Job Description
Your Opportunity as a Department Manager
The Department Manager is responsible for day-to-day direction and oversight for the manufacturing of the Consumer Department products and teams. This individual will organize and lead production to ensure that products are produced safely, consistently, and efficiently to specified quality and operational standards to be shipped to customers on-time. The Department Manager will lead the team to implement best practices and standards to continue to improve and manage to KPI's.
Location: Orrville, OH (Smucker Manufacturing Plant)
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site. Primarily Day Shift with periodic availability on nights and weekends.
In this Role You Will:
Be responsible for leading an operations department to support the business
Develop capability and leadership characteristics in Area Leaders, Process Engineers, and Advanced Technical Leadership
Be responsible for meeting Quality, Safety, Reliability, and Cost targets for plant operations
Work with all plant functions to ensure all production needs are met
Partnering with the Operations Excellence Manager and associated Ops Ex Pillar Owners, drive results in system creation/implementation in your department and across the site
Lead and teach complete understanding of overall plant product flow including all inputs and outputs
Manage and leverage relationships with departments outside the plant including R&D, Technical Services, IS, Finance, Marketing, Project Management, and Integrated Business Planning
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
Set plant direction by contributing to the Plant Leadership team
Administer any necessary discipline
Manage with Basic Beliefs as a foundation and preserves Smucker culture
Execute effective communication to all levels of the organization
The Right Role for You
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:
Minimum Requirements:
A bachelor's degree is required; an engineering or technical degree is preferred
At least 5 years of manufacturing operational experience managing people and teams
Experience in a high-performance work environment
Priority setting and Problem solving: Demonstrated ability to be decisive, proactive, and strategic in decision making
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
Food processing or manufacturing experience
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
Must be willing to travel at least 10% and be available after hours/weekends
Work Environment: This job operates in a manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be high.
Physical Demands:
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.
Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently.
May push and pull heavy items.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
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The J. M. Smucker Company (the “Company”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No person will be discriminated against in hiring or in any other aspect of their employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran/military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
