Plant Manager

Leadership & Management

• Lead, coach, and develop plant leadership team, supervisors, and employees.


• Promote a culture of safety, teamwork, accountability, and operational excellence.


• Establish clear performance expectations and support employee development initiatives.


• Drive employee engagement and retention through effective communication and leadership.


• Manage workforce planning to ensure adequate staffing levels.


• Direct all manufacturing activities to achieve production, quality, and delivery objectives.


• Monitor and improve overall equipment effectiveness, productivity, and throughput.


• Lead daily plant performance reviews and production meetings.


• Ensure compliance with production schedules and customer requirements.


• Manage plant operating budgets and financial performance.


• Monitor labor, material, maintenance, and overhead costs.


• Lead continuous improvement efforts to reduce defects, waste, and customer complaints.


• Support new product introductions and process validation activities.

Safety, Health & Environmental (EHS)

• Champion a zero-incident safety culture.


• Ensure compliance with all OSHA, environmental, and company safety requirements.


• Lead safety audits, risk assessments, corrective actions, and incident investigations.


• Maintain compliance with local, provincial/state, and federal regulations.

Quality & Food Safety

• Ensure all products meet customer specifications and quality standards.


• Support and maintain quality management systems such as GMP, and customer-specific requirements.

Maintenance

• Provide direct leadership and oversight of the Maintenance functions.


• Ensure robust preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs are implemented and sustained.


• Maximize equipment uptime and reliability.


• Manage maintenance budgets, spare parts inventory, and contractor services.


• Collaborate with engineering teams on capital projects and equipment upgrades.

Qualifications, Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, Business, or related field preferred.


• Equivalent manufacturing or maintenance leadership experience will be considered.


• 8+ years of manufacturing leadership experience.


• Minimum 5 years managing a manufacturing facility or multiple departments.


• Experience in packaging, plastics, blown film extrusion, cast film extrusion, flexible packaging, or converting operations strongly preferred.


• Proven track record of improving safety, productivity, quality, and financial performance.


• Strong understanding of extrusion processes and packaging manufacturing operations.


• Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement expertise.


• Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems.


• Strong financial and business acumen.