Lead a High-Performing Manufacturing Business Unit at Danone

At Danone, we're committed to bringing health through food to as many people as possible. As a leader in the food and beverage industry, we manufacture some of the world's most recognized brands while fostering a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

We're seeking an experienced Business Unit Leader to join our Dallas, Texas beverage manufacturing facility. In this highly visible leadership role, you'll partner closely with senior plant leadership to drive performance, develop frontline leaders, and lead a large-scale manufacturing operation focused on safety, quality, delivery, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

As the Business Unit Leader, you'll have responsibility for leading and developing a team of operational leaders while driving exceptional performance across your manufacturing area.

You will:

• Champion a world-class safety culture and help create an accident-free workplace.
• Lead, coach, and develop multiple leaders and supervisors to achieve plant and business objectives.
• Build and execute strategic plans that support operational goals and annual business targets.
• Drive manufacturing excellence through continuous improvement and operational best practices.
• Lead problem-solving efforts using Lean, Continuous Improvement, and Integrated Work Systems (IWS) methodologies.
• Improve productivity, efficiency, quality, and cost performance across the business unit.
• Partner with plant leadership to ensure consistent execution of operational priorities.
• Support talent development by coaching leaders in servant leadership principles and team engagement.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and high performance.

Physical Demands 
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Work Environment

• Work is performed in a manufacturing environment with exposure to moderate noise and temperature variations.
• Work schedules could include nights, weekends and/or holidays to provide the ability to support a 24/7 manufacturing environment as business needs dictate.  

Engagement in our Integrated Work Systems
Ensure adherence to plant standards and procedures (including but not limited to GMP, AIB, FDA, IWS, Quality, Safety, Finance, ISO, HOPE, Danone Behaviors, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE). As a fundamental piece of the organization, your responsibility is to participate and own the implementation and deployment of IWS system and its pillars (Leadership foundation, Daily Direction Setting, Driving OE; Autonomous Maintenance; planned Maintenance; Focused Improvement; Education and Training; Environmental, Health and Safety; Quality; Organization; Supply Network; Early Equipment Management) with the objective of owning your space, owning your performance (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Mobilization, Nature) and owning your continuous improvement.    

Compensation & Benefits:
Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options.   

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 8+ years of manufacturing experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience within a high-speed food, beverage, or consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience leading teams in a complex manufacturing operation.
• Strong operational, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work flexible schedules as needed to support 24/7 plant operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business Management, Food Science, or a related field.
• Experience within dairy, food, or beverage manufacturing.
• Experience with beverage processing, production systems, and aseptic manufacturing environments.
• Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, or Integrated Work Systems (IWS) experience.

Danone U.S. is part of Danone North America, a purpose-driven company and an industry leader in the food and beverage category. You’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world. Our strong portfolio of brands includes: Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Follow Your Heart®, Happy Family® Organics, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Nutricia ®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free,  STōK® Cold Brew Coffee ®, Too Good & Co™, and YoCrunch®. 

With approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., Danone North America's mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible. 

You’ll be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world, working to make sure our company creates real value for people and the planet. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.

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