Responsibilities:

• Promote safety awareness and monitors safety programs and trends.
• Direct and controls all departmental activities consistent within plant goals, i.e., safety production, waste, scrap, and human relations while maintaining lowest costs for production.
• Ensure manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed all customer requirements for cost, quality, and responsiveness.
• Ensure key manufacturing metrics and key performance indicator systems are consistently tracking the appropriate measures and driving appropriate response behaviors.
• Ensure that proper standards of orderliness and cleanliness are maintained in areas of responsibility.
• Passionately drives continuous improvement culture.
• Build an exceptional team to deliver results and enhance employee engagement.
• Communicate effectively with site leaders, managers, and customers.
• Assist in developing short and long term strategies to reduce cost.
• Participate in and provide support for strategic projects.
• Be responsible for production output, product quality and on-time delivery.
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.
• Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions.
• Administer established policies for personnel performance rating, manpower forecasting, training, problem review and salary administration.
• Work closely with scheduler for daily and weekly scheduling to optimize plant performance.
• Assist with prioritizing engineering, maintenance and production improvement projects.
• Perform any additional duties or assignments as requested by the General Manager.

Skills/Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably Engineering.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Plant Manager role required.
• Vinyl, compounding, or extrusion experience preferred.
• Must be able to evaluate complex situations, balancing production efficiencies with available equipment and assets.
• Strong LEAN experience required.
• Must have strong problem solving/analytical skills.
• Be knowledgeable of safety, quality, and productivity processes.
• Ability to create accountability and to lead by example.
• Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.