Plant Manager

Overview

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Plant Manager to lead our manufacturing operations with energy and precision. In this pivotal role, you will oversee all aspects of plant performance, ensuring production efficiency, quality standards, and safety protocols are consistently met. Your leadership will drive continuous improvement initiatives, optimize manufacturing processes, and foster a culture of excellence across the facility. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated professional passionate about manufacturing management and operational excellence to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Summary of Essential Job Functions:

• Provide leadership to ensure that all employees and suppliers are contributing to meeting customer quality requirements.
• Identify and implement employee training needs from operator through supervisor job codes in order to achieve extreme customer focus mind set, monitoring of process parameters’ effecting part quality and measurement and inspection of parts as applicable at the press in order to achieve production responsibility for part quality.
• Initiate continuous improvement teams and corrective actions to prevent occurrences of internal/external nonconformance relating to product quality.
• Evaluate and improve manufacturing methods via automation, work force utilization, workflow design, etc. in order to significantly reduce overall manufacturing cost.
• Provide production support requirements for the development of the automotive, packaging and consumer/industrial business groups.
• Provide input in development and implementation of Work Cells including layout, staffing, salary rates and method of operation in order to achieve highly efficient, customer focused, self-directed teams.
• Maintain compliance to requirements in order to achieve no findings during the six month audits.
• Achieve and maintain 90%+ press up time and meet/exceed quoted cycle while maintaining quality levels meeting customer requirements.
• Maintain continuous review of productivity on a daily basis and evaluate profitability of each job on a work order basis through a job costing system.
• Maintain a safe work environment through improved housekeeping and meeting all regulatory requirements as OSHA.
• Maintain superior communication with key vendors and all levels of QP personnel.
• Provide leadership for interdepartmental success.
• Hire and if necessary, terminate employees.
• Define and address equipment, facilities and personnel requirements to meet customer Requirements.
• Develop and implement employee training/development programs to improve knowledge level of all employee job code levels in order to achieve production responsibility for part quality.
• Initiate corrective actions to prevent the occurrence of internal/external nonconformance relating to product quality.

Minimum Requirements:

• Technical college degree or minimum of 8-10 years of operations/quality experience.
• Self-motivated
• High oral and written skills.
• Leadership and training skills.
• Understanding and awareness of thermoplastic injection molding and/or blow molding.

Abilities Required:

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Possesses the verbal and written skills to effectively train new hires and temporary employees.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Pay: $95,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person