Plant Director - Lee Kum Kee USA

POSITION SUMMARY

The Plant Director is responsible for the overall management of the manufacturing factory operation in multi-plant facilities in City of Industry, CA, including the ongoing development and implementation of the company’s strategic plan. This position will need to collaboratively work with other management functions, including Sales & Marketing, Finance, HR, Sales & Operation, Procurement, Innovation & Quality, and Warehouse & Logistics, to ensure all key deliverables are met. The Plant Director is accountable for the P&L of the manufacturing plants, product innovation, food safety & quality, and employee health and safety.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Maintain and develop a platform or culture of a result-oriented, quality and safety-focused, customer-driven, teamwork-oriented manufacturing facility with modern management systems.
• Lead the manufacturing team to provide sufficient, consistent, quality products on time to support the double-digit sales growth year over year, achieve the best order fulfillment rate and on-time delivery rate.
• Build a best-in-class manufacturing system, optimize capacity utilization and production flexibility to enable the best cost, services, and quality, and continuously enhance the company’s competitive advantage through product innovation and continuous improvement in lean manufacturing.
• Build and manage a highly motivated, engaged, and skilled high-performing manufacturing team with over several hundred members in multiple locations in a multi-cultural environment.
• Lead the employee safety and health initiatives, build a sound EHS system, ensure safe and healthy work environment for all associates.
• Establish and implement the food safety and quality system and control procedures to ensure consistent product quality. In terms of food safety and quality, a “zero tolerance” policy is supported with all employees and in all areas of the plants.
• Continue focusing on cost reduction, productivity improvement, increasing efficiency, and process system optimization to improve profit margins.
• Lead the engineering and maintenance team, create engineering and maintenance strategy, and implement the preventive maintenance approach to ensure best-in-class engineering support to the plants and facilities.
• Work with the manufacturing, engineering, and materials management teams to maximize manufacturing capacity and flexibility to meet customer demands.
• Seamless interaction and coordination with procurement and quality team to achieve the corporate strategic goal and long/ short term objectives.
• Prepare, implement, and monitor the annual manufacturing budget of CA plants to support the Company objectives.
• Partner with the HR function to develop and implement an integrated talent management system to build, lead, and develop a factory team that complies with local labor regulations and policies.
• Represent the manufacturing plants and their interests in dealing with government agents, industry associations, and key trade players.
• Other duties, responsibilities, and projects may be assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Autopilot Leadership
• Building a high-performing team
• Manufacturing management and operation excellence
• EHS, food safety and quality management
• Engineering management
• Innovation Management
• Problem Solving
• Drive for Results
• Managing & Measuring Work

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting to this role are Production Managers, Engineering Manager, Operation Excellence Manager, and EHS Manager. This position must carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Company’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; career planning for the team and addressing complaints and resolving problems and etc.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

EDUCATION, SKILLS, and EXPERIENCE

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years experience managing a production facility; food manufacturing management experience is highly preferred.
• Training or certification in Lean Manufacturing; 6 Sigma or other relevant training is required. ISO management system training is high preferred.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Bilingual (English and Cantonese/Mandarin or English and Spanish) skill is highly desirable for the position.
• Communicate and present in writing and verbally clearly, accurately, and with impact.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Required to stand, kneel, walk and sit when performing essential job functions.
• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and/or reach with hands and arms.
• Required to climb or balance; stoop, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision ability is required including close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; explosives; risk of radiation; and vibration.

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.