Plant Manager | Food & Beverage

Austin, MN, US • Posted 5 days ago • Updated 5 days ago
Full Time
No Travel Required
On-site
150000 - 180000/yr
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Skills

  • Plant Management
  • Operational Leadership
  • Safety Compliance
  • Quality Control
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Strategic Planning
  • Financial Performance
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Process Safety Management
  • Talent Development
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Asset Reliability
  • Maintenance Strategies
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Six Sigma
  • Operational Excellence
  • Change Management
  • Cost Management
  • Supply Chain Coordination
  • Engineering Collaboration

Summary

***Position open to US permenent residents only...

StaffRight Associates is proud to partner with an established industry leader to secure a visionary Plant Manager for their manufacturing facility in Austin, Minnesota. This impactful leadership role commands total oversight of operational performance, safety excellence, financial stewardship, and continuous improvement across a facility dedicated to extruded and agglomerated food products. You will formulate both tactical execution plans and long-term strategic roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader corporate growth objectives while maintaining rigorous compliance across all operational standards.

What You’ll Do

  • Direct daily manufacturing activities across multiple plant groups to guarantee seamless output, operational discipline, and reliable customer fulfillment.

  • Formulate and execute site-level strategies aligned with overarching business targets for production efficiency, financial cost control, and service delivery.

  • Spearhead both strategic oversight and hands-on leadership across diverse plant departments to maintain safe, efficient, and fully compliant workflows.

  • Implement standardized operating procedures, robust performance metrics, and governance structures throughout the facility.

  • Optimize throughput, asset utilization, and production yields to consistently satisfy customer demand.

  • Cultivate a proactive safety ecosystem enforcing Occupational Safety And Health Administration guidelines, Environmental Protection Agency mandates, and process safety management protocols.

  • Direct environmental stewardship initiatives encompassing dust control, waste management, materials handling, and hazardous process safety programs.

  • Spearhead internal audits, facility inspections, and corrective action workflows associated with regulatory, safety, and quality standards.

  • Mentor site leadership teams through targeted coaching, structured performance management, and comprehensive succession planning.

  • Foster cross-functional collaboration connecting Operations, Environmental Health And Safety, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Human Resources.

  • Oversee asset reliability through advanced preventive and predictive maintenance strategies alongside effective spare parts management.

  • Collaborate with Engineering teams to execute plant upgrades, facility expansions, debottlenecking, and automation implementations.

  • Champion Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence initiatives to drive continuous improvement and systematic standardization.

  • Implement cost-reduction strategies and productivity enhancements that protect uncompromising quality and safety standards.

  • Support high-level corporate initiatives including new product introductions and major plant expansion projects.

What You Bring

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Food Science, Manufacturing, or a related discipline

  • 6-12+ Years Of Progressive Manufacturing Or Processing Leadership Experience within the food manufacturing sector

  • Demonstrated track record leading heavily regulated food production environments with rigorous safety frameworks

  • Proven expertise managing complex, multi-department manufacturing operations

  • Comprehensive working knowledge of Food Safety, Quality Systems, Nutrient Production, and Regulatory Compliance

  • Exceptional financial acumen with demonstrated success in cost management and operational budgeting

  • Extensive familiarity with asset-intensive operations, research and development production coordination, and reliability-focused maintenance

  • Advanced leadership, communication, and Change Management competencies

Compensation & Total Rewards

Annual salary ranging from $150,000 to $180,000 with potential for bonus, full-time direct hire employment, and relocation assistance negotiable for the right candidate.

Joining StaffRight Associates

When you partner with StaffRight Associates in your search for your next role, you’re doing more than pursuing a job, you’re aligning yourself with a team of experts committed to placing top-tier talent in truly impactful positions. We take pride in fostering professional growth and connecting forward-thinking individuals with organizations that value innovation and excellence. We look forward to showcasing your expertise in a way that resonates with our clients and opens the door to meaningful opportunities.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 90939179
  • Position Id: NOOJ - 48165-01
  • Posted 5 days ago

Company Info

About StaffRight Associates, LLC

StaffRight Associates is a premier recruitment and staffing partner that provides talent to a broad and diverse range of corporate disciplines. StaffRight was crafted out of an industry need to better manage the processes and complexities of today’s recruitment and staffing demands. With company beginnings formulated in the industry over 30 years ago, our founder realized that there was a definitive need to utilize recruitment and staffing more efficiently and effectively than what has been the typical industry standard model. StaffRight is dedicated to servicing our clients with a comprehensive, scientific approach of refining the process throughout our clients' engagements.  

Understanding and committing to our employees is critical to the growth and sustainability of StaffRight. We are of the opinion that regardless of their expertise, a successful company needs great people. The success of an employee is realized in a variety of different ways, but for us, we go well beyond one's credentials and interview. Finding the best employees who possess the needed skills, experience, and education are certainly key in a hire, but to truly find great employees who feel they are an integral part of the company, it takes tremendous insight in understanding what makes someone successful. Passion for one’s work, commitment to excellence, and having a ‘get it done’ attitude are essential for a great employee. Having these qualities also goes a long way in ensuring that an employee always has the client's best interests in mind. Great employees are passionate about their work and the company where they hang their jacket. Additionally, we believe that having refined and solid communication skills is also paramount in enabling all employees to work together towards the common goals and successes of the company. This collaboration is very much based on our employees' ability to listen to others and respond effectively, both internally with each other, and externally to our clients. 

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