Operations Manager

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Alexandria, KY
Senior level
Food • Manufacturing
The Role
The Operations Manager oversees plant production, ensuring safety, quality, and compliance, while leading team development and positive community relations.
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Job Details:

To feed a changing world, it takes an incredible team. From the cutting board to the board room, every Tyson Foods team member plays an important role in our success. That’s where you come in. We are hiring immediately for a Operations Manager role.

 

Setting the table for your success:

At Tyson Foods, our team members’ health and wellness is very important to us. We believe in helping our team members thrive inside and outside of the workplace. That’s why we’re committed to providing a holistic benefits package that provides support for you and your family.

 

We invest in our team members and their success by providing resources like BENEFITS ON DAY ONE OF EMPLOYMENT and FREE EDUCATION!

 

Benefits include: medical/Rx, dental, and vision coverage; 9 paid holidays; paid vacation upon hire, plus earned time off; 401(k) with employer match; stock purchase program; and product purchase program.  We also offer CAREER GROWTH and much more!

 

This location is part of our Prepared Foods Division.

SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for directing controlling and coordinating all aspects of plant production in order to maximize the long-term and short-term profitability of the company.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • This requires working with Team Members to develop good working relationships and high morale.
  • Performing administrative duties and seeing that objectives are being met.
  • Leading production team to create a work environment which reflects a commitment to employee safety product quality food safety and positive employee relations using Lean and Continuous Improvement Techniques through company values and behaviors in action. Communicating with Team Members on project timelines and tasks that need to be completed immediately.
  • Promote positive relationships with the community through personal involvement and support of local government and community programs.
  • Ensure compliance with all quality and food safety requirements to protect customers consumers and Tyson Foods - including all state and federal regulations.
  • Other responsibilities include developing and training Team Members holding monthly safety meetings and group discussions and troubleshooting areas that might cause problems with production.
  • Additional duties include computing quarterly figures and their relationship to objectives handling Team Member grievances and performing other responsibilities as the need arises.
  • The position will also fill in as acting plant manager in the plant manager's absence.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education: Bachelor's degree B.A. or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience: 5 plus years related experience in a manufacturing plant. Food manufacturing experience highly preferred.

This position requires an essential understanding and control of the production process maintenance shipping receiving sanitation quality assurance accounting safety human resources and material management and is responsible for entire plant operation in the

absence of the Plant Manager.

Computer Skills: Standard computer skills including Microsoft Office programs.

Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Special Skills: Display sound judgment and decision-making leadership and organizational skills.

Flexibility to work off hours on a routine basis to provide guidance and training to a three shift 6 -7 day operation.

Travel: 0-10

Relocation Assistance Eligible:

No

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

Hourly Applicants ONLY -You must complete the task after submitting your application to provide additional information to be considered for employment.

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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The Company
HQ: Springdale, AR
24,043 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1935

What We Do

World's largest processor and marketer of protein food products.

We think differently and we act boldly. At Tyson Foods, we're not only ready for tomorrow, we’re leading the way.

We are a company of people engaged in the production of food, seeking to pursue truth and integrity, and committed to creating value for our shareholders, our customers, our team members, and our communities.

We built our name on providing generations of families with wholesome, great-tasting chicken. But today’s Tyson Foods is so much more. As values and behaviors around food have changed, so have we. Today, we’re innovators uniquely positioned to reshape what it means to feed our world. Today, we not only have the fastest growing portfolio of protein-centric brands, we offer greater transparency into everything we do.

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