Plant Manager

W ho are we :

We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement. Leidy's is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wenger Group since 2022. Leidy's is a 130-year-old pork company still located on the family farm in Pennsylvania, where Jacob Leidy was deeded the original land grant by William Penn in 1753.

We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 1000 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!

Learn more here :   https : / / www.thewengergroup.com

Basic Purpose

Oversees all daily operations of plant production and may include Maintenance & Quality departments. Keeps production at maximum capacity while working within financial controls. Ensures all required quality and regulatory standards are met. Develops processes for maximizing safety, quality, productivity, and stewardship. May provide oversight to several plant level functions such as accounting, maintenance, distribution, and administration. Manages a departmental function within a broader corporate function. Develops major goals to support broad functional objectives. Approves policies developed within various sub-functions and departments. Comprehensive knowledge of the overall departmental function.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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Develop best practices for business process improvements.

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Design, develop and implement business processes to achieve organization goals.

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Track and communicate status of business initiative projects to management.

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Assist in budget planning, resource allocation, and schedule to implement process improvements.

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Plan, implement and monitor business process changes for projects.

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Assist in making business decisions relating to system implementation, modification, maintenance, etc.

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Develop and maintain business process documentation that will be used as reference for preparing test cases, training documents, etc.

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Provide leadership to create an environment committed to product quality, food safety, team member safety, and positive team member relations.

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Update business processes to meet changing business needs.

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Present analyses, solutions and business cases to senior management.

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Coordinate with cross-functional team to develop business process requirements.

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Develop initiatives for continuous business process improvements.

Ensure a safe work environment and that all safety hazards are properly addressed.

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Ensure compliance with GMP, SOP, HACCP, USDA, EEO, OSHA and other applicable laws and standards.

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Maintain current in-depth knowledge of trends and developments in the poultry industry.

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Perform other comparable and related duties, as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage 3-6 directly, and approximately 350 hourly team members.  Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems; timekeeping.

Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science or Business, or equivalent in experience

Minimum of 7 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry preferably meat manufacturing, including at least 5 years in management, with a demonstrated track record of accomplishments

Demonstrated ability to work well with and guide other people effectively, and to positively influence the attitude and performance of others.

Considerable attention to detail and uncompromised concern for quality and food safety

Strong mathematical and written and oral communications skills

Well-organized and self-directed

Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel

HACCP Certified

Physical Demands

Work Environment

What our benefits are

For all full-time members :

Each team member has the potential to earn a yearly bonus based on the achievement of company goals.

The Wenger Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal, state or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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