Plant Manager

**Position Title**:Plant Manager

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**: Springs

**Grade**: D5

**Requisition ID**: 20807

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**:
This role is responsible for the direction of a large team with multiple disciplines (maintenance, operations, safety and warehousing) with an understanding of external factors affecting the business. He/she contributes to strategy, delegation and collaboration with other functions as well as turning functional plans into business effectiveness and sustainability.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Lead operations to ensure the safety of the people and assets
- Create an environment that embraces diversity, equality and inclusion
- Manage a highly unionized workforce and union relationships
- Create a winning culture by creating, implementing and communicating the vision of the plant
- Create an environment that promotes change for continuous improvement and competitive advantage
- Build and manage a budget, continuously providing accurate forecast estimates while balancing financial results with other key performance results and managing cost reduction plans
- Translate customer requirements and expectations and align with key stakeholders
- Manage cost of quality through specifications and raw material optimization
- Maximize plant performance by leveraging plant manufacturing technologies and processing best practices
- Identify the correlation between manufacturing data, standard operating practices and financial results
- Integrate and embed the continuous improvement culture
- Align teams behind the regional priorities and ensure execution business priorities
- Manage the plant’s sustainability projects
- Develop relationships with both the civil and regulatory communities in which the Plant resides

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Bachelor’s degree in food science / financial or operational management / Engineering
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in FMCG in a plant manufacturing facility
- A minimum of 5 years in a senior leadership role in manufacturing
- Strong financial acumen
- Experience in Production, Quality & Warehouse Management
- Good reporting and analytical skills
- Experience in project management
- Experience in CAPEX project management and implementation
- A leadership development certificate and Financial management certificate
- McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger._
- McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs._
- The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country._
- Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the _Global Privacy Policy_

**Job Family**:Manufacturing
**Division**:South Africa
**Department**:Springs Plant
**Location(s)**: ZA - South Africa : Gauteng : Springs

**Company**:McCain Foods (S Africa)