Production Manager

About Divert

Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Founded in 2007, the company provides an end-to-end solution that leverages data to prevent waste, facilitates edible food recovery to provide to people in need, and transforms unsold food products into renewable energy to power communities. Through this integrated approach to reducing wasted food–Prevent, Provide, Power™–Divert works with customers across the U.S. to reduce wasted food and positively impact people and the environment.

What you’ll do:

The Production Manager is responsible for leading day-to-day plant operations at Plymouth, IN facility. In this facility, Divert receives unsold food from the client, analyzes the content, and then separates organics to be processed by our partner's digesters. This is a complex process that requires individuals working in the facility to work in a collaborative, team-centered manner. The successful individual demonstrates strong leadership, mentorship, technical training and is mechanically inclined, comfortable working with standard and proprietary production equipment.

Reporting directly to the Plant Manager, the Production Manager will lead the way to:

- Promote a safe and healthy workplace! Engage your team in an effort to maintain the Divert culture in the plant by focusing on safe behaviors, fostering teamwork and executing processes that support empowerment and structured independence.

- Lead by example! Assure a safe work environment through training and reinforcement of acceptable behavior.

- Drive excellence! Assure established operating discipline is maintained consistently by executing standard work and validating results.

- Train & retain! Develops hourly workforce through regular coaching and feedback focused on growth, development, and retention.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for leading the day-to-day execution and management of the plant operations processing plan, and staffing plan while working with the Plant Manager to ensure proper adjustments are made as needed

- Effectively engage your team on the plant floor working with peer team members (Maintenance Manager and Transportation Manager/Supervisor) to execute the plan for the day

- Immerse yourself, lead from the front, and develop a full understanding of all processes and equipment.

- Manage processes via Standard Work, SOPs and processes to ensure proper plant operation and compliance to all current standards and regulations/permits.

- Ensure team members continue to develop through education and training to build a bench of knowledge and skill, and ensure smooth and consistent operations across all shifts/crews and team members

- Build plans to execute throughout the year (peak vs non-peak, covering holidays), ensuring that the needs of the business and team members are in alignment

What we’re looking for:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Operations Management is preferred. If no Bachelor's degree, you will need a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in industrial processes and team leadership as described above, demonstrating strong year-over-year results.

- Experience in leading teams in a manufacturing or production environment.

- Responsive and proactive leader with the ability to resolve conflicts while maintaining a positive and professional work environment

- Hands on leader who thrives in a role with 24/7 operations, where they spend the majority of their time on the plant floor working with their team members from all four crews

- Shift/Schedule: late morning start time, 10a-12p to be available for evening shift hand off at 6p, and ability to participate in on-call rotation and support the operations team on nights and weekends, as needed.

What's In It For You?

- Compensation range: $95-105k / Year

- Health, Vision and Dental Benefits (effective the first of the month following your date of hire!)

- Life Insurance

- Safe harbor 401(k) plan

- Paid Time Off

- Opportunities for Advancement with a Rapidly Growing, Mission-Driven Organization

Divert Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.