Senior Area Manager | Primient

About Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

About the Role

Our plant leadership team including area managers have a key part to play in shaping the future of the Primient business. You can drive impact on the performance of your facility by championing continuous improvement and embedding our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth into day-to-day operations.

Our Senior Area Manager role for Refinery is key to the safety, efficiency, quality, production, cost, staffing and project management of our facility. You will become a go-to technical expert and a leader who is trusted to bring out the best in our people and technology.

Key responsibilities: Senior Area Manager

• Accountable for the safety performance of the area.  This is to include ensuring that all plant safety policies and procedures are followed; daily safety related expectations are met, and all safety issues are clearly communicated and remediated as timely as possible.   
• Accountable for the performance management and personnel development of your department.  This is to include active involvement in the technical training and development of the process technicians to ensure skill block progression. Responsible for developing clearly defined goals and objectives for the area through involvement of the area leadership.  Responsibilities also include performance evaluations of the area leadership and career development of area people.  This role will serve as a resource for leadership development of the Area Manager, TCs, TRs, Day Resources, and Area Technologists. 
• Accountable for operating your department in adherence to Primient Operating Model (POM) guidelines and expectations including oversight of POM Green Road execution and coordination of pFMEA updates with Engineering team, daily loss tracker completion and month end analysis including ownership of RCA process, and oversight of Work Place Organization (WPO) process to include compliance to standards and continuous improvement of overall process effectiveness. 
• Accountable for ownership of area 5-year Capital Plan and Productivity Agenda.  This role is responsible for reviewing and organizing the engineering process modifications and projects within the department in a collaborative effort with the plant technical manager and area engineers.  This will include interfacing with area Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance teams to develop and prioritize capital, productivity, and major repair/overhaul work plans. This role ill work proactively with cross product stream teams to coordinate work planning to minimize cost and impact on overall plan performance. 
• Accountable for the area costs.  This is to include a detailed understanding of the budgeted area cost drivers, both fixed and variable, compared to usages month on month.  The role is responsible for the development of a tracking tool as well as involvement of all available resources in the department to focus on reducing excess, consumption, and cost reduction, effectively creating and environment of continuous improvement and teamwork. 
• Accountable for area quality and production results.  This is to include daily analysis of continuous process data to determine or evaluate area process inefficiencies as well as prioritize issues.  Ensure area resources are clear on direction with respect to problem resolution.  Expectation is that regular communication occurs between the quality assurance manager, product manager(s), and other commercial resources that support the responsible area.   
• Expected to learn the area processes with the outcome being a technical expert in all subject matters defined in the area. 
• Accountable for submitting a weekly area report that tracks safety/ environmental, quality, production relative to plan including yield variances, costs and out of range cost drivers, and project activity. 

About You

You will combine technical expertise, strong planning and management skills, and a talent for motivating and developing colleagues. We are also looking for:

Musts: 

• Experience leading successful teams comprised of process technicians, engineers, and maintenance personnel as well as demonstrating excellent problem solving skills. 
• Excellent computer skills: Word, Excel, SAP, Outlook, OSI PI 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, organizational skills, and self-motivated customer focused aptitude and attitude. Must have the ability to build good relationships with internal peers, customer service, and the sales group. 
• Have a management style consistent with participative environment (see Behavioural Job Description) 
• Possess broad based technical skills as well as planning and organizing and people development with at least 5-10 years of technical and plant experience. 

Wants: 

• Continuous industrial processing experience. 
• 4 year technical degree 
• Corn Wet Milling and/or Refinery Knowledge 
• Knowledge of corn co-products systems 
• Broad industrial and technical Knowledge 
• Experience implementing Process Safety Management (PSM) and related systems is preferred but not required 

Working with us in Lafayette 

Lafayette is home to one of our longest standing corn milling Primient plants. Lafayette prides itself on their strong links to the surrounding local communities. At Lafayette, there is a family feel combined with a strong focus on safety, excellence, and improvement. Lafayette is one of the most environmentally friendly sites of its kind in the country, having switched from coal power to natural gas.    

Home to Purdue University, the Lafayette metropolitan area has a population of nearly a quarter of a million and is located 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis and 125 miles southeast of Chicago. Central Lafayette has an urban feel, with greener suburbs surrounding it. There is a diverse and vibrant cultural scene, with many independent restaurants and shops, plus numerous festivals through the summer.     

Total Rewards

The annual pay range estimated for this position is $130,860.00 - $163,575.00 and is bonus eligible.

• Competitive Pay​

• Multiple Healthcare plan choices​

• Dental and vision insurance​

• A 401(k) plan with company and matching contributions ​

• Short- and Long-Term Disability​

• Life, AD&D, and Voluntary Insurance plans​

• Paid holidays & vacation​

• Floating days off​

• Parental leave for new parents​

• Employee resource groups​

• Learning & development programs​

• Fun culture where you have an opportunity in shaping our future

Career Path & Culture

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are believers in the power of difference. We strive to represent the communities in which we operate and to provide an inclusive, welcoming environment for all. We want Primient to be a place where every employee feels they belong and knows they are seen, heard, valued and safe to speak up. Our aspiration is to unlock the full potential in diverse perspectives, while offering everyone an equal chance to grow,

Primient is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.

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