Head of US Manufacturing Operations

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Operational Leadership

• • Directs production operations across 2 owned and multiple tolled cleaning and treating sites, ensuring consistent, high-quality output and on-time delivery.
  • Develops manufacturing, treating, and warehousing plans along with resource allocation and employee schedules to allow efficient treating and packaging across the network in collaboration with sales and logistics ensuring a high-quality customer experience.

Strategic Planning

• • Develops and executes long-term production strategies that align with company goals and corporate strategy.
  • Development and execution of long term facilities plan to efficiently deliver best cost, highest quality product on time and in full to plan delivered from sales and marketing
  • Strategic people resource planning ensuring resourcing utilized to y deliver through changing market conditions

Financial Accountability

• • Manages operational budgets, capital expenditures (CAPEX), and P&L for manufacturing projects.
  • Resource allocation for employee salaries, plant and company asset maintenance.
  • Manage supplier relationships, performance and contract negotiations.

Performance Management (KPIs)

• • Monitors and reports on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as efficiency, quality, safety, waste, and cost across all sites.
  • Champions and leads implementation around production portions of sales and operational planning and execution processes to ensure on time delivery of quality product.

Standardization & Lean Manufacturing

• • Implements standardized processes, procedures, and best practices across facilities to drive efficiency and reduce waste.
  • Optimize processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance service levels.

Safety & Compliance

• • Champions a safety-first culture and ensures compliance with environmental, health, safety (EHS), and quality standards.

Team Development

• • Coaches, mentors, and develops managers and local teams, fostering a culture of accountability and building current and future leaders to allow for cross organization development to ensure best in class workforce across RiceTec

EDUCATION

• • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, manufacturing, operations management, agriculture or a related field.

EXPERIENCE

• • 7+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, with proven experience in multi-site management.
  • Leadership skills: Proven ability to lead, influence, and manage large, dispersed teams.
  • Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of lean manufacturing principles, and ERP systems.

WORK, COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• • Strong analytical, problem-solving and leadership skills
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Proficient in computer applications, including SAP and Microsoft Office.
  • Strong organizational and record-keeping skills to ensure accuracy and compliance.
  • Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Distance vision, Peripheral vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to extreme heat (non-weather). The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

RiceTec, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing qualified applicants consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable federal or state-protected classification.