Plant Manager

Job Description
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 
The Plant Manager is responsible for all daily operations of the plant including production, planning, inventory management, production control, shipping, and communications cross-functional and to customers.  This role is the site leader and ensures company policies and procedures are followed across the plant. The plant manager is responsible to develop and integrate processes that will improve performance in safety, quality, cost, and customer delivery.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Drive safety performance in the plant by engaging all team members in identifying, analyzing, and taking actions to reduce risks
Plan, organize, direct and drive optimum day-to-day operations performance to exceed our internal and customers’ expectations
Increase production efficiencies, asset utilization, capacity when needed, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining or improving on current quality standards
Be 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 current strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus to the plant team in alignment with those initiatives
Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions when defects or incidents occur
Share a trusting relationship with workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff
Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime to drive projects and actions to reduce waste
Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets and resources
Address employees’ issues or grievances and ensure the plant morale is good while protecting the interests of the company and our customers