Operations Manager

Company: Kerry Ingredients and Flavours
Location: Niagara Falls
Posted on: September 19, 2022

Job Description:

Operations Manager

Requisition ID 35335

Position Type (US)Full Time

Career Function Manufacturing/Production

Recruiter #LI-AJ1

Posting Type LI

Kerry is a global leader in taste & nutrition. Our manufacturing facilities produce and supply the world with over 15,000 different food, beverage, and pharmaceutical products throughout the world. With a commitment toward sustainability and reputation for innovation, a career with Kerry offers you the chance to change the way the world sees food and nutrition. A career with Kerry is something you can feel good about.

About Kerry

A career with Kerry Taste & Nutrition offers you an opportunity to shape how people across the globe view food and beverage while providing you opportunities to explore and grow as your interests do. With our commitment to a sustainable future, a career with Kerry is something you can feel good about.

Where you'll work:

Niagara Falls, NY location produces organic salts, including propionates and acetates, serving Pharmaceutical, Food, Feed and Technical Industries. With this long-standing and fully automated manufacturing site, Kerry offers world class quality products to a global market. Our products fill vital needs in a broad range of applications that are essential to everyday life including food preservation, antibiotic formulation, dialysis treatment, energy production and more.

400 47th St., Niagara Falls, NY 14304

What you'll do:

* Operation of assigned production unit in compliance with established policies, procedures, permits and regulatory requirements
* Meeting or exceeding performance standards of assigned production unit including production rate, on-stream time, and raw material efficiency
* Meeting or exceeding quality specifications for manufactured products
* Prioritization and resolution of manufacturing difficulties (process or mechanical)
* Continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product quality, reliability and responsiveness to the customer
* Maintaining records pertinent to unit operations, preparing regular performance reports, communicating throughout the organization, and convening regular meetings with operating personnel
* Training of assigned personnel and support of these requirements for outside contractors
* Control of finished goods including satisfactory delivery to the customer
* Selection of new personnel, performance appraisals, and disciplinary action

What you'll need to be successful:

* Bachelors degree in chemical engineering or similar
* 10+ years of experience in Chemical manufacturing industries
* Plant performance management
* People oriented mindset
* Processes development and improvement experience
* Project management experience
* ERP management (SAP preferred)

Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. EEO is the Law poster can be found here. Additional information can also be here .

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