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Provides management oversight for the day-to-day operations and proper functioning of a plant, to include Manufacturing, Distribution, Delivery Execution, Maintenance, Sales, Environmental Health & Safety, and Purchasing. This position will support and create processes and activities within functional areas and works to support the development of new business and maintenance of current businesses. The Plant Manager ensures efficiency, safety, quality throughout the plant. They own and manage plant P&L to control costs and drive performance. They identify process improvement opportunities to drive efficiency and oversee operational performance to ensure consistent and superior customer service, while also building a strong culture that develops employees.\nDemonstrates our “True North” attributes: voice of the customer, respect for the individual, no nonsense communication and utilization of facts, servant leadership and has a continuous improvement mindset in every facet of leadership and daily interaction. Leads, collaborates and demonstrates the lean principles and utilizes the lean methodologies and tools to facilitate continuous process improvements and value creation for our customers, employees and shareholders. Actively utilizes lean tools (VSM, Kaizen, A3, etc.) to inform and assess business opportunities to drive continuous improvement. Lead and participate in Kaizen and value stream mapping activities.\nDUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES\nAchieve financial goals\nTrack P&L metrics and participate in financial analysis & planning\nAssist the Market Manager to develop and manage the annual Capital expenditure, sales forecasts, P&L management for assigned plant.\nReview & approve invoices, expenses & other accounting reports as required by policy.\nEvaluates, recommends and implements capital improvement projects that contributes to increased efficiencies relative to company goals and objectives\nTrack budgets and progress towards monthly / annual sales & profit targets\nSupports Market Manager by helping prepare, analyze, and reconcile financial reports in order to meet markets strategic initiatives as needed\nDiscuss financial performance with Market Manager as needed define and execute plans for financial corrections.\nIdentify and implement improvement efforts.\nPromote a performance-driven and continuous-improvementenvironment for manufacturing operations. Foster innovation and creativity within the plant.\nProactively seeks ways to improve KPI’s particularly decreasing CPU (cost per unit) and maintaining quality, efficiency and customer service.\nEvaluates manufacturing, production and logistics processes for improved efficiencies at assigned plant.\nWork with the Market Manager to provide insights on process improvement opportunities for safety, quality, delivery, production and cost reduction. Gain approval, develop plans and lead the implementation.\nManage operational plant performance.\nResponsible for all manufacturing and logistics related activities for assigned plant.\nOversee production to ensure fulfillment of all customer orders.\nEnsure on schedule and on budget delivery.\nAssess plant performance against Operating Plans & Standards. Ensure plant performance meets area goals and exceeds customer requirements.\nMaintain the plant’s PSMRMP and HACCP programs\nMaintain Preventive Maintenance program and make updates as needed\nIncident commander/responder in the event of Hazmat leak or spill\nManagement of Delivery Execution.\nManages hiring, training, and performance of all DSD drivers as applicable either directly or in support of a Distribution Supervisor(s).\nManages driver scheduling, delivery execution & DVM board to include DNS, SAS, OOS\nManages performance and drive improvement in scorecard metrics.\nEnsures all deliveries are made safely and efficiently including DSD, transport and special events.\nManages plant delivery staff including scheduling and driver check-in.\nDrives safety & compliance as a priority including DQ files, hours of service, daily vehicle inspection report and accident reporting and completion.\nManages handheld, fuel card and fleet.\nDrive a safety focused culture\nEmphasize safety programs and initiatives and assure the highest standard of safety throughout the plant and distribution centers.\nTrack and monitor safety metrics and communicate these metrics to plant staff.\nInvestigate & review accidents & injuries with follow-up as necessary. Ensure timely and accurate documentation is completed.\nCreate a positive culture that supports personnel development and growing strong talent.\nManages staffing requirements for increased labor efficiencies to meet plant objectives.\nEstablishes standards of performance including timely and accurate use of the performance management process to evaluate and communicate effectiveness and suggestions for development opportunities.\nConduct staff meetings to communicate key information and ensure messages are cascaded down into the organization.\nSupervise, develop, and coach supervisors at the plant.\nWork with management team to support employees on their growth and development. Motivate employees to contribute at their full potential.\nIdentify top talent and be a mentor and advisor for these high performing employees. Outline succession plans to identify growth opportunities for top talent.\nCoordinate the hiring and training of direct employees and interview for key positions.\nDevelop and maintain a favorable employee relations environment.\nPartner with Human Resources to establish, drive and maintain all people practices and ensure 100% adherence to established timelines.\nMake and assume other duties and responsibilities required or assigned by management.\nAdhering to the Code of Business Ethics is essential. We value honesty and integrity above all else and we expect our employees to be committed to the highest ethical standards.\nMaintain high safety standards. Safety is personal for us all.\nCONTACTS\nInternal: RVP, Market Manager, RHRM, Regional Operations Manager, Plant and DC Managers, Manufacturing and Processing Employees.\nExternal: Outside contact when ordering and picking up supplies, or working special events\nEDUCATION & EXPERIENCE\nCollege degree preferred\nMinimum three (3) yrs. experience in ice business or related food production industry with an understanding of seasonal demand.\n4+ years of leadership/managementexperience in a large manufacturing environment.\nQuick change environment experience preferred. Ability to work in a 24/7 environment.\nKnowledge of manufacturing & distribution capabilities, process improvements, root cause analysis, and computer skills.\nProject management or technical leadership experience.\nResults oriented with a high level of organization and time management skills.\nAbility to develop and mentor resources.\nAble to work in a rapidly changing environment.\nMust have valid driver’s license & good driving record - will be required to use company vehicle at times.\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY\nSKILLS & ABILITIES\nAbility to read and interpret documents in English, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.\nAbility to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner\nAbility to work in an unfatigued state\nAbility to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance\nAbility to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short term memory\nAbility to concentrate and perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment\nAbility to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms\nDemonstrate a caring, committed and concerned attitude about safety\nPossess fast reflexes and unimpaired coordination and ability to rapidly respond to stimuli\nNot mentally or physically impaired from any cause that can adversely affect ability to safely and competently perform required functions\nAbility to take prompt and appropriate response to operating conditions\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY\nHas direct or indirect supervision of all Plant employees.\nWORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS\nConditions vary from normal office conditions to all areas inside and outside of a plant. Exposure to extreme temperature fluctuations, electrical hazards, ammonia and heavy moving equipment.\nMinimal travel required\nThe job requires working nights and weekends. On-call availability is expected.\nAbility to lift 40 lbs.\nThe job requires excellent manual dexterity and the ability to think quickly under pressure\nThe employee will be required to occasionally stand and walk within a plant environment.\n Location\nPierreCity:\nPierreState:\nSouth Dakota","description_format":"text","description_chars":8946,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Civil Defense"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T19:44:03Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":18,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.514,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":40,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/reddy-ice-manager-plant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/reddy-ice-manager-plant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T08:09:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11583,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3868535},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3868535"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Freddy-ice-manager-plant"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Freddy-ice-manager-plant"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Freddy-ice-manager-plant"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/reddy-ice-manager-plant\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Freddy-ice-manager-plant"}]}