Jon Foremsky

Jon Foremsky serves as Manufacturing Director at McCormick & Company, where he oversees manufacturing operations, engineering initiatives, and capital investment projects. His experience spans both day-to-day production leadership and large-scale operational improvements, helping ensure manufacturing facilities remain efficient, reliable, and well-positioned to support future growth.

Keeping Scale from Compromising Quality

Food manufacturing is a job that goes beyond just making a lot of food. People who buy food want it to taste the same every time they buy it no matter where it is made or where they buy it. So food manufacturing companies have to make sure their food is always the same.

Foremsky works with a team that sends food to people in more than 150 countries. His job is to help make sure the food is made in a way that's always the same even when things get tough. The food manufacturing company has to be very careful when they make food that people love to eat. If something goes wrong it can make people unhappy. And it is not about one day it is about all the years that people have been eating that food. Small problems can make a difference in how people feel about the food manufacturing company and the food they make.

Making Capital Investment Serve Production Needs

Manufacturing companies always try to balance modernization with production needs. They want equipment upgraded facilities and improved processes to work better and help them grow.They have to be careful when introducing these changes so they don't disrupt current operations.

Foremsky has a professional background that shows he managed big portfolios of over $100 million. He oversaw project managers and engineering leaders and his experience combines long-term investment choices with manufacturing issues. He deals with both investment decisions and daily manufacturing realities.

Manufacturing investments deliver value long after a project is completed. Equipment upgrades, process improvements, and facility enhancements must strengthen operational performance and support reliable production over the long term. Effective leaders evaluate how these investments influence productivity, workforce performance, and production continuity, ensuring that every decision contributes to sustainable operational success.

Balancing Reliability with Continuous Improvement

Manufacturing facilities operate under constant pressure to improve performance without disrupting established operations. Every process change carries potential consequences for efficiency, product quality and workforce coordination.

Foremsky’s responsibilities reflect this balance between stability and improvement. Manufacturing leaders are expected to identify opportunities for better performance while protecting the systems that already work effectively. The challenge is rarely finding ideas for improvement. The harder task is determining which improvements can create meaningful value without introducing unnecessary complexity.

This consideration becomes especially important within a company whose manufacturing network supports both consumer brands and food industry customers. Production facilities must respond to evolving demand while maintaining the standards required for food manufacturing.

McCormick’s global manufacturing footprint adds another layer of complexity. Facilities, engineering teams and production requirements must operate within a common framework despite differences in location, product mix and operational demands.

Foremsky’s work reflects a practical view of manufacturing leadership. Production success is often measured through what customers never notice: consistent quality, dependable availability and manufacturing systems that perform as expected. His role centers on creating the conditions that allow those outcomes to occur repeatedly across a large and complex manufacturing environment.