Plant Manager

Reidsville, NC

Full time

R20238

Location Address:

606b Walters Street, Reidsville, North Carolina 27320

Work Shift:

Salary Exempt (United States of America)

Envision Plastics, a division of Altium Packaging that manufactures differentiated post-consumer recycled polyolefin plastics used in a wide range of consumer products, is seeking a highly capable and results-driven Plant Manager to lead its Reidsville, North Carolina manufacturing facility. This role is a high-impact leadership position with direct accountability for safety, people, operations, service, and financial performance.

This is an opportunity for the successful candidate to lead a strategically important recycled resin manufacturing operation within a growing business. The Plant Manager will drive operational excellence and play a strategic role in strengthening organizational capability in support of Envision’s and Altium’s growth strategy. As a member of the division’s leadership team, the Plant Manager will have high visibility across the enterprise, broad leadership responsibility, and the opportunity to shape plant culture, capability, and performance while delivering sustained business results. This role is well suited for a proven manufacturing leader who is energized by building teams, driving continuous improvement, and expanding into broader operational leadership over time.

Responsibilities

• Champion a strong safety culture, ensuring safe behaviors, compliance, and proactive risk identification (including SIF prevention focus)

• Model leadership behaviors and build a high-performance, accountable culture that drives engagement and continuous improvement

• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing team, including coaching, performance management, and succession planning aligned with Altium’s Guiding Principles

• Translate Envision’s growth strategy into clear plant-level priorities and lead execution of annual operating plans

• Drive measurable improvements in safety, quality, service, cost, and reliability using lean principles and strong daily management systems

• Strengthen the plant’s quality system and culture to enhance process resiliency and customer confidence

• Lead production planning and execution to consistently meet customer commitments

• Ensure best-in-class maintenance practices (predictive and preventive) to maximize asset reliability

• Optimize inventory management (raw materials, WIP, finished goods) to support service, working capital, and operational efficiency

• Improve plant cost performance and efficiency through disciplined continuous improvement and proactive identification/resolution of operational inefficiencies

• Lead development and execution of capital plans aligned with growth, capability expansion, and long-term performance

• Strengthen customer focus through active partnership with commercial teams and direct engagement with customers as appropriate

• Support and advance customer-driven innovation and division-level solutions initiatives

• Ensure compliance with safety, quality (GMP), environmental, and HR policies and standards

• Drive economic sustainability improvement initiatives, e.g., waste reduction, landfill diversion, utilities usage efficiency improvements

• Partner cross-functionally (commercial, sourcing, technology, customer service) to drive integrated business outcomes

• Collaborate with the Chino, CA plant to standardize best practices, share learnings, and maximize Envision’s overall performance

• Support enterprise systems and digital enablement initiatives (e.g., ERP upgrades) to improve operational effectiveness

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering, industrial management, or related field

• 8+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience in lean environments

• Prior Plant Manager / Operations leadership experience in a complex manufacturing setting

• Experience in recycling, extrusion, or similarly process-intensive operations

• Demonstrated success developing talent and leading change

• Strong financial and operational management experience (including capital planning)

• Experience working with ERP systems

• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills

• Proficiency in MS Office applications

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

Preferred:

• Experience leading growth or expansion capital projects

• Experience with ERP implementations or major systems upgrades

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or Master’s)

• Reasonable mandatory overtime may be required due to business needs.

Altium Packaging, Our Culture Differentiates Us! We incorporate our Guiding Principles into all aspects and at all levels of the organization and use them as a framework for decision-making. We believe our Guiding Principles foster a culture of excellence that benefits both employees and customers.

Our Guiding Principles

• Act with Integrity & in Compliance

• Drive Value Creation

• Be Disciplined Entrepreneurs

• Focus on the Customer

• Act with Humility

• Treat others with Dignity and Respect

• Seeking Fulfillment in your Work

We Believe in Rewarding our Most Important Resource – Our People! We show our commitment to Total Rewards by providing a competitive, comprehensive benefits package. In addition to medical, dental and vision plans, company holidays and vacation days, tuition reimbursement, learning and training opportunities, bonus potential, and a 401(k) plan with company contributions, Altium Packaging locations offer rewards and recognition programs and opportunities to make a difference in the community.

EEO Statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Take your career to the next level at Altium Packaging!

We are the National Leader in a Stable, Growing Industry!

Altium Packaging is a leading developer and manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging solutions in North America. We serve a diverse customer base in the dairy, household chemicals, food/nutraceuticals, industrial/specialty chemicals, water, pharmaceuticals, and beverage/juice segments.

With a network of more than 70 rigid plastic packaging manufacturing facilities, two recycled resins facilities, and 4,000 employees, Altium Packaging has an integrated network that consistently delivers reliable and cost-effective packaging and recycled resin solutions to meet the needs of a wide range of customers. From its state-of-the art Studio PKG™, to the recycling technologies of Envision Plastics, to its experienced manufacturing teams across its network, Altium Packaging delivers high performance, cost-effective solutions.