Plant Manager, Lafayette South | 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

The Lafayette Plant Manager position provides the overall strategic leadership and expertise to ensure success in operating the plant safely and efficiently while being a good steward of the environment and generating quality finished goods that exceed customer expectations. 

The Plant Manager has overall responsibility for the Lafayette site to ensure standards for Environmental, Health, Safety, Quality, Food Quality, and Security are continually met or exceeded.  

The Plant Manager will oversee the entire manufacturing process across the Lafayette plant, from sourcing raw materials to shipping finished products to customers.  This person will be accountable for implementing best practices to improve the plant from safety, environmental and operational processes.  

  

Key Relationships  

Reports to: Vice President of Wet Mill Operations 

• Oversee 7 direct reports, managing the site-specific departments: HS, Environmental, Quality, Operations, Maintenance, Technical.  

• This position works closely with corporate functions such as Finance, Human Resources, Production Planning, Engineering, and Procurement to ensure success of operations.  

   

Key Responsibilities : Plant Manager

Safety and Environmental  

• Responsible for growing a world class safety and environmental culture ensuring continuous improvement through dialogue, actions and implementation of successful initiatives.  

• Ensure full compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, initiatives and procedures. 

• Ensure all environmental permit limits are being met. Report deviations and expedite any repairs needed to return systems to permit limits. Collaborate across network environmental counsels.  

  

Team  

• Partner with site Human Resource Business Partner to outline talent and workforce strategy for the site to drive development, retention, engagement, and inclusion and diversity. 

• Direct change management through proper communication, dis