Assistant Plant Manager

Assistant Plant Manager

Cheers to creating an incredible tomorrow! At Molson Coors, we tackle big challenges and defy the status quo. With a proud legacy of excellence, an incredible portfolio of beer, seltzers, spirits, and non-alcohol brands, and a bold vision for our future... we're on the path to transforming the beverage industry. That requires remarkable individuals who are curious, tenacious, and never afraid to fail forward.

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Here's to crafting careers and creating new legacies.

Crafted Highlights: As the Assistant Plant Manager working in Wheat Ridge, CO you will ensure the proper facilitation of the team culture across all functional and cross functional disciplines of operations within the facility. You will implement and refine improvement opportunities to maximize the performance of the total operations. Additionally, you'll ensure that all Company policy, legislative, safety, environmental and quality required standards are implemented as appropriate and adhered to by all team members. This role leads instruction over the plant furnace(s) to achieve the KPIs (Safety, Quality, Productivity, Flexibility, and Cost) in line with Plant Objectives. We look to this position to provide continuous improvement principles in all areas of responsibility – technical, quality, safety, environment, financial, people. Additionally, this role ensures adequate resources from both internal and external service departments to ensure high performance and equipment reliability. This position is vital as it serves as the industry expert and leads as the plants technical resource/knowledge base regarding glass. It is the responsibility of this person to stay connected with the latest learning(s) from our O-I partners and cascade accordingly to RMBC. This role is essential for the overall success of the partners.

What You'll Be Brewing: Glass Manufacturing & Technical Leadership

• Advanced familiarity with glass manufacturing operations, including batch & furnace, forming, hot end, cold end, inspection, and finished goods handling.
• Deep understanding of continuous process manufacturing, including furnace performance, forming stability, defect generation, and yield optimization.
• Ability to lead through complex, high-temperature assets where uptime, quality, and safety are tightly coupled.

Quality, Reliability & Performance

• Strong working knowledge of glass quality systems, including AOQ/ISO-based controls, defect analysis, and customer quality performance.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze operating data and identify trends impacting quality, cost, reliability, or customer service.
• Strong understanding of asset reliability principles (Capability, Availability, Reliability, Enhancement) as applied to furnaces, forming machines, and inspection systems.

Operations Execution & Improvement

• Thorough knowledge of production planning and forecasting in a continuous manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to develop and execute process improvement plans, including technology upgrades, operator skill development, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Ability to apply structured root-cause analysis and problem-solving across technical, quality, and people-related issues.

People, Safety & Compliance

• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple departments, develop technical talent, and reinforce accountability.
• Demonstrated understanding of OSHA regulations, plant safety standards, environmental compliance, and employee relations practices applicable to glass manufacturing.
• Ability to set priorities, create structure, and lead effectively through operational challenges and production disruptions.

Key Ingredients

• Minimum of ten years in a leadership position managing multiple departments in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of glass industry experience with proven management and continuous improvement skills
• Ability to analyze data and recognize detrimental trends that could impact the company through increased costs, potential regulatory issues, or risk management exposure
• Flexibility to respond to frequent changes in production requirements and or systems and equipment failures
• Ability to provide basic scheduling and technical support during preventative maintenance activities, including expendable refractory replacement, combustion filter replacement, burner maintenance, and mechanism replacement

Beverage Bonuses

• We care about our People and Planet and have challenged ourselves with stretch goals around our key priorities.
• We care about our communities and play our part to make a difference – from charitable donations to hitting the streets together to build parks, giving back to the community is part of our culture and who we are.
• Engagement with a variety of Business Resource Groups, which can provide volunteer opportunities, leadership experience, and networking through the organization.
• Ability to grow and develop your career centered around our First Choice Learning opportunities.
• Participation in our Total Rewards program with a competitive base salary, incentive plans, parental leave, health, dental, vision, retirement plan options with incredible employer match, generous paid time off plans, an engaging Wellness Program, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with amazing resources.
• On site Pub, access to cool brand clothing and swag, top events and, of course... free beer and beverages!
• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Applications will be accepted on an on-going basis.

Molson Coors is an equal opportunity employer. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruitment processes, please e-mail View email address on click.appcast.io.

Pay and Benefits: At Molson Coors, we're committed to paying people fairly and equitably for the work they do.

Job Posting Total Rewards Offerings: $126,500.00 - $166,000.00 (posting salary range) + 15% target short term incentive + $23,000 on average spent on benefits per employee, including but not limited to health, dental, vision, retirement with above market employer match, wellness incentives and EAP + paid time off (including holidays, vacation days and sick days).

The posting range provided above for salary is what we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We ultimately pay based on a number of non-discriminatory factors that inform pay decisions including but not limited to the required work location, previous work experience, skill set and internal equity.