Department Manager
Hostess Brands, LLC

Your Opportunity as Production Manager

Location: Columbus, GA plant

Work Arrangements: 100% Onsite

In this role you will:

• Responsible for leading an operations department to support the Hostess business
• Develop capability and leadership characteristics in Production Supervisors, Process Engineers, Controls Leader, and Advanced Technical Leadership
• Responsible for meeting Quality, Safety, Reliability, and Cost targets for plant operations
• Ability to work with all plant functions in order to ensure all production needs are met
• Coordinate activities to increase Autonomous Maintenance knowledge throughout the plant, utilizing Autonomous Maintenance to improve Operations measures
• Lead and teach complete understanding of overall plant product flow including all inputs and outputs
• Managing and leveraging relationships with R&D and corporate engineering
• 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
• Always manage with Basic Beliefs as a foundation and preserves Smucker culture
• Executes effective communication to all levels of the organization

The Right Place 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree is required; an engineering or technical degree is preferred

• At least 3-5 years of manufacturing operational experience managing people and teams
• Priority setting and Problem solving: Demonstrate 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
• Experience in a high-performance work environment
• 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

Learn more about working at Smucker:

• Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
• Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
• Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity

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