Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for leading all operations within a single manufacturing facility. This role oversees production, safety, quality, maintenance, and shipping to ensure efficient, cost-effective, and high-performing plant operations. The Plant Manager provides leadership to the site and works cross-functionally to support company goals for safety, delivery, cost, and continuous improvement.

Daily Management

• Lead and manage all day-to-day operations of the plant, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity targets are met.
• Ensure a safe working environment for all employees. Minimize the impact of operations to the Environment and comply with all external and internal Environmental requirements. Managing and maintaining relationships with customers and aligning the organization to meet the customer requirements with efficiency.
• Responsibility for the achievement of the KPI's including financial performance of the facility as well as the functional responsibilities of each Staff/Department Manager.

Strategy

• Development of short and long term operating and business plans that align and contribute to the Region and Company goals and objectives. Accurate planning, forecasting, analysis of variances, and implementation of corrective actions to achieve planned results.
• Management of a Plant Staff of direct reports to align responsibilities and expectations to Regional and Company goals and value system.
• Manage plant budgets, headcount, and resource planning to support business demands
• Collaborate with engineering, supply chain, HR, and quality to drive plant-wide initiatives.

Lean Management System

• Mentoring the Plant Staff of direct reports in the use of lean principles and ensuring the use and continued development of these throughout the organization and facility.
• Applying an 80/20 lens when driving lean tools on the production processes that includes segmentation, simplification and empowerment to the teams Creating a Lean shop floor and expanding a continuous improvement culture to achieve improvement in targeted results.
• Manage the quality output of the manufacturing and business processes with the ability to meet targets or modify activity and behavior if off target.
• Establishment and management of standardized work throughout the salaried and hourly organization to reduce variability and improve efficiency in all aspects of the business.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively at all levels of the organization including written, verbal, and presentation techniques.
• Actively participate in all aspects of employee relations including managing the employee handbook, establishing skill requirements throughout the organization, development of employee skills, assessment of performance and behavior through regular utilization of the Performance & Development Process (PDP), and address required changes to meet performance targets.
• Represent the company as the local top executive, active participation in community affairs, organizational participation in civic affairs and associations, adherence to local, state, federal, and corporate laws and guidelines, and maintaining positive public relations in the community, achieve and continue a positive image externally and internally.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, regulatory standards, and environmental guidelines.
• Support talent development and performance management of plant employees.
• Foster a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Other job duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related field.
• 7+ years of manufacturing experience, with at least 3 years in a plant or operations leadership role.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive measurable improvements in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with lean manufacturing, 5S, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.
• ERP experience and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite