General Manager, White Springs

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services, and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose, Feeding the Future, is the reason we come to work each day. We’re guided by our culture of care and our core values: safety, inclusion, integrity, and results. When we say we care, we mean it. We’re creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe, has a sense of belonging, trusts one another, and acts with integrity.   

 

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26,000 employees, we operate a world-class network of production, distribution, and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers' needs and strive to provide a more profitable, sustainable, and secure future for all stakeholders.  Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.  

 

Reporting to the Vice President, Phosphate Operations, the General Manger, White Springs is responsible for strategic planning, management, and leadership of safe, reliable and efficient operations of the Swift Creek and Suwanee River Complex’s in the State of Florida, United States.

 

The General Manager ensures structuring all businesses and related activities in partnership with Nitrogen & Phosphate executive leadership team, cash generation and control, gain in market share through effective and efficient operations, institutional matters, priorities assessment, resources allocation, including sustaining capital and investment needs.  

 

This position is located in White Springs, Florida

 

Accountability: 

Responsible for a complex and dynamic organization that operates 2 plants and one mine with multiple work faces with approximately 500 – 600 employees and contractors.

 

What you will do: 

• This position serves as a key member of the PLT (Phosphate Leadership Team) that sets strategic direction and formulates both long and short-range plans, policies, programs, and objectives.
• Implements and sustains behavioral based safety program and establishes safety standards and organizational climate conducive to safe work performance.
• Develops, plans, and allocates resources to sustain sound community and governmental relations to foster a positive local public image for the company.
• Develops and implements strategic plans to produce product mix and quantities to meet sales requirements within established specifications.
• Ensures that all environmental regulatory obligations are met; allocates resources, submits capital projects request, etc. to achieve environmental stewardship objectives.
• Selects, develops, motivates, and recognizes the key managerial staff capable of obtaining maximum results in assigned areas, and for providing a continuum of technical and managerial talent for the future.
• Directs the maintenance and engineering efforts to attain optimum reliability and efficiency of the production units.
• Develops and recommends production strategies, together with capital and operating budget requirements to optimize short and long-range production capabilities while minimizing exposure to economic and environmental risks.
• Directs technical effort to identify potential process and reliability improvements. Justify potential projects through cost analysis (ROI) and request capital resources.
• Identifies risks to the business and initiate corrective actions to eliminate or minimize risk.
• Meets with key staff to assure a coordinated management effort in the development and execution of the operations long-range objectives in the areas of facilities and production planning, materials procurement coordination, and human resource allocation.
• Keep continuous improvement at the forefront of the management team’s focus and ensure initiatives remain on track.
• Ensures the implementation of manufacturing technologies and control systems, which will improve productivity and product quality, enhance schedule and cost effectiveness, and contribute to overall phosphate division’s profitability.
• Formulates and recommend an operations budget to Management and upon approval