Manufacturing Plant Manager

Plant Manager Plant Office Reports To: Director, Operations Travel: Up to 10% The Plant Manager role is responsible for the overall management and direction of the day-to-day business operations, ensuring sales and production objectives are met at the lowest cost consistent with product quality requirements, while maintaining high safety standards and ensuring all legal and regulatory compliance. Develops business plans, budgets, and staffing requirements to support growth to annual sales volumes through delegating authority to key direct reports and utilizing inputs from cross-functional peers. Strong production floor presence. Responsible for managing the site safety and environmental compliance programs and for ensuring that all employees adhere to these policies, including basic housekeeping and 5S. Direct functional responsibility for safety, quality, production scheduling, production, maintenance, tooling, and engineering. Demonstrated proficiency in P&L statement analysis and with budget responsibility of driving year-over-year cost reductions. Coordinates development of long and short-range plans with corporate operations staff including annual budgets and strategic plans. Must possess and effectively apply intellect, judgment, and management skills to achieve desired business performance results. Determines facility policies consistent with corporate policies and directs/supervises the application of these policies for the site, while working in concert with onsite cross-functional peers. Ensure compliance with the production schedule to meet or exceed customer service requirements. May have direct contact with customers on complaints and service matters as required. Carefully prepare, review and forward for approval all requests for capital equipment consistent with Company policy. Works closely with cross-functional peers in Sales, Customer Care, Quality and Human Resources to support local and Company-wide business initiatives. Responsible for the site’s ISO and/or Quality Management Program. Direct oversight of plant maintenance program, including preventative maintenance program, critical spare parts inventory, plant systems room and overall equipment reliability. Ensure all personnel matters, including salary actions and disciplinary actions, are dealt with in a timely and appropriate manner and in accordance with Company policy. Represents the Company in the community and promotes the Company's goodwill and interest in community activities. Responsible for site compliance for both internal and external regulatory requirements in safety, health, and environment Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education Requirement/Work Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in business administration, operational management or other technical disciplines; formal training in at least one continuous improvement discipline (i.e. Lean or Six Sigma).
• 5+ years leadership experience in industrial manufacturing operations with proven track record for high performance results.
• Experience with foam molding or shaping operations is preferred.
• Manufacturing industry experience preferred.

Computer Skills To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient with Microsoft Office -- MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; proficiency in use of Quality Systems, ERP (NetSuite preferred) & MRP systems. Accountability – We take full responsibility for our actions and outcomes, ensuring transparency and trust with our stakeholders, customers, associates, and the environment. Competencies: Problem Solving, Decision Making, Planning & Organizing, Resilience, Time Management/Prioritization and Learning Agility Adaptability – We embrace change agility and resilience, staying flexible and proactive in a constantly evolving world. Caring – We prioritize the well-being of our people, communities, and business partners, recognizing that their success and happiness are vital to our own. Competencies: Organizational Savvy, Risk Management, Compliance, Diversity, and Empathy Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work environment is typical of most manufacturing environments. This document in no way states or implies that this is as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required and personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from, any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper.