Securing Vital Executive Position for Food Production Facility

The Client

The client has over 60 years of experience in the food production and manufacturing industry. With high-speed operations and a dedicated research and development team, the client offers custom solutions to their food and beverage partners which can be implemented at scale.

Key Challenges

The client needed to fill a critical vacancy within their organization. Their Maintenance Manager, who oversaw a host of operations such as production and packaging, recently left the company – causing inefficiencies across production.

Filling this position came with its handful of difficulties. Since they’d be managing a significant, high-speed baking facility, the candidate needed to have extensive experience with large scale food manufacturing.  More specifically, the ideal candidate would have experience with industrial and ammonia refrigeration.

The client’s internal talent acquisition team was unable to find someone with proper skillset on their own. Thus, the organization turned to The Planet Group to help close the position.

The Solution

With an intimate knowledge of the industry and an extensive recruiting pipeline, Planet mobilized their team to identify and secure an appropriate candidate for the client. To further ensure they found the right fit, a Planet Account Manager went onsite to the client’s facility to get a sense of the scope of operations.

The Results

The client was able to secure and hire a qualified Maintenance Manager with staffing support from The Planet Group. This permanent placement will have a long term, positive impact on the organization. With this position filled, the client has been able to remedy earlier inefficiencies in production and better serve the partners in the food and beverage industry.