Plant Manager

Essential Functions: (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs)

• Leads daily operations for the Alaska Naturals facility, including production, technical processes, maintenance coordination, quality, safety, staffing, and site administration.
• Assumes accountability for plant financial performance, including budget development, cost control, labor and material utilization, yield, inventory, capital priorities, and achievement of operating targets.
• Sets the site’s operating strategy and translates business priorities into clear short- and long-term goals, production plans, technical priorities, and accountability measures.
• Builds and sustains a strong safety culture and ensures compliance with the Trident Safety Program and applicable environmental, occupational safety, and process-safety requirements.
• Ensures the facility operates in compliance with applicable food safety, product quality, environmental, labeling, and regulatory requirements for fish oil and nutritional-product manufacturing.
• Provides direction and support to a small technical team, effectively leveraging specialized expertise while maintaining clear ownership, disciplined decision-making, cross-training, and continuity of critical knowledge.
• Partners with quality, engineering, maintenance, procurement, planning, logistics, commercial, and other cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensure the reliable flow of raw materials and finished products.
• Directs the production plan and adjusts labor, equipment, materials, scheduling, and technical resources to improve safety, quality, service, throughput, yield, uptime, and cost performance.
• Monitors plant performance through meaningful operating metrics, identifies root causes and emerging risks, and ensures corrective actions are completed and sustained.
• Manages and develops direct reports by setting clear expectations, assigning work, providing timely coaching and feedback, evaluating performance, supporting development, and making people decisions in partnership with HR.
• Represents Alaska Naturals in operating reviews and communicates site results, risks, resource needs, and recovery plans clearly to business and functional leaders.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full-time employees may be eligible for discretionary/performance-based incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, long-term disability, basic life and AD&D, and 401(k) with a company match, paid time off, 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full-time employees, the initial paid time off benefit starts at 20 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience. Commuter and transit programs are also available.

Trident Seafoods provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.