The Martel Plant produces dry mixes for a variety of wholesale and food service customers, as well as some internal General Mills plants. The Martel Plant has approximately 200 employees. Hourly team members are part of the BCTGM labor union.

Accountabilities:

Leadership
- Provide leadership to drive results (cost, system performance, quality, safety, other key results)
- Development of site strategic plan for technical staffing, capital investment, general competencies, and system/technology improvements
- Hiring, coaching, mentoring, and development of plant technical resources
- Lead organizational effectiveness strategies within the maintenance organization
- World class system engineering support for process improvements, waste elimination, throughput improvements, training, plant tests and trials
- Accountability for management of external technical relationships with A/E firms, contractors, and equipment vendors
- Provide technical leadership and for site compliance with EPA and OSHA requirements in concert with designated functional experts
- Provide site leadership to achieve maximization/optimization of capital assets and site/capacity utilization as well as lead safety initiatives in technical areas

Capital Planning & Execution
- Develop short term and long range capital investment plans for facility and be accountable for the planning and execution of all projects
- Responsible for the capital investment process for the site (e.g. standards, project management, capital approval, etc.)

Continuous Improvement
- Develop and support strategies that integrate Continuous Improvement methodologies into the Master Plan and Phase Progression model
- Provide leadership for the application of Continuous Improvement Pillars, tools, and training to meet business objectives – be an active member of CI Steering Committee and oversee AM and PM Pillars
- Provide site leadership for technical solutions to operational problems including systems optimization, debottlenecking, and troubleshooting

Maintenance and Information Systems
- Leverage and enhance the work system and technical skill level in the maintenance organization
- Oversight of maintenance labor, services and supplies budgets, storeroom inventory working capital
- Drive strategies for maintenance and equipment/process reliability
- Accountable for the strategy, design and implementation of control systems and manufacturing information systems

Related Experience:
7 years

Required Skills/Experiences:
- Demonstrated leadership in directing and managing technical teams and individuals.

- Experience Capital Planning & Mgmt, Continuous Improvement, and Maintenance.

Competencies/Behaviors:
- Leading Through Vision and Strategy: Communicates an exciting future vision, creates break-through strategies, established aggressive performance goals. Embraces and actively supports key corporate strategies.

- Driving Innovation and Growth: Thinks “outside the box”, encourages risk taking, generates creative solutions, and learns from both successes and failures.

- Energizing and Developing Self and Others: Builds positive and empowering work environments, hires / promotes the best talent, leverages through teamwork and diversity, places priority on people development.

- Delivering Outstanding Results: Focuses on the right priorities, makes timely decisions, and delivers on short and long term commitments. Brings consumer considerations to bear on everything we do.

- Demonstrating Integrity and Character: Exhibits the highest standards of integrity and judgment, is open and direct, acts with courage, builds credibility and trust. Consistently strives to do the right thing.

- Collaboration: Seeks first to understand, then to be understood. Actively leads / participates on cross-functional teams. Builds effective relationships with people at all levels. Seeks and delivers candid, meaningful feedback.

- Judgment / Problem Solving: Knows how to use experience, savvy, and “street smarts” to his / her advantage. Has good intuition or “gut feel”. Persists when faced with adverse, difficult situations. Knows when to pull back. Exercises sound business judgment in complex environments where the course of action is not always clear.

- Adaptability / Flexibility: Functions effectively within ever-changing environments. Easily adjusts to multiple demands, shifting work priorities, ambiguity, adversity, and change. Is resilient and calm under pressure. Learns and applies new concepts quickly and effectively.