Job description

Career Position: Meat Processing Plant Director

Job Type

Full Time

Stittsworth Meats, based in beautiful Bemidji, MN is seeking a Meat Processing Plant Director. Bemidji, MN is the ideal place to raise a family and enjoy a productive career with a family-owned business. You’ll be working alongside Mychal Stittsworth, CEO. Mychal is a 4th generation owner. They just built their new plant just 3 years ago and are now experiencing exciting growth. Stittsworth is making their sausage and jerky products the same way “Grandpa Jipe” made them in 1940. That means no fillers, no antibiotics, whole muscle meat. Our ingredients: meat and seasoning, that’s it. The production plant is focused on sausage, jerky and chicken breast products. Stittsworth has more Facebook followers per dollar of product sold than any other meat company in the USA. This has been achieved with organic growth over the past 5 years, mostly as a result of the popularity of their “Smokehouse Store” in Bemidji. As more and more find out about Stittsworth Meats, they continue to demand it. Once you taste a Stittsworth product, you’ll see why the following is huge and growing! They are selling in all CUB stores, most all Hy-Vees in the MN market and all the Lund’s and Byerly’s stores and many more smaller chains via their distributor partners in MN. This position presents an exciting opportunity to grow with the company and brand!

The Plant Director is responsible for overall plant operations and maintenance. This includes ensuring production of a consistent, quality product on a safe, efficient and timely basis. He or she is also responsible for maximizing profit while monitoring inventories, controlling cost, ensuring stability and growth within the company and achieving or exceeding personal and business goals. The operational responsibility currently is a small number of team members running just one shift (7:30-4:30 M-F) of production with-off shift Sanitation and Maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Direct and coordinate plant operations within company policies and procedures
• Manage the facility's safety initiatives, which includes cleanliness and sanitation
• Establishment and direction of local facility policies and procedures
• Facility production goals and key performance indicators, such as giveaway, yields, labor, and floor loss
• Establish and maintain positive employee relations and community relations
• Foster and develop a trained and motivated staff
• Confer with department heads to ensure coordination of purchasing, production, and shipping
• Select, develop and retain facility supervision, administrative professionals and non-exempt staff
• Conduct employee performance reviews and implement appropriate development plans
• Schedule and conduct regular plant meetings
• Attend scheduled corporate training and meetings

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Appropriate work experience. College degree not necessary, but valuable
• 3-5 years at a Manager, Superintendent or similar level with multiple Supervisors reporting to the position is desired
• Experience with responsibility for budgeting and operating budget execution
• 2-3 years in a Managerial (or equivalent role)
• Experience with significant responsibility for working with Quality Assurance (or Control), Accounting, Scheduling and Human Resources
• Previous successful leadership of 1 or more projects relating to purchase and installation of capital equipment
• Previous successful leadership of 1 or more projects relating to improvement of quality, yield, productivity, safety or expense reduction
• Demonstrated leadership of improvement in at least 3 of these performance measures:

• Product quality
• Product yield (or scrap reduction)
• Labor productivity
• SQF Oversight/Audit Plans
• Plant safety
• Expense reduction
• Track record of increasing position responsibility over the span of his/her career
• Leadership of operations at a plant or major process level
• Public speaking / presentation skills
• Oral and written communication accuracy
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to utilize MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Desired Requirements:

• Currently at a Plant Manager level or above
• Experiences shown above in the food industry
• Experience working in a facility certified under the Global Food Safety Initiative such as SQF(Safe Quality Food) or BRC (British Retail Consortium)
• Degree with close application to position requirements such as Engineering, Food Science, Chemistry, Accounting, Management or Quality.
• Equivalent work experience or college degree
• Track record of leading improvements over a wider breadth than noted above
• Leadership of multiple capital and process improvement projects
• Formal experience and training in team management

Additional Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Stittsworth Meats is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Disclaimer:
This job description is intended to generally describe the nature and level of work to be performed by employees in this position. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and skills required of employees performing this role.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bemidji, MN 56601: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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