Plant Manager

Are you an experienced Plant Manager in food or feed? Is change management, operational excellence and people management familiar to you? Would you like to run a production plant in the Benelux? Then Trouw Nutrition is looking for you_

**What are you going to do?**

The Plant Manager is a member of the operations team and has prime responsibility for the production plant located in Ghent (Belgium). He/she is responsible for managing all operational/production activities in order to ensure the production process in the most safe, cost effective and efficient way, while meeting all quality standards and sales commitments.

He/she integrates production operations and processes over multiple shifts, with a focus on establishing short
- and mid-term activities directed toward production continuity and balance, such as creating shift schedules, ensuring requisition of materials and equipment maintenance and repair.

The Plant Manager coordinates and integrates with other Operations functional areas such as Supply Chain (Planning, Customer Services, Logistics & Warehousing etc.) and required other areas (IT, HR etc.) to ensure support in attaining output, productivity, and quality. As a managerial role, the focus is also on people management: selecting, organizing, training, and motivating the production staff to ensure consistent attainment of production schedules at optimum productivity and cost levels.

The Plant Manager reports to the BeneluxScan & France Supply Chain & Operations Manager.

**What are your key accountabilities?**
- ** Production Planning and Execution**:

- Manages the (operational) activities in the plant, within the applicable Nutreco standards and procedures, in order to achieve an efficient and effective execution and delivery of results;
- Coordinates production operations within a single plant that uses common production equipment, methods, and standards over multiple shifts;
- Directs unit supervisors in establishing and maintaining production schedules within established procedures and budgets.
- ** Maintenance and repair (M&R)**:

- Oversees the mid and long term maintenance planning for the assigned area, including budgets;
- Ensures that all maintenance activities (planned maintenance programmes, shut-downs, or emergency repairs) are planned and prioritized in order to prevent / rectify break-downs and malfunctions and minimize business disruptions;
- Ensures that all maintenance activities with regard to malfunctions, maintenance, repairs and modifications, are performed in such a way that the work can be performed in an efficient and safe manner and the production department(s) encounter mínimal nuisance and / or stagnation, balancing the need for continuous production and stops / shutdowns due to (planned and unplanned) maintenance.
- ** Leadership and people management**:

- Provides leadership to his / her area in production and M&R (i.e. setting individual objectives, reviewing performance and providing ongoing feedback on a(n) (in)formal basis) so that all reports are aware of what they are required to achieve and how they are performing against their objectives;
- Manages and coaches a team of professionals, motivates employees through sincere and concrete feedback and take appropriate action when needed, stimulate team cooperation and mobility and ensure that managers and staff are deployable (quantitatively and qualitatively) and willing to and capable of realizing the set objectives.
- ** Reporting**:

- Develops and/or monitors the relevant KPI’s to maintain an insight in the performance of the OpCo in the assigned area against the set targets, and to make recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness;
- Monitors established performance indicators, including variance reports, production reports, quality reports, and injury reports.
- ** Quality /HSE Compliance**:

- Assures that all activities and operations are executed in line with HSE / Quality rules, regulations, procedures, instructions, guidelines, and promotes awareness thereof, including addressing anomalies to others;
- Ensures compliance with safety rules and regulations to minimize industrial injuries and meet regulatory requirements.
- ** Continuous improvement**:

- Identifies and implements improvements to the OpCo's systems, processes and practices in order to improve/optimize effectiveness and efficiency of the processes;
- In time will implement Operational Excellence way-of-working as per company roll-out program (using ‘’standard’’ operational excellence tools).

**What we offer**

As a Nutreco company, Trouw Nutrition’s mission is to feed the future. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner. Working for Nutreco means a fantastic position in an international working environment with lots of development opportunities.

**What else is in it for you?**
- We will offer you a fullti