Plant Manager - Food Manufacturing - IA
Cube Management · Des Moines, IA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $120k–$150k
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Cube Management (industrial) in Des Moines, IA. Provide overall leadership, direction and coordination for plant operations.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- DOE, FDA / GMP, Casting
- Base pay
- $120k–$150k
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Iowa: typical posted base $120k–$159k. This one lists $120k–$150k.
Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 13 production engineer openings in Iowa, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Iowa plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 12 other live production postings in Iowa.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 54%
- EHS / safety 38%
- ✓ FDA / GMP 23%
- TPM 23%
- Cost reduction 23%
- PLC 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for DOE, Casting, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Cube Management
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Full description from Cube ManagementAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Provide overall leadership, direction and coordination for plant operations.
- ◆Ensure adherence to all safety policies and procedures promoting a world-class safety culture.
- ◆Ensure all plant personnel are operating in compliance with plant and corporate procedures as well as compliance with customer and governmental regulations.
- ◆Identify and implement strategies to improve performance, meeting and exceeding plant KPIs.
- ◆Provide coaching and development of plant staff to insure effective leadership, collaboration and balance in achieving KPIs focused on safety, quality, customer service and productivity.
- ◆Monitor and set standards for operations and help identify and correct bottlenecks.
- ◆Increase production asset capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs.
- ◆Plan and supervise the design and progress of capital projects.
- ◆Develops and implements financial and non-financial objectives including annual budget that serves as the plants operating plan.
- ◆Adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions & ensure product quality is maintained.
- ◆Responsible for Food Safety and Food Quality of MFI products.
- ◆Identify and address conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor's degree required.
- ✓Experience managing a facility with 400+ employees in the food industry required.
- ✓Demonstrated track record of achieving results against a comprehensive set of KPIs.
- ✓Excellent problem solving and reasoning skills required.
- ✓Ability to analyze downtime and financial variance trends, identifying actions to deliver expected performance.
- ✓Adequate knowledge of organizational effectiveness and operations management.
- ✓Working knowledge of budgets, forecasting and metrics.
- ✓Ability to effectively present information to all levels of the company; plant floor to executive leadership.
- ✓Excellent time management, and strong attention to detail, verbal and written communication skills, listening, decision-making, and organization skills required.
- ✓Excellent interpersonal skills needed, including coaching, team-building and training skills
Base Salary: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00 (DOE)
Location: Near Des Moines, IA
Full Benefits: Yes
Relocation Expense: Yes
Number of Openings: 1
If you wish to be part of this successful and vibrant organization, please email a MS Word version of your resume to recruiting2505@cubemanagement.com. This company is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.
Cube Management is a global recruiting and consulting firm that helps companies accelerate their sales, by providing the top-level talent they need to grow their business. Cube Management is a leading recruiting and consulting partner to emerging growth, mid-market and global companies in the technology, manufacturing, healthcare, consumer package goods and business service sectors. We work across the spectrum of Operations, Sales, Marketing, Safety, Engineering, Accounting and Business Development, providing holistic solutions that drive revenue and profit success. Cube Management combines Strategy, Process and People, to produce great results.
For a complete listing of our current job listings please visit http://cubemanagement.com/candidates/job-listings
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