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About the Role
The Plant Manager oversees all aspects of production, delivery, maintenance, and customer service for the Gold Star feed mill, providing day-to-day leadership support for operations, safety, customer service, maintenance, cleanliness, and grain quality.
Responsibilities
- Direct and manage all plant operations to ensure safe, efficient, timely, and quality-controlled feed production.
- Own plant production planning and execution, including scheduling, workflow, labor utilization, equipment availability, ingredient availability, and coordination with transportation.
- Manage plant staffing and organizational structure, including determining staffing levels, scheduling employees, controlling overtime, and identifying staffing gaps.
- Manage labor effectively to meet production requirements while controlling overtime.
- Proactively identify operational constraints and develop solutions to minimize their impact.
- Maintain Safe Feed/Safe Food certification and ensure compliance with cGMPs, quality programs, regulatory requirements, and operating procedures.
- Maintain accurate ingredient, finished-feed, packaging, and supply inventories; investigate discrepancies and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure quality-control procedures are followed, review quality data, investigate deviations, and implement corrective actions.
- Own plant safety performance and actively enforce company safety policies and procedures.
- Interview, select, onboard, train, coach, and develop employees.
- Establish clear performance expectations, provide timely feedback, and address performance issues.
- Lead the entire plant team and develop supervisors and key employees.
- Manage plant operating costs and identify opportunities to improve productivity, labor efficiency, waste, rework, downtime, and inventory control.
- Monitor plant performance using established metrics and develop corrective action plans.
- Foster a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and curiosity.
- Communicate effectively with senior leadership and cross-functional partners regarding plant performance, staffing, operational risks, and issues.
- Take ownership of plant-level problems through resolution.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
- College degree in Ag Business or Feed/Milling Science is a plus.
- 2-3 years feed mill supervisory experience preferred.
- Extensive exposure to batch feed manufacturing, pelleting, grain processing, and truck/rail operations.
- High level of detail, multi-tasking, analytical, and problem-solving skills with intuition to create solutions.
- Positive, self-motivated individual with organization, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Strong customer service commitment.
- Ability to navigate an office environment.
- Must have the ability to climb ladders, lift up to 75 lbs, bend, kneel, stand for long periods, work in confined spaces, work with heights, and work in harsh environments (hot, cold temperatures and dusty conditions).
- Regular and predictable attendance on site.
- Job may require occasional travel within the United States.
Skills
- Organization skills
- Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Listening skills
- Feedback skills (verbal and written)
- Teamwork skills
- Leadership skills
- Customer service commitment
Location
- On-site
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-3 years supervisory experience preferred
Education Level
- College degree in Ag Business or Feed/Milling Science is a plus
About the Company
- At Gold Star, we offer feed and nutrition services and commodity trading in the northeastern U.S., primarily to dairies.
- As feed and commodity specialists, our customers count on us to originate feed for the mills, manufacture it according to their unique specifications and handle logistics for a safe and smooth delivery every time.