Job Description

The Plant Manager oversees and leads the plant operations. This includes Production, Maintenance, Sanitation, Receiving, Quality Control, Human Resources, and Shipping Departments, ensuring adherence to established good manufacturing practices. They drive the production of high-quality products that meet or surpass customer and company standards in a safe environment, while maintaining costs, efficiencies, and volume targets at or above budgeted levels. Their specific duties include the following:

• Directs the coordination of all manufacturing departments’ functions to ensure compliance with Company objectives, Quality Systems, and Customer Satisfaction.
• Assists in establishing quality specifications and ensures all plant employees meet them.
• Promotes plant safety through education of employees, directing safety committee, creation of safety programs and incentive.
• Services sales at 100% service goal.
• Establishes, maintains, and strives to improve productivity standards.
• Prepares annual manufacturing budget.
• Analyzes costs of plant improvements.
• Actively participates in preparing the plant’s strategic operating plan.
• Serves as communication conduit between upper management and plant.
• Executes projects as directed by Vice-President of Manufacturing.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies.
• Provides suggestions to improve process, procedures, and department in support of company goals.
• Verifies GMP’s and Safety standards.
• Ensures compliance with the HACCP program and AIB gold standard.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related field and two years of experience in the job offered or a supervisory role in a manufacturing environment. Requires two years of experience in the following:

1. Budgeting, cost control, and financial analysis.
2. Manufacturing and production processes, including equipment operation, maintenance, and optimization.
3. Strategic management including initiatives to optimize operations and enhance long term performance.
4. Conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
5. Risk management including the identification, assessment and mitigation of risks associated with operations and implementing effective risk management strategies.
6. Implementing organizational development processes to foster continuous improvement and enhance operational efficiency.

Gruma Corporation and its affiliates, including but not limited to Azteca Milling, L.P., are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. The information collected by this application is solely for the purposes of determining suitability for employment, verifying your identity, and maintaining employment statistics on applicants. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as state and local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity with-out imposing undue hardship on Gruma. Please inform the company's personnel representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process. #LI-DNI