Us
Department Manager
Emporia, KS
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
LeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Your Opportunity as a Department Manager The Department Manager is responsible for day-to-day direction and oversight for the manufacturing of bakery products and teams.
- Willingness to work off shift (including nights, weekends, and/or holidays) and flow to the work as needed.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for leading an operations department to support the business
- Develop capability and leadership characteristics in Area Leaders, Process Engineers, Controls Leader, and Advanced Technical Leadership
- Lead and teach complete understanding of overall plant product flow including all inputs, product transformations, and outputs
- Identify and eliminate operations losses; Lead in solving issues to cause and implement improvements
- Manage capital budget/projects to improve Operations measures in the areas of capacity growth, production efficiencies, Quality, and Safety
- Always manage with Basic Beliefs as a foundation and preserves Smucker culture
- The Department Manager will lead the team to implement best practices and standards to continue to improve and manage to KPI's.
Requirements
- A High School Diploma or equivalent is required
- At least 5 years of manufacturing operational experience managing people and teams
- 2+ years of manufacturing operational experience
- Priority setting and Problem solving: Demonstrate ability to be decisive, proactive, and strategic in decision making
- 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.
Nice to have
- A bachelor's degree is preferred (an engineering or technical degree is preferred)
- Food processing or manufacturing experience
- Experience in a high-performance work environment
- Work effectively across organization boundaries and with diverse teams
- Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and listening skills
- Strong organization skills
- Experience directing and managing vendors
- Be available after hours/weekends
Benefits
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Company info
- 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:
- This individual will organize and lead production to ensure that products are produced consistently and efficiently to specified quality and operational standards to be shipped to customers on time.
Equal opportunity
- We're an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
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