Site Director, Midrand Plant at DSM-Firmenich

• As our successful Site Director for the Midrand Plant, Taste, Texture and Health, you will lead the seamless orchestration of all site operations to deliver exceptional customer experience. You will be accountable for the safe, compliant, and cost-effective performance of the manufacturing technologies and key functions including Safety, Health and Environment.
• You will ensure a strong commitment to a zero-incident SHE culture through behavioral and occupational leadership.
• In this role you will be required to drive transformational changes in process improvement and culture, with a focus on strategic planning and change implementation.
• You will serve as a key liaison with local regulatory authorities and internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance and operational excellence. Additionally, you will manage expense budgets in line with corporate guidelines, maintaining financial discipline while supporting business objectives.

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead the future-proof journey to transform the site with high reliable operations and consistent results.
• Manage and control the plant operation (Planning, Operations, Internal Logistics & Shipping, Maintenance, Sampling) with full responsibility to achieve short and medium term financial and operating objectives set by business management
• Build, motivate and lead the plant community in line with dsm-firmenich core values
• Ensuring the highest priority to safety and to the protection of the health of our employees, our customers and the public well as to the protection of the Environment
• Identify, define and lead initiatives that will drive significant improvements in customer satisfaction and cost savings
• Ensure company strategy and values are cascaded within workforce to foster an environment where all employees are motivated and committed to give their best
• Identify and propose capital investment to improve HS&E, Quality and efficiency of plant
• Identify and drive the fundamental changes necessary to orient plant team behavior towards customer needs and ensure sustainable performance aligned with business requirements
• Lead implementation of OPEX organization to develop a performance driven culture by implementing Continuous Improvement/Lean principles and concepts through the value chain
• Ensure alignment between SC and business; Identify and define with the business the key site projects that will fundamentally change and differentiate the SC over the next strategy period; Set priorities and allocate resources; accordingly, develop and implement Capex plan/HSE initiatives in alignment with company strategy and values
• Develop, implement, report, set targets and control a set of KPI's to support achievements of plant objectives 

We offer:

• A collaborative and growth-oriented work culture within a global organization.
• A culture that prioritizes safety and well-being, both physically and mentally
• The opportunity to work for a company where sustainability is much more than a claim and is core to our strategy and purpose
• Barrier-free communities within our organization where every employee is equally valued and respected – regardless of their background, beliefs, or identity
• An eagerness to be one team and learn from each other to bring progress to life and create a better future

You bring:

• Master’s degree in chemical, Process or Management Engineering or Food Technology
• 10+ years of prior plant leadership experience in roles of increasing responsibility within food-manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, or related manufacturing environments
• 8+ years’ experience managing people and cross functional leadership
• Excellent knowledge of GMP, HACCP, ISO 9001/14001 standards.
• High-level analytical and modeling skills and ability to coach others/ teams
• Ability to lead the deployment of systematic improvements and organizational capabilities
• Requires effective management of a variety of activities in a fast-paced environment, combined with a focus on engaging employees, effective decision making, effective communication and strong organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of regulations on safety in the workplace
• Fluent in English – mandatory written and verbal