The Plant Manager is responsible for overall performance of the manufacturing site, including safety, quality, service, cost, people, and culture. This role owns the site P&L and provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure reliable execution today while building the capabilities required for future growth.
The Plant Manager leads through an operating model, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver business results, develop leaders, and embed continuous improvement and safety as core ways of working.
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
Site Leadership & Business Ownership
- Lead the Site Leadership Team to operate as a unified, accountable leadership system and the entire workforce to maximize productivity and job satisfaction. Leads by organizational operating principles, ultimately defining the culture and level of engagement at the plant location.
- Own full site P&L, including cost, service, and productivity performance.
- Establish site vision, priorities, and goals aligned to enterprise strategies.
- Represent the site to corporate leadership and external stakeholders.
Safety, Quality & Compliance
- Create and sustain a zero-injury culture; ensure compliance with all safety, health, and environmental regulations.
- Serve as the site’s senior leader accountable for food safety, quality systems, and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure audit readiness and strong relationships with customers, auditors, and regulators.
Operations & Reliability
- Ensure safe, predictable, and reliable operations across all value streams and warehousing.
- Partner with Maintenance and Engineering to drive asset reliability and capital planning.
- Oversee production planning, scheduling adherence, and inventory management in partnership with Supply Chain.
- Drive improvements in OEE, uptime, and throughput.
People, Culture & Capability
- Build a high-performance culture rooted in Marzetti Growth Behaviors and an Owner Mindset.
- Develop and coach plant leaders.
- Ensure strong succession planning and leadership pipeline across the site.
- Partner with HR to drive engagement, capability building, and workforce planning.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Champion CI, and operational excellence principles across the site.
- Lead and sponsor breakthrough improvements to processes, technology, and operating models.
- Leverage benchmarking and best practices to keep the site competitive and innovative.
Cross-Functional & Enterprise Collaboration
- Partner with QA, Planning, HR, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, and R&D teams.
- Align site priorities with broader supply chain, customer, and enterprise needs.
- Participate in cross-site and enterprise initiatives to drive network performance.
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Qualifications
- Progressive manufacturing leadership experience; food or beverage manufacturing preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, or related field required or equivalent experience; MBA preferred.
- Proven success leading multiple value streams or functions.
- Strong financial acumen with full P&L responsibility.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through change while delivering results through operational metrics.