About Thai Union Group:
Thai Union is a global leader in seafood and nutrition, serving customers in more than 120 markets worldwide. Headquartered in Thailand and employing over 44,000 people globally, we are driven by a shared purpose: healthy living and healthy oceans through innovation, sustainability, and responsible growth.
About the Role:
We are looking for a strong Plant Lead to oversee end-to-end plant operations in Seychelles or Ghana. This role is ideal for an experienced manufacturing leader with strong plant operations capability who can drive operational excellence, cost efficiency, safety, quality, and people leadership across a complex production environment.
Work Location: Initial work location will be Thailand for approximately 6 months before relocating to Seychelles or Ghana.
Main purpose of the role:
- Strategic results: Drive strategic & tactical decisions including production improvement initiatives roadmap and align resources to deliver key functional objectives in alignment with TU strategic goals
- Best-in-class manufacturing: Oversee and create best-in-class Ambient production, ensure high standards of operations and adoption of best-practices across all plant functions
- Financial results: Own and manage end-to-end performance of the plant, optimize for cost while maintaining effective production, on-time delivery at right quantity of goods with high-quality standards
- Effective collaboration: Facilitate collaboration across functional heads for critical activities; take accountability and ensure effective coordination between operational functions (Production, Maintenance, Quality, etc.) and all supporting functions (Logistics, Purchasing, etc.)
- People & leadership: Motivate, lead and challenge team members to reach / exceed targets and objectives. Improve and sustain employee engagement scores to be within the top quartile. Develop strong internal leadership pipeline and set positive working culture with teams across Thai Union
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead overall plant performance, including production, maintenance, quality, warehouse, logistics, facilities, and SHE operations
- Translate business strategy, productivity roadmaps, and KPI targets into clear operational plans and measurable actions
- Drive best-in-class manufacturing practices, continuous improvement, cost optimization, on-time delivery, and right-first-time quality
- Ensure compliance with food safety, quality, customer, environmental, health, and safety standards
- Strengthen cross-functional collaboration between operations and support functions such as logistics, purchasing, HR, finance, and commercial teams
- Lead, coach, and develop plant leadership teams while building a strong local talent pipeline and positive working culture
- Manage plant budgets, operational risks, performance variance, and corrective actions to deliver sustainable business results
What We Are Looking For:
- Strong knowledge and experience in production and manufacturing processes, and ability to establish and maintain operations standards and guidelines
- Experience in identifying and facilitating continuous improvement initiatives and implementing new technologies to improve manufacturing processes, equipment, and utilities
- Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information to team members, stakeholders, and upper management
- Strong leadership skills, including the ability to motivate and lead teams, build a diverse and trust-based leadership team, and develop local talent
- Experience in fostering a culture of continuous learning and development to enhance employee skills and competencies
- Strong interpersonal skills to foster a culture of collaboration and effectively drive cross-functional collaborations
- Thai & English language proficiency are required.
Why Join Us:
This is a unique opportunity to take on a high-impact international leadership role, shape plant performance, build strong local teams, and contribute directly to business growth across our global manufacturing network.
