Production and Plant Manager- Talent Pool (Portugal and Spain)

Job Description:

At Nutreco, we are always looking to connect with experienced operations leaders who are passionate about manufacturing excellence, people leadership, safety, and continuous improvement. By joining our Talent Pool, you'll be considered for future Plant Manager and Production Manager opportunities across our operations network in Spain and Portugal.

Why join our Talent Pool?

As a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed, we offer the opportunity to make a real impact on sustainable food production while leading high-performing manufacturing teams. Whether managing an entire plant or overseeing production operations, you will play a key role in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality manufacturing processes.

What could your future role involve?

• Leading manufacturing operations to ensure safety, quality, service, and cost targets are achieved.
• Managing production, maintenance, and operational performance within a manufacturing site.
• Developing and coaching teams to drive engagement and high performance.
• Ensuring compliance with Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality standards.
• Monitoring operational KPIs and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support business objectives and operational excellence.

What we're looking for:

• Experience in plant management, production management, manufacturing operations and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience within the feed, food, agricultural, or related manufacturing industries will be highly valued.
• Experience in team leadership.
• Fluent English is required, as the entire selection process, including interviews, will be conducted in English.
• Fluent Spanish or Portuguese.

Join our network

If you are interested in future Plant Manager or Production Manager opportunities with Nutreco, we encourage you to join our Talent Pool. Even if there is no current vacancy matching your profile, our Talent Acquisition team will review your experience and may contact you regarding future opportunities aligned with your background and career aspirations.

Together, we can contribute to Feeding the Future through safe, efficient, and sustainable manufacturing operations.

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Our organisation:
Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed. Our advanced nutritional solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Quality, innovation and sustainability are guiding principles, embedded in the Nutreco culture from research and raw material procurement to products and services for agriculture and aquaculture. Experience across 100 years brings Nutreco a rich heritage of knowledge and experience for building its future.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Nutreco is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Nutreco is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.