Plant Manager (m/w/d)

Quick Facts

• Focus: Operational management and production leadership for a manufacturing plant
• Working model: Full-time with a 40-hour work week; flexible working hours

Description

You will take overall responsibility for the plant’s operational control and its continued development, with a focus on production. You lead assigned areas and managers, plan and optimize production workflows and resource deployment, and ensure production targets for schedule, quantity, and quality. You analyze production KPIs and derive measures to improve productivity, quality, costs, and delivery reliability, while ensuring compliance with quality, hygiene, health & safety, and environmental requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and drive further development of the plant (production focus)
• Lead departments and manage leaders on a technical and disciplinary basis
• Control and optimize production processes and the use of personnel, materials, and machines
• Ensure production meets deadlines, target volumes, and quality requirements
• Analyze production KPIs and implement measures to improve productivity, quality, costs, and on-time delivery
• Ensure adherence to all quality, hygiene, occupational health & safety, and environmental standards
• Develop supervisors, employees, and production processes
• Manage investment, optimization, and change projects
• Collaborate with Engineering/Technology, Production Planning, Quality, Logistics, and other interfaces
• Regularly report results, variances, and actions to the Managing Director

Requirements

• Successfully completed technical training with relevant professional experience; alternatively a technical degree or further training as master technician/meiter or technician
• Multi-year professional and leadership experience in an industrial environment, ideally in food production
• Practical experience with production processes, systems/equipment, and production KPIs
• Solid knowledge of quality, hygiene, and occupational health & safety requirements
• Entrepreneurial mindset, confident decision-making, and strong hands-on mentality
• Clear, appreciative leadership style; motivation to develop people and processes
• Willingness to stay actively in production and address operational issues on site

Benefits

• Family-oriented, team-based culture with flat hierarchies and fast decision-making
• Above-average pay
• 40-hour week in full-time employment
• Flexible working hours
• Corporate Benefits
• Free employee parking