Plant Manager
Job Description
Plant Manager – Pork Processing (Harvest Facility)
We’re looking for a Plant Manager who knows how to run a tight, efficient operation, but more importantly, knows how to lead people, elevate standards, and create a facility that performs at a high level every single day.
This isn’t a maintenance role. This is a build, lead, and optimize role inside a core production facility.
What You’ll Do
You’ll take full ownership of a pork harvest facility, leading everything from:
- Daily production, throughput, and yield performance
- USDA compliance, food safety, and audit readiness
- Labor planning, staffing, and frontline leadership development
- Cost control, efficiency, and operational discipline
- Continuous improvement initiatives across the plant
- You’ll ensure the operation runs safely, efficiently, and consistently with no surprises.
- You’ll lead through supervisors and build a team that is accountable, stable, and high-performing.
Who You Are
- Proven leader within meat processing or harvest (pork preferred)
- Experienced managing in a USDA-inspected environment
- Strong operational mindset- focused on throughput, yield, labor efficiency, and execution
- Able to lead from the floor while developing leadership beneath you
- Decisive, accountable, and comfortable owning outcomes
You’re the type of leader who:
- Earns respect on the production floor
- Identifies issues early and acts quickly
- Balances people, performance, and process without overcomplicating things
Why This Role
- Ownership: You will run the plan, not just manage a function
- Impact: Direct influence on performance, culture, and results
- Opportunity: Established operation with room to improve, stabilize, and optimize
- Visibility: Key role within the organization with access to leadership