About Divert

Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Founded in 2007, the company provides an end-to-end solution that leverages data to prevent waste, facilitates edible food recovery to provide to people in need, and transforms unsold food products into renewable energy to power communities. Through this integrated approach to reducing wasted food–Prevent, Provide, Power™–Divert works with customers across the U.S. to reduce wasted food and positively impact people and the environment.

Divert's Integrated Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Plant receives unsold food from clients, analyzes the content, separates the packaging from the organics that can then be digested, ultimately processing the mixed liquor through our anaerobic digestion tank. The end result is RNG sold to the local natural gas pipeline and a reduction in waste going to a landfill.

What you'll do:

The Plant Director serves as the strategic and operational leader of Divert’s RNG facility, reporting to the Vice President of Operations. This role combines hands-on leadership with long-term strategic direction to support the company’s continued growth. The Plant Director is responsible for fostering a strong safety and quality culture, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and advancing operational excellence across all functions. By leading and developing site leadership and staff, optimizing plant performance, and driving financial and operational objectives, the Plant Director ensures stable, efficient, and reliable facility operations while identifying continuous improvement and value-capture opportunities.

Responsibilities

Safety and Quality Management:

• Proactive approach to creating a safe work environment through culture, training, and risk identification/mitigation.
• Unwavering commitment to quality, customer focused approach to deliver product safely, on time and above standard.
• Regular engagement of regional safety and quality teams to continuously grow our local site quality and safety programs.
• Ensures the plant’s production and sanitation practices comply with all company standards and government regulations.
• Champions a culture that enhances safety, product quality, and environmental stewardship.

Operations:

• Leads, hires, mentors, and develop site leadership (Maintenance Manager, Assistant Plant Manager, Shift Supervisors) and hourly staff through regular training, coaching, and accountability.
• Oversees all aspects of facility operations - collaborates cross-functionally with Maintenance, Transportation, CI, Tech, Engineering, Safety, Quality, Finance, and Customer Success to drive stable, efficient, and profitable plant operations.
• Systems based approach – SOPs, Standard Work, Shift Handoff, Training and Development. Partners with cross-functional support to deploy best practices within the facility.
• Develop, implement and report against financial and non-financial objectives, including annual budget, financial forecasts, operational goals, key performance indicators, and operating plans.
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce plant operating costs and increase throughput.
• Develops, leads, and executes plans for value capture.
• Budget development, oversight, and leadership to achieve financial objectives and KPI targets.
• Drives reliability best practices and continuously improves site reliability and run rates.
• Operational excellence – data accuracy, productivity, efficiency, resource utilization.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or operations management is preferred
• 5+ years in an operations management role with hiring and people management
• 5+ years in continuous (24/7) industrial processing operations
• Proven ability to lead, engage, and motivate hourly and salary teams.
• Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, organizational/planning abilities, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation and support the operation team on nights and weekends as needed.
• Proven experience adapting to new challenges and learning quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Empowered, autonomous, servant leader
• Ability to work autonomously with a high level of initiative and priority setting.
• Ability to travel up to 10% annually

What's In It for You?

• Compensation range: $165,000-190,000 / Year + 20% target bonus
• Health, Vision and Dental Benefits (effective the first of the month following your date of hire!)
• Life Insurance
• 401K
• Paid Time Off
• Opportunities for Advancement with a Rapidly Growing, Mission-Driven Organization

Divert Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.