Site Director

Company and Position Information:

Del Monte Foods, Inc. (DMFI) is a multi-national food company headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, with a powerful portfolio of brands, including iconic Del Monte®, Contadina® and College Inn®. Our premium-quality meal ingredients, snacks and beverages can be found in six out of ten U.S. households.

At Del Monte Foods, we believe in supporting one another. In helping our people shape their own careers - in letting them grow outward, upward and across disciplines. We are tending to the greater good, providing accessible, nourishing, great-tasting food for all. We are Del Monte Foods – Growers of Good.

The salary range for this role is:

Responsibilities:

The Site Director is responsible for all daily manufacturing operations including production, maintenance, quality, warehouse, logistics, planning, and other production-related activities. This is a hands-on position that is responsible for the development of policies and procedures designed to increase productivity and assure quality. It is the responsibility of the Site Director to ensure production meets output and at desired quality for the lowest possible cost working within the standards of corporate, state, and federal policy. The Site Director will direct, coach and mentor staff to devise methods to use the plant's personnel and capital resources to best meet production goals in addition to coming up with new ways to make the production process more efficient utilizing Lean Manufacturing (DMPS) techniques. Budgetary responsibility includes oversight of the facility’s processes and activities to achieve KPI’s across multiple categories including labor, waste, quality, costs, efficiencies, safety, etc. Performance will be managed by the following critical metrics: employee retention and turnover, reduced total recordable injury rates, key certifications in food safety and quality, packaging fill rates and on time delivery, lower conversion cost year over year, asset reliability, and successful retention of improved yields.

Management

• Provide overall leadership and direction to plant managerial and hourly staff in all aspects of the production operation including raw product production, warehousing label and shipping operations, maintenance, capital projects and continuous improvement.
• Anticipate trends in organization’s market trends, raw material purchasing price fluctuations, community factors, or associate cultural factors which may influence operating activities.
• Contributes to achieving the food production objectives through coordinating workflow and product quality.
• Monitor departmental performance against goals to ensure that progress is being made, and that corrective action is taken if necessary.
• Anticipate and provide direction on future capital projects and equipment needs.
• Maintain effective community and government relations to assure the early identification of potential problems and maintain Del Monte's image in the community.
• Understand and deliver customer requirements at level >98% OTIF (On time item fill)

Safety

• Ensure a safe work environment by ensuring safe work behaviors, safe work conditions and, corrects any deficiencies in a timely manner.
• Through subordinates, supervisors and managers, assures employee engagement, safety, quality, customer service, cost, and production objectives are met or exceeded.
• Monitor building security and maintain good housekeeping
• Provide training avenues to employees as needed leveraging Safety, SOP’s, and user manuals.
• Drive behavioral based safety program to change current culture and results.

Operations

• Takes complete ownership and accountability for overall plant operations with a desire to win.
• Lead quality and continuous improvement initiatives in support of operations. Take leadership role by training and implementing continuous improvement efforts within the team.
• Management of warehousing operations, including labeling and shipping to meet planned AOP costs, quality standards, and timeliness of shipping.
• Implement quality tools such as SPC, “best practices”, and SOP’s.
• Implement ‘lean principles’ on the floor and execute a site master plan in line with service and COGS.
• Identify quality issues and develop solutions to maximize first-time quality and minimize waste.
• Work with operators and vendors to improve raw and packaging materials performance.
• Responsible for achievement of department efficiency goals, and standards.
• Ensure maintenance and production, track downtime and develop and implement plans with operators and mechanics to improve line performance.
• Ensure that the facility operates with corporate and governmental guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with all quality and food safety requirements to protect customers, consumers; including all state and federal regulations.
• Monitor key performance indicators to assess labor and variance to budget, productivity, and schedule adherence.
• Available to address issues as they arise in operating activities.

People

• Provide leadership, guidance, and training to employees by developing and implementing plans to improve abilities.
• Directly support the development of internal talent in preparation for future advancement and promotional opportunities.
• Coach, motivate, train and effectively manage the performance of plant managerial and support personnel.
• Ensure efficient use of resources to maximize labor savings.
• Develop skills in the operations group to build quality into the production process.
• Work closely with quality manager to review product consistency in order to determine areas of improvement,
• Work closely with Human Resources Manager in implementing and adhering all employees to policies and processes.
• Responsible for enforcing consistent, fair and inclusive employment practices, legal and corporate compliance, as well as behaviors reflective of the company's commitment to diversity.
• Lead direct reports and partner with indirect functional staff, e.g. finance, continuous improvement and human resources to implement policies and procedures.

Core Values:

• Mission first: You believe that the first priority should be advancing the mission of the organization.
• Dedication to learning: You are open to and create a culture of honest, direct, regular, compassionate feedback and dedicated to fostering a culture of learning.
• Commitment to diversity: You have a deep commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive team, demonstrated through such things investing heavily in recruiting people from a wide range of backgrounds, removing unconscious bias in interviews, and ensuring staff can bring their full selves to work.

Attributes

• Energetic, Aspirational and Driven: Must be an outstanding, inspirational leader with the ability to set high but reachable goals, clearly communicate those goals to employees, and then infuse the team with a sense of purpose and urgency in attainment of those goals. Bright, engaging, and driven with ‘start up’ energy and passion.
• A Great Coach, Mentor, and Team Builder: A dynamic leader with a proven ability to mentor direct reports and can subsequently build and manage a continuously growing/evolving team. Builds an environment where top talent wants to work. Seeks out and grows emerging talent. A secure and humble leader who surrounds themselves with strongest professionals – hires people who are smarter than him/herself.
• An Excellent Communicator: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with all kinds of people at all levels inside and outside the organization. Ability to work through conflict, gain trust, and persuasively influence outcomes. This leader will have CEO and Executive Team visibility and needs to build and foster relationships of accountability, execution and reliability.
• Gets Things Done with an Eye to the Future: Ability to address tactical issues in the short-term while maintaining strategic vision for the long term.

Del Monte Foods Leadership Behaviors:

As leaders we:

Ground Our Teams

• Connect our teams to a clear strategy.

• Provide the support our teams need for success.

• Hold ourselves and our teams accountable.

Create the Climate

• Solve problems together with our teams.

• Enable smart risk taking.

• Empower our teams to make decisions and take action.

Nurture the Good

• Are intentional about building trust.

• Lead with empathy.

• Grow and develop our teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree Engineering, Food Science or related business field.
• Minimum 7-10 years’ leadership level experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Preferred: 2 plus years of management experience in the food manufacturing industry
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and create strategies that significantly improve practices that enable the organization to achieve business and technical results.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership skills at all levels, and competence in making timely, effective, principles-based decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility and confidence with a wide variety of leaders including internal stakeholders, customers and vendors and be seen as a trusted adviser.
• Experience with manpower planning, recruiting and budgeting/forecasting.
• Unquestioned integrity with assertiveness, presence, and confidence.
• Demonstrated advanced customer focus, judgment, analytical skills, critical thinking and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal).
• Strong business and financial acumen, including strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and business analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability and experience working effectively in a self-directed, proactive, results-oriented, complex, fast paced environment across all levels.
• Demonstrated experience in driving initiatives, holding self and team accountable for results and ensuring continuous improvement.

• Understand customer needs and expectations. Organize, plan, and problem-solve to exceed their expectations and develop positive relationships.

• Forward thinker and innovator. Understand key financial indicators and how day-to-day decisions impact the bottom line and other parts of the organization.
• Possess high moral standards and is honest in word and deed. Promote dignity, fairness, and consideration.

• Ability to multi-task and remain flexible. Possess and display desire, goodwill, initiative, and discipline.

• An effective communicator – Use excellent oral and written skills to communicate with all levels including executive management, outside vendors, and major customers professionally. Keep business leaders abreast of emerging situations as needed.
• Teach, coach, mentor, counsel, motivate, and empower. Nurture relationships with the staff that result in a productive environment that is founded on mutual trust and respect.
• Demonstrate leadership skills to all levels. Translate vision and strategy into explicit plans and action. Rally support behind the vision. Inspire and motivate people to achieve high performance. Recognize success.
• Solution Oriented - work to overcome obstacles or roadblocks always working to resolve in a positive manner. Overcome challenges or obstacles even when it means choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Expect the same from direct reports.
• Be a decision maker – you must weigh in and determine the course of action. Set and pursue goals with a sense of purpose and urgency.
• Be a standard-bearer. Demonstrate ownership of policy and the Code of Conduct. Use authority in an appropriate manner.
• Train and empower the staff to run with expectations. Set clear expectations and trust people to decide how to complete high-quality work. Align work and resources to ensure success. Stay focused on the critical priorities. Connect individual work deliverables to organizational and departmental goals.
• Demonstrate professional knowledge and good judgment with focus on achieving necessary tasks at hand and make course-corrections to ensure success. Focus on AOP plans and drive to achieve results. Measure progress against plans and goals.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to endure wet canning facility environment
• Must be able to endure hot/humid canning facility environment (100 degrees).
• Must be able to climb stairs, occasionally.
• Must be able to stand, stoop and walk, occasionally to frequently.
• Must be able to sit sustained periods of time, frequently.
• Must be able to wear protective clothing –hard hat, glasses, hearing protection, steel toe shoes, hair/beard nets frequently.
• Must have ability to carry up to 15lbs., occasionally.
• Must be able to balance or maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow or slippery surfaces.
• Must be able to withstand exposure to sanitation, production, and ingredient processes.

WE OFFER:

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k).

Please be advised that your application is not complete until you fill out, sign, and submit an Application for Employment for a specific position for which Del Monte Foods, Inc. is actively recruiting. Your application must reflect that you possess the required qualifications for the position.

No sponsorship is available for this position.

No agencies or 3rd party vendors.