Chief Operating Officer COO - Urgent

Join Keystone Filler & Mfg. Co. as our new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and lead our plant operations to new heights. Salary commensurate with experience, plus health, dental, and vision insurance, paid vacation, 401K, and a bonus/incentive program are all part of the package. As COO, you'll oversee daily operations from manufacturing to shipping, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures while fostering a safe, positive, and productive workplace culture. Your responsibilities include optimizing production capacity, maintaining quality standards, and maximizing resource utilization. Collaborate closely with the CEO and management team to exceed customer expectations, implement strategic initiatives, and drive profitability. Ideal candidates will have proven experience as a Plant Manager / COO, strong managerial skills, and familiarity with industry standards. Apply now to lead our team to success!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The COO will oversee all daily operations of the plant from manufacturing to shipping while
ensuring policies and procedures are followed. This person will develop processes that will
continuously afford a safe working environment, positive workplace culture, the highest quality
of product, efficient productivity and profitability.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Include the following below and other duties
that may be assigned from time to time.
• Works closely with CEO and other management members to plan, organize direct and run
optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers expectations.
• Increase production capacity of assets and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and
maintaining/increasing current quality standards.
• Responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping.
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives to provide a clear sense of direction,
goals and focus on execution.
• Influence and manage personnel by mentoring and discipline with corrective actions, address
grievances, create a trusting relationship with employees to help develop plant staff and recruit new
employees.
• Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime.
• Commit to maintaining and constantly improving safe working environment.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and
performance targets to ensure effective return on assets utilizing the latest production management
best practices and concepts.
• Ensures that all sales contracts are being made competitively, but profitably. Ensures all
contracts detail; coordinate with operations staff to successfully fill scope of contract requirements.
• Sets and carries out a strategy to ensure that the needs of current customers are being
addressed while identifying additional sales & services that can be provided.
• Stays current on all product and service information available to enable them to be the subject
matter expert for our customers and prospects.
• Maintains a dependable work attendance record with extremely infrequent absences and/or
lateness.
• Demonstrate ability to be self driven, self starter, and work independently with little direct
oversight.
• Performs other special projects and duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability
required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to
perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
1. Proven work experience as a Plant Manager / COO preferably 5+ years
2. Proven managerial experience with knowledge of manufacturing and
management principles with the ability to lead by example, foster accountability,
build a strong culture and encourage decision making of supporting management.
3. Familiarity with industry standards equipment and technical expertise.
4. Be knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory and
stewardship processes.
COMPUTER/TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Must possess moderate level skills in the use of personal computers, Microsoft Office Suite
software, including Excel, Word and email, etc.
EQUIPMENT USAGE:
Preference for working knowledge and experience necessary to oversee the operation of plant
assets.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Must have ability to read and comprehend a basic level of instructions, create correspondence

and emails to both internal and external relations. Must possess ability to present information one-
on-one to customers, management and other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:
Must be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers,
common fractions, percentages and decimals.
REASONING ABILITY:
Must have ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations
where only limited standardization exists. Must have ability to interpret a variety of instructions
furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
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 use hands to fingers,
handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee frequently is
required to use repetitive motions, stand, walk and balance. The employee is occasionally
required to sit, talk and hear. The employee must regularly lift, carry and/or move up to 15
pounds, frequently lift and/or move 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The work environment is consistent with both an office, and manufacturing plant, where temperature
levels are variable, noise/dust levels can be high and the individual may be required to operate various
types of equipment, including driving to customer locations.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the
employee incumbent in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related
instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give
instructions or assignments.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the
performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and
requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with
disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities
to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of
knowledge, skills or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or
otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.