Our award-winning client is seeking a Plant Manager to join their team. As the Plant Operations Manager, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the daily operations of plant production, ensuring maximum capacity while adhering to financial controls. Your responsibilities include upholding quality and regulatory standards and developing processes to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and stewardship. Additionally, you may provide oversight to various plant-level functions such as accounting, maintenance, distribution, and administration. With comprehensive knowledge of the departmental function, you will set and approve policies to achieve broad functional objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Manage overall plant operations, including finance, manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, materials, quality assurance/control, human resources, and information systems.

• Align objectives within each function to achieve strategic business goals, emphasizing safety, quality, reliability, productivity, and people development.

• Provide leadership for employee relations through effective communication, coaching, training, and development to accomplish company goals and objectives.

• Cultivate a culture of high trust, clear metrics, leading indicators, ownership, and accountability.

• Ensure facility performance aligns with and achieves business objectives in safety, quality, productivity, and people development.

• Coordinate plant activities, and planning with departmental managers to accomplish manufacturing objectives and instill a culture of accountability.

• Optimize plant performance through strategic allocation of manpower, equipment, and resources.

• Set, measure, and maintain the highest standards for process, plant housekeeping, and safety.

• Foster a culture that includes an open, high-trust, learning environment.

• Ensure compliance with all regulatory standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Manufacturing equivalent.

• 8+ years of manufacturing experience with 5 years in operations leadership.

• Strongly preferred: Experience in glass manufacturing.

• Experience in a unionized environment.

• Expertise in change management, process improvement, and optimization.

• Proficient in managing operational budgets within a capital-intensive industry.

• Ability to lead in a way that builds trust and a passion for self and others' growth and development.

• Effective communication skills at all levels, from shop floor to executive leadership.

• Willingness to be accessible 24/7 to support facility needs.