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Planetary Recovery Manager
Position Summary
The Planetary Recovery Manager sets the strategic direction for the department and advances the organization’s long-term goals. This role ensures products are produced on time, in the correct quantities, and to established quality standards. The manager leads production activities across operations, engineering, maintenance, and projects to optimize product flow and departmental performance.
Key Responsibilities:
People Leadership and Employee Relations
- Model the Novonesis Leadership Principles and ensure employees have the information and resources needed to perform their responsibilities.
- Coach and develop employees based on individual needs and job responsibilities, with a focus on technical expertise and leadership capability.
- Build a team aligned with the Novonesis Cultural Commitments and identify successors and employees with potential for greater responsibility.
- Ensure compliance with global, regional, and local employee relations policies.
- Partner with P&O to recruit employees for the manufacturing organization.
- Apply effective conflict management practices to foster a collaborative work environment.
What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role
- At least five years of experience in production and/or supply chain management.
- Proven people leadership experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of business and production processes.
- Strong analytical and financial skills.
- Experience leading in a continuous improvement environment using Lean practices and structured problem-solving.
- Apply pragmatic and creative thinking to solve problems.
- Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 5% of the time.
- Availability for occasional weekend and extended travel.
Additional skills & interests we value:
- Drive a Lean continuous improvement culture through performance management tools and structured problem-solving.
- Establish, own, and advance key departmental KPIs in support of the site’s mission.
- Monitor departmental performance against budgets and KPIs and connect global priorities with local goals to improve business performance.
- Ensure the plant complies with applicable state and federal safety regulations and Novonesis safety policies.
- Provide coaching and guidance to strengthen safety awareness and reduce accident risk.
- Maintain and improve the departmental quality system and ensure participation in audits and inspections, including follow-through on findings.
- Ensure NZNE complies with applicable food and feed requirements and maintains a strong food safety culture.
- Ensure the plant complies with applicable state and federal safety regulations and Novonesis safety policies.
- Maintain and improve the departmental quality system and ensure participation in audits and inspections, including follow-through on findings.
- Ensure NZNE complies with applicable food and feed requirements and maintains a strong food safety culture.
- As a member of the Environmental Steering Committee, provide direction for maintaining and improving the NZNE Environmental Management System, including conformity with ISO 14001, the Novonesis Environmental Policy, and relevant elements of the ICC Charter.
- Contribute to site environmental objectives that align with corporate sustainability goals.
Compensation & Benefits:
Application Deadline: August 28, 2026
- Expected base salary: $135,000–$155,000, depending on experience.
- 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution.
- A minimum of three weeks of vacation, 12 holidays, and two weeks of Wellness Time.
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Health savings account option.
- Employee assistance program.
- Parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- All benefits begin on your first day.
Our purpose guides the way
In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.
Opportunities for everyone
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.
We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.
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