Plant Manager, Lafayette South

About Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet.

We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

The Lafayette Plant Manager position provides the overall strategic leadership and expertise to ensure success in operating the plant safely and efficiently while being a good steward of the environment and generating quality finished goods that exceed customer expectations. The Plant Manager has overall responsibility for the Lafayette site to ensure standards for Environmental, Health, Safety, Quality, Food Quality, and Security are continually met or exceeded.

The Plant Manager will oversee the entire manufacturing process across the Lafayette plant, from sourcing raw materials to shipping finished products to customers. This person will be accountable for implementing best practices to improve the plant from safety, environmental and operational processes.

• Reports to:
  
  Vice President of Wet Mill Operations
• Oversee 7 direct reports, managing the site-specific departments: HS, Environmental, Quality, Operations, Maintenance, Technical.
• This position works closely with corporate functions such as Finance, Human Resources, Production Planning, Engineering, and Procurement to ensure success of operations.

• Responsible for growing a world class safety and environmental culture ensuring continuous improvement through dialogue, actions and implementation of successful initiatives.
• Ensure full compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, initiatives and procedures.
• Ensure all environmental permit limits are being met. Report deviations and expedite any repairs needed to return systems to permit limits. Collaborate across network environmental counsels.

• Partner with site Human Resource Business Partner to outline talent and workforce strategy for the site to drive development, retention, engagement, and inclusion and diversity.
• Direct change management through proper communication, dissemination of critical information and overall education of the team on critical plant information.
• Aspire a culture aligned with our Primient core values: safety, integrity, excellence and growth as well as our guiding principles.

• Lead Quality performance for the site. Assure all finished products are shipped within their final product quality specifications and are safe for general public use.

• Meet outlined performance targets for throughput, productivity, capital implementation and cost.
• Assure all plant production plans are met. Report and correct deviations.
• Execution of capital expenditure plan improves safety, environmental, maintenance, operations, cost, ingredient usage, and are on budget and time.
• Determine KPIs and measure them on a regular basis.
• Decisive mindset, taking ownership of work to deliver with speed and accuracy.

• Drive improvement through cost effective systems centered around capital, operating expenditures, staffing, wages and salaries.
• Assure plant budgets are met. Report and correct deviations.

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with all levels and categories of stakeholders. This includes internal team members and the Primient network.
• Maintain sharp focus on customers and other…