Assistant Plant Manager

Assistant Plant Manager, Letterhead Press, LLC - New Berlin, WI

It’s time for you to give your 2026 a GREAT finish with a new career opportunity at Letterhead Press as an Assistant Plant Manager! Letterhead Press specializes in innovation, fine embossing, foil stamping, POP display, die cutting, fine box making, custom bindery, folding & gluing, and holographic applications.

This candidate will work with all Production, Customer Service, Purchasing, Quality, and Shipping. Having experience scheduling in the printing and bindery environment would be helpful.

This position requires a high energy, self-starter with excellent communication, both oral and written, a sense of urgency, great time management, regular attendance, ability to work well in a team environment, being organized, aggressive and detail oriented. This candidate will pave the road to success for our customers by embracing their internal colleagues and possessing all these key components! Having experience with Epicor AVP and SQF Certification would be a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly production schedules across printing, die cutting, finishing, and folding/gluing.
• Balance customer delivery requirements with equipment capacity, labor, materials, and production efficiencies.
• Monitor jobs throughout production and adjust schedules as conditions change.
• Identify capacity constraints and production bottlenecks before they impact customer commitments.
• Lead daily production planning meetings and communicate priorities to supervisors and department leads.
• Coordinate with Customer Service and Purchasing to ensure jobs are production-ready.
• Track schedule attainment, on-time delivery, throughput, downtime, and work-in-process.
• Support staffing, overtime, and resource planning based on production demand.
• Assist the Plant Manager with daily plant operations and employee accountability.
• Support 5S, lean manufacturing, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing, production planning, scheduling, or supervisory experience.
• Printing, folding carton, packaging, or converting experience preferred.
• Strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience with ERP/MIS scheduling systems preferred.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Key Measures of Success

• On-time delivery
• Production schedule attainment
• Equipment and labor utilization
• Reduced bottlenecks and downtime
• Improved workflow and throughput
• Effective management of work-in-process

We offer a total benefits package to include Health Insurance (two plans to choose from), HSA's, HRA's, Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent, Dental (two plans to choose from), Vision, Company paid life insurance and long term disability, Supplemental Life/AD & D, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, ten paid holidays, paid vacation, an onsite fitness center and an excellent Company matched 401(k) plan!

Job Type: Full-time

Expected hours: No less than 45.0 per week

Work Location: In person