The Feedmill Manager is responsible for the overall management and performance of the animal feed manufacturing facility, ensuring safe, efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality production. The role oversees feedmill operations from raw material receiving and processing through finished feed production, storage, and dispatch.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the feedmill, ensuring production targets, quality standards, and delivery requirements are consistently achieved.
- Manage the complete manufacturing process, including raw material receiving, grinding, batching, mixing, pelleting/extrusion, cooling, packing, storage, and dispatch, as applicable.
- Develop and implement production plans and schedules based on demand, inventory, and capacity.
- Monitor plant capacity, productivity, yield, downtime, material utilization, and overall equipment effectiveness.
- Analyze production performance and identify opportunities to improve productivity, yield, process reliability, and operating efficiency.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce waste, downtime, energy consumption, and manufacturing costs.
- Ensure proper process controls and standard operating procedures are implemented and consistently followed.
- Drive optimization of feedmill processes, equipment utilization, and manpower deployment.
- Coordinate closely with Engineering/Maintenance to ensure the reliability and availability of feedmill machinery and equipment.
- Ensure preventive and corrective maintenance programs are effectively implemented.
- Monitor equipment breakdowns, downtime, and maintenance costs and initiate appropriate corrective actions.
- Ensure raw materials and finished feeds meet established quality and nutritional specifications.
- Work closely with QA/QC, R&D, and Nutrition teams to maintain product quality and consistency.
- Ensure compliance with GMP, HACCP, feed safety, sanitation, biosecurity, and other applicable standards and regulations.
- Oversee the proper handling, storage, and utilization of raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, and finished feeds.
- Monitor inventory levels and coordinate with Procurement, Warehouse, and Planning teams to prevent production interruptions.
- Minimize material losses, wastage, and inventory variances.
- Prepare and manage the feedmill operating budget.
- Monitor manufacturing costs, material consumption, labor costs, utilities, maintenance expenses, and other operating expenditures.
- Lead, supervise, and develop feedmill personnel, including production, operations, and technical teams.
- Establish performance objectives and monitor individual and team KPIs.
- Ensure employees are properly trained in production processes, equipment operation, quality, and safety requirements.
- Ensure strict compliance with company HSE policies and applicable occupational safety and environmental regulations.
- Promote a strong safety culture and maintain a safe, clean, and organized manufacturing environment.
- Ensure all required operational, quality, safety, and regulatory records are maintained.
- Work closely with Procurement, QA/QC, R&D/Nutrition, Engineering, Warehouse, Logistics, and Commercial teams to ensure smooth feedmill operations.
- Provide management with regular reports on production performance, costs, quality, capacity, equipment reliability, and improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, related field.
- At least 8–10 years of experience in feedmill, animal feed, pet food, or other closely related manufacturing operations.
- At least 3–5 years in a managerial or plant leadership role.
- Strong knowledge of feed manufacturing processes, machinery, production systems, and plant operations.
- Experience in continuous improvement, process optimization, cost reduction, and productivity improvement.
- Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, feed safety, occupational safety, and regulatory compliance.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Willing to be based in or travel to the assigned feedmill facility.
