Production Sr Manager

EH&S / Maintenance, Engineering & Reliability Leadership:

• Partners with the Site leader to drive a strong personal safety, process safety, and environmental improvement plan to achieve EH&S goals and ensure compliance with regulatory and permit requirements.
• Relentlessly pursues maximum plant reliability to reduce department unplanned events and support safe operations. Teaches and encourages behaviors to support reliable operations.
• Knows and advocates Life Saving Principles within the facility. Demonstrates priority and commitment through personal behavior and coaching in the field. Provides the needed positive and negative reinforcement to address deviations with urgency, and ensures appropriate follow up and investigations.
• Ensures appropriate technical review of work plans (maintenance or improvement) such that H&S risks and Environmental aspects are addressed appropriately for the job.
• Partners with Site Leader to ensure capital is allocated appropriately to design out industrial hygiene hazards, improve environmental compliance & sustainability, and reduce personal/process safety hazards. Implements administrative controls and process controls for safe and reliable operation.
• Shows courageous leadership by coaching, asking questions, and intervening when needed. Challenges status quo and past norms to make the operation more safe and effective.
• Keeps active field presence and assesses work activities routinely to maintain awareness of plant needs and understanding of personnel behaviors.
• Ensures the operation team is fully prepared for immediate response situations, including where technical resources might be needed to analyze process conditions and guide the response.

  People/Organizational Effectiveness:

• Supports Site Leader to provide motivation, explanation, context, and communication purpose of messages to the empowered organization.
• Inspires and motivates the organization through leadership and strong connection with the team fostering an empowered organization. Shows appreciation for employees and maintains a servant leadership mindset.
• Accountable for maintaining and improving the expertise index for production personnel, ensuring that appropriate knowledge remains within the facility.
• Works closely with Human Resources as needed to hire operators with strong skill sets. Ensures operators are on-boarded and trained via a comprehensive plant training program to maximize their opportunity for success and increase plant expertise.
• Models IFF's core values and behaviors and understands that his/her behavior shapes the operation team's culture.
• Develops operation employees and ensures career success via goal-setting, performance management, promotion processes, and employee development plan.
• Resolves operation discipline issues and escalates to proper channels where needed.
• Enhances the working relationship with operation team, collaborates with work force, and supports Labor contractual agreements if applicable.
• Coaches both Staff and Tech/Tech roles within the plant to be effective within their roles.

• Business Owner Mindset/Financial Acumen/Continuous Improvement:

• Knows the business model and strategy for facility. Explains to operations how the plant fits into the business and corporation.
• Understands how much money the plant makes each day along with product margins, and takes actions as needed partnering with the Site Leader and business to maximize total margin and EBITDA. Is flexible and assists the Site Leader in dealing with changing conditions.
• Continuously works to improve the total cost of production (raw material, conversion cost and activity rate, etc.). May take a leadership role in maintaining the budget as delegated by the Site Leader.
• Develops financial acumen skills across the organization (operators, engineers, maintenance, etc.) to accelerate profitability and productivity.

  Business Owner Mindset/Financial Acumen/Continuous Improvement:

• Holds themselves and others accountable for return on investment of projects, and ensures compliance with financial reporting rules/practices within the facility.
• Supports and drives continuous improvement by being active and ensuring operations participation in opportunity analysis sessions and plant improvements.
• Partners with improvement teams to reach agreement on proposed improvement plans, and ensures plant resources are available to achieve the plan. Ensures controls are implemented in operating discipline and process control as applicable to sustain improvements.
• Develops strong partnerships with support functions such as EHS, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and others to drive improvement in the organization and assure alignment.
• Partners with the Site Leader to steward employee health through practices associated with a Healthy Workplace and employee fitness for duty.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more