Actively work to ensure that all employees, visitors, vendors and contractors understand and align with the ADM safety policies and procedures; + Require compliance with all state and federal laws and regulations not limited to Life Critical Safety programs (lockout/tagout, hot work, confined spaces, etc.), Process Safety Management (PSM) and EPA requirements for water and air discharges; + Effectively manage Food Safety and Quality personnel to ensure continuous audit readiness in a Food Safety plant; + Efficiently manage resources and assets to meet production and quality goals; + Lead plant management in establishing policies, procedures and plant priorities; + Lead plant operations in a manner that results in a cohesive, focused, positive climate to achieve organizational goals driving high employee engagement and morale; + Provide mentorship to department superintendents and engineers to achieve short term and long-term department performance through use of KPI’s, continuous improvement, and Performance Excellence concepts; + Embrace an owner’s mentality by managing costs and continuously focus on efficiency improvement; + Ensure training and development of all plant employees to support rapid and efficient onboarding of new colleagues and proficiency of existing colleagues; + Provide mentorship, accountability, and disciplinary guidance to the operations management team. + 12+ years of experience leading a production environment in food, ingredients processing with half of that experience working within a large multinational organization; + Experience working with large corporate environment and senior leadership; + Continuous Improvement leadership and application of CI processes in a production environment; + Demonstrated scale-up experience and/or new technology development experience in a production Environment; + Experience in a batch process operations production plant including but not limited to mixers, blenders, system, and finished goods warehousing.