.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Technical Degree - Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Microbiology, or relevant experience (an advanced technical or business degree preferred).
- Minimum ten years manufacturing experience, preferably in a managerial role in the food, fermentation, bio-chemical or pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in leading and directing large groups of employees.
- Excellent mechanical aptitude and strong oral / written communication skills.
- Good coaching skills and demonstrated success in developing / mentoring people.
- Demonstrated success in improving quality, reducing costs, EHS performance.
- Experience with Resource Scheduling.
- Must have strong prioritization and analytical skills.
- Understanding of cost accounting principles, overall cost drivers, and business principles.
- Strategic planning skills and ability to set strategic objectives for the facility as well as drill down to individual objectives.
- Excellent leadership and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with Quality Management Systems (SQF, ISO, etc.).
- Understanding of food hygiene procedures and food safety requirements.
- Experience in process control and project engineering.
- Excellent