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About the Role
Steuben Foods is seeking a Director of Milk Plant, Processing, & Blending to lead key operational departments. This role is responsible for operational leadership, continuous improvement, technical and process leadership, commercialization support, food safety and quality compliance, talent development, and financial management, partnering closely with various departments to support manufacturing performance and business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Set department goals, operating plans, and performance expectations.
- Monitor production, labor, yield, downtime, quality, and cost performance and take corrective action when targets are missed.
- Optimize labor, materials, utilities, equipment, and production capacity.
- Ensure production readiness and execution of scheduled operations.
- Drive reduction of waste, product loss, downtime, and operating costs.
- Set and track improvement goals for Blending, Processing, and Milk Plant operations.
- Lead improvement initiatives and ensure improvements are implemented and sustained.
- Develop and prioritize projects based on safety, quality, capacity, efficiency, and cost.
- Use performance data to identify improvement opportunities.
- Serve as the operations lead for new business and product opportunities affecting Blending and Processing.
- Evaluate manufacturability, capacity, equipment capability, process requirements, and operational risks.
- Support customer visits, technical discussions, trials, audits, and operational reviews.
- Lead operational readiness and cross-functional execution for new product launches.
- Coordinate plant trials, validation, startup, and transition to commercial production.
- Provide technical leadership and serve as the escalation point for complex processing issues.
- Lead root cause investigations and process optimization efforts.
- Support process design, equipment changes, validation, and implementation of new technologies.
- Partner with R&D and Engineering on process and equipment development.
- Maintain compliance with food safety, quality, regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
- Maintain audit readiness and support FDA, USDA, Kosher, SQF, customer, and regulatory inspections.
- Partner with Quality on deviations, non-conformances, complaints, and corrective actions.
- Lead safety performance, incident investigations, risk assessments, and corrective actions.
- Coach and develop direct reports and build leadership capability throughout the departments.
- Set performance expectations, conduct reviews, and establish development plans.
- Support succession planning, workforce planning, engagement, and retention.
- Develop and manage departmental budgets and control spending.
- Identify cost savings and productivity opportunities.
- Develop business cases and track return on investment for major initiatives.
- Partner with Engineering on capital projects, equipment selection, commissioning, startup, and facility expansion.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Food Science, Dairy Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of manufacturing leadership experience in food, beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical, aseptic, or related industries.
- 5+ years of people management experience.
- Experience with low-acid aseptic processing, beverage processing, dairy processing, or another regulated process environment.
- Experience leading continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives.
- Working knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, SQF, Kosher, USDA, FDA requirements, food safety, and EHS requirements.
- Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, budgeting, and business skills.
Skills
- Thermal processing
- HTST/UHT processing
- Aseptic processing
- Sterilization
- Process controls
- Product formulation
- Ingredient handling
- Product transfer
- Dairy receiving
- Processing systems
- CIP systems
- Process automation
- Lean manufacturing
- Kaizen
- TPM
- Six Sigma
- Operational Excellence methodologies
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of manufacturing leadership experience
- 5+ years of people management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Food Science, Dairy Science, or a related technical discipline
- Master's degree
- Lean or Six Sigma certification
- Better Process Control School certification
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $170,000
About the Company
- Steuben Foods is committed to equal employment opportunity.
Equal Opportunity
- We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.