We have an opportunity for a full-time Plant Manager role at a private equity-owned food produce company in Minneapolis, MN. The company processes fruits and vegetables for retail and food service customers. The facility has about 450 employees. The plant uses a combination of manual (hand cutting and packing fruits and vegetables) and automated processes.
Facility Description
"Fresh Cut" is the produce industry term for the value-added processing of fruits and vegetables - chopping, shredding, slicing, dicing, de-veining, etc.
We are in the process of completing a new brownfield fresh cut facility that will be a $100m+ revenue business on its own over the next 2 years. Facility is scheduled to open 11/01/24.
New facility will be a 3 shift x 5 day operation to start (3rd shift is cleaning), could be 3 shift x 7 days operation at some point
Non-union environment, with a highly diverse employee base (10+ languages spoken) that don't all speak English
Role Requirements
Candidate needs to have a very deep/strong Lean/Continuous Improvement mindset