Job Locations US-CA-Bakersfield

Job ID 2026-1728

# of Openings

1

Category

Operations

The Plant Director role for Califia Farms is responsible for day-to-day and strategic leadership and management of operations in our Bakersfield plant. This role oversees plant operations to achieve short and long-range business goals in safety, quality, customer service, costs, efficiency, plant reliability, and raw material usage yields.

• Set performance objectives and key results (OKRs), operational indicators, and strategies; and lead execution to achieve objectives.
• Ensure performance objectives are cascaded to all Plant Leadership Team Members.
• Ensure Plant Leadership Team collaborates with each other to ensure coordination of activities and aligned decision making.
• Collaborate cross-functionally in an inclusive and supportive way to develop a strong, highly cooperative culture that enables achieving business objectives. This includes all functions such as quality, logistics, supply planning, finance, IT, R&D, human resources, sales, and marketing.
• Sustain a strong safety culture to ensure employees are working safely and injuries are prevented.
• Develop and maintain a plant environment that encourages full and active engagement with all team members, to ensure all ideas, suggestions, and feedback are heard and acted on.
• Ensure hourly team members understand plant performance indicators and receive regular feedback on the
• plant’s performance.
• Accountable for financial performance of operations, drives organization to identify and implement cost savings improvements that result in a continuously declining product standard cost.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, manage/ prevent risk, and maintain an effective business continuity strategy.
• Establish and sustain a culture of continuous improvement to identify and implement improvements in processes, work methods, and process execution that improve operational performance.
• Hire, develop and retain management and operations staff, and provide direction, mentoring, and motivation to build and maintain a high performing plant.
• Ensure that each department has the appropriate management and lead personnel who are responsible for fully training all positions to create an efficient and reliable operation.
• Participate in annual plan development, and direct communication, implementation and execution of operations plans.
• Establishes competencies with leadership team to:
  • Efficiently execute production orders;
  • Staff and operate all plant process and support equipment;

• Interacts with R&D management concerning product design and specifications to ensure efficient production methods.

• Demonstrates commitment to the development, implementation and effectiveness of Califia’s quality management system.

Leadership Qualities

• Lead and live the Califia Values: Passion for Purpose, Fierce Interdependence, Insights into Action, Challenger Spirit
• Dedicated to strong relationships with customers and employees, with excellent communication skills, is inspirational and able to lead people by collaboration, heartfelt service, appreciation, and bias to
• Able to clearly articulate the vision and plan, provide direct and clear feedback and able to positively influence others.
• Thrives on learning by constantly seeking new knowledge, fearless problem solver, engages in self- improvement, is smart and focused on what

Skills and Abilities

• BS/BA or equivalent
• 10+ years of leadership experience in production facilities, prefer beverage, food processing and/or dairy products.
• P&L experience, strong financial and analytical
• Excellent intuition and deductive reasoning for assessing
• Keen insight and proactive ability to identify, assess and manage
• Demonstrated experience and success in managing people effectively and leading operations function in a complex manufacturing
• Skilled and experienced with labor, hiring and management practices, including building and maintaining high performance
• Decisive and collaborative leader with the ability to drive performance through multiple organizational levels.
• Demonstrated operational leadership; hands-on management style; effective decision-maker.

The expected salary range for this position is between $200,000 - $230,000 per year based on a full-time schedule. Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting the actual salary. As a full-time employee, you will be eligible to enroll in Califia’s employee benefits program. You may also be eligible to participate in the company’s bonus program which may be subject to change.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity for employees and applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

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