Come join our team, where your contributions will continue to enhance our story!
Our 2-year leadership development program provides an outstanding opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of our industry and the skills it takes to lead teams and drive change in a fast-paced, dynamic organization.
Through business-critical projects, you’ll build a working knowledge of our industry, strengthen your professional skill sets, and directly contribute to company growth.
What to Expect as a Leader Development Professional in a 2-year rotation:
Through people leadership and business-critical projects, you will gain a thorough understanding of our industry, our culture, and processes all while directly contributing to company growth and success.
- A 24-month program with rotations involving various departments
- Opportunities to lead teams and projects
- Professional development
- Networking with senior Sazerac leadership
- Feedback throughout rotational program
You'll performs leadership and engineering-related work with a focus on identifying opportunities to advance business and operational goals in roles requiring an engineering degree. Able to quickly grasp departmental systems, in context with the plant and company operation. Identify areas for improvement and drive performance by implementing ideas and solutions to challenges within that area.
- Promote a safety culture to ensure employees think safety first and watch out for the safety of their teammates; prioritize quick identification and remedy of safety hazards. Identify and manage risks of projects, including safety aspects. Maintains safe and clean working environment by enforcing procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Ensures employees are treated fairly and with respect. Creates a team environment where all employees are encouraged to make a difference in meeting and exceeding expectations. Foster an environment of operator ownership throughout.
- Utilize the learnings from the rotation plan to help develop skillset. Identify core strengths and weaknesses within yourself and team members during the rotation. Train, evaluate and develop direct reports. Continuously improve personal weaknesses and enhance strengths.
- Use the rotational nature of the position to develop understanding of Sazerac’s organizational structure and personal career goals. Create and execute a personal Career Development Plan with manager using this broad exposure. Identify career motivators and skill development needed to achieve the goals. Discuss success of each rotation with manager and mentors. Broaden internal network.
- Assist with exceeding customer expectations working with the department heads to achieve 80% operational uptime in support of delivering product to the customer that meets quality standards and is delivered on time and within budget.
- Apply continuous improvement principles throughout production, and within functional teams of rotation. Utilize key performance indicators to measure improvements and to monitor their success. Through front-line engagement and technical support, provide informed supervision of operations, production, and maintenance departments (according to assigned rotation). Foster development of high performance work teams in assigned rotation. Strive to instill operator ownership throughout all operations. Stay quality focused in all areas.
- Ensure adherence to all Personal Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Environmental Policies and Practices. Drive continuous improvement efforts throughout operations. Strive for "Right the first time".
- Lead cost savings projects by consulting with different departments on areas of opportunity. Provide suggestions on new methodologies and equipment to increase production efficiency and lower the cost per case by eliminating causes of downtime. Work with vendors to ensure efficient and effective spending on parts, equipment and supplies.
- Assist in the development and ongoing updates of Work Instructions and processes. Assist facility with safety, quality and performance initiatives to achieve tangible goals such as cost per case.
