Company description

The Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, was created in 2018 to build a regenerative, equitable, and socially just agriculture sector.  The mission of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance is to scale up regenerative poultry in the movement to provide a farmer driven model that showcases regenerative agriculture as the transformational shift needed to balance our ecosystems at large.

Job description

Position Summary: The primary responsibility of the Plant Manager is to manage the RAA’s poultry processing facility out of Stacyville, Iowa.  The processing facility opened in 2021 with plans to expand processing capacity in 2022.  A primary outcome of this job is to ensure timely and cost-efficient processing and management of poultry processed from coordination of farmers and other custom processing clients through the shipping of the product out of the facility.

Key roles include; day-to-day supervision of the plant’s staff to achieve required production and quality standards are met and ensuring the safety, sanitation and other critical regulatory and managerial aspects of the processing facility as well as building and maintaining a healthy working environment.


 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following, other duties may be assigned.

• Manage daily operations of USDA inspected poultry processing facility

• Conduct employee interviews and hire to fill general plant labor positions.

• Train and supervise plant workers and production.

• Serve as the Quality Assurance Monitor at the current start up stage of the plant

• Establishes, measures, and is accountable for operating and capital budgets for the processor and ensuring the efficient and effective use of the property, plant, equipment.

• Manage all facility operational plans, and ensure daily recordkeeping is completed adequately to fulfill HACCP and SSOP plans and requirements.

• Lead training processes to ensure worker competency and that HACCP, SSOP plans are carried out effectively on a daily basis, to improve skill sets of the staff to optimize the results of the team efforts and to reduce employee turnover.

• Tend to plant customers, maintain all plant customer records.

• Troubleshoot and manage employee and facility issues as they arrive

• Knowledge of Title 9 Code of Federal Regulations Chapter III

• Collaboratively lead investigations relating to non-conforming events driving to root cause(s) and effective resolution.

• Participate in RAA staff development, organizational planning, and check-ins

 

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in business, ag-business or related discipline; and/or five+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior experience in USDA meat processing facility preferred.

 

Language Ability: Read, analyze and interpret business, professional, technical or governmental documents. Write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, customers and the public. Bilingual Spanish-English language skills preferred.

 

Mathematical Ability: Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume. Apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

 

Computer Skills: Microsoft Office Products, basic networks troubleshooting or capacity to interface with technical service providers, internet and basic computer set-up and management for desktops and portable computers, QuickBooks accounting software preferred.

 

Certificates and Licenses: Previous HACCP certification strongly preferred, or willing to complete 2 day training course.

 

Travel: Minimal, occasional travel for offsite business meetings.

 

Salary: $70,000-80,000 annual salary, full time position.

 

Benefits: Competitive health, dental, vision plan options. Relocation assistance is available.

 

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $70,000.00 - $80,000.00

Work visa

This employer is willing to sponsor a work visa for international applicants

Application instructions

Deadline

March 16, 2022