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Senior Leader, Processing Operations – U.S.
Pacific SeafoodUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Apr 2025
About the role
At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.
Summary:
The Senior Leader of Processing Operations provides strategic leadership and oversight over all processing operations across the western United States, including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. This role is responsible for ensuring operational excellence, efficiency, and compliance with quality and safety standards. Charged with cultivating a high-performance culture and driving continuous improvement, cost optimization, and best practices across all locations. This Senior position is a significant contributing member of the Processing leadership team that develops and executes long-term business plans that encompass fleet and resource management, production demands and plant performance to achieve organizational goals.
Key Responsibilities:
1.Team Leadership
Summary:
The Senior Leader of Processing Operations provides strategic leadership and oversight over all processing operations across the western United States, including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. This role is responsible for ensuring operational excellence, efficiency, and compliance with quality and safety standards. Charged with cultivating a high-performance culture and driving continuous improvement, cost optimization, and best practices across all locations. This Senior position is a significant contributing member of the Processing leadership team that develops and executes long-term business plans that encompass fleet and resource management, production demands and plant performance to achieve organizational goals.
Key Responsibilities:
1.Team Leadership
- Be a role model at all times in projecting and applying The Pacific Seafood Diamond Philosophy (Productivity, Quality, Excellence and Teamwork).
- Build relationships and trust with plant General Managers to help gain alignment on decisions.
- Motivate, direct, coach and develop high performing teams to meet established goals and build organizational capability and growth.
- Develop succession planning that achieves leadership pipelines to support long-term growth and attracts and retains top talent.
- Create strategic objectives that hold location Leaders accountable to clearly defined performance standards.
- Establish effective working relationships with industry partners, external regulatory agencies and local community and key stakeholders.
- Maintain a strong and vocal leadership presence within the team, which includes on-site visits and consistent accessibility to provide processing locations the support needed.
- Champion a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations and promoting an injury/accident-free workplace.
- Sets strategic direction for seafood processing locations, both seasonal and year-round, with a focus on achieving annual efficiency gains through operational and workforce optimization.
- Cultivate trusted partnerships with boat captains to ensure optimal fleet and resource management for U.S. processing locations. Collaborate with Canadian operational and fleet leaders to maximize opportunities across the division.
- Strive to continuously improve operations with respect to best practices and effective use of technology for productivity, food quality, team member safety, inventory levels and management of operating expenses.
- Develop and manage an operating plan developed by you and your team that meets or exceeds the division and individual location objectives. Determine strategies and tactics for achieving financial objectives, presenting assumptions, and recommending course corrections.
- Develop and maintain operational KPIs across all sites, with measurable metrics and continuous feedback.
- Applies Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to improve automation, streamline operations, eliminate waste, increase throughput, and reduce changeover times.
- Oversight of all processing locations expenses including capital expenditures and annual planning, meeting all budgeted requirements.
- Directs capital projects focusing on plant automation, facility upgrades, and ROI-driven infrastructure investments.
- Develop business plans and budgets for the efficient use of materials, machines, and team members; establish metrics, review, and analyze activities, costs, operations, and forecast data to determine department, location, or division progress toward the organization’s stated goals and
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