Plant manager

Order Type : Direct Hire

Pay: $100K In summary: Increase productively, improve quality, ensure safe manufacturing conditions, meet customer expectations and ensure data accuracy. Job Responsibilities: · Assist the Director of Operations in the creation and implementation of a strategic vision to increase production, quality, and labor utilization across the facility. · Provide the necessary leadership to ensure that plant personnel and equipment are used effectively. · Requires a high level of detail orientation and rapid response especially with communication of status of jobs, quality, scheduling, shipping and customer satisfaction. · Assume plantwide responsibility for all processes, equipment, employees’ safety, and housekeeping towards meeting plant performance goals related to safety, waste, quality, and productivity · Create and follow documentation protocols and ensure that all operations records are properly maintained and reviewed. · Manage all department / shift personnel by fostering a culture of employee engagement through empowerment and skill development by setting expectations, providing guidance, maintaining individual accountability, coaching, training on both technical and soft skills, conducting performance appraisals, rewarding, and disciplining as appropriate while addressing complaints and resolving problems of all team members. · Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our internal and external customers’ expectations · Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results · Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus · Recruit, train, and supervise employees · Review and improve products and processes · Create and implement organizational or departmental goals, procedures, and policies · Monitor operations and generate and conduct effective corrective actions · Share a trusting relationship with workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff · Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime · Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets · Establish/maintain effective working relationships with management, internal functional organizations, customers and suppliers. · Ensure that established policies, rules and regulations and procedures are followed. · Maintain a positive attitude and display good work ethic by modeling appropriate behaviors. · Drive continuous improvement initiatives with team members such as visual management, problem solving, 5S towards improving production quality, cost, downtime, processes, and procedures. · Facilitate robust communications within and across shifts and with other departmental and other facility resources. · Perform other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position and the company Schedule- Monday-Friday, but also be flexible as needed Must be available to work 12 shifts, but also be flexible as needed Education / Qualifications / Background Requirements: · MUST HAVE minimum of 5 years of production or plant management experience in the blown or cast FILM industry. Film production troubleshooting ability a strong plus. · College education or equivalent experience. · MUST HAVE minimum of 5 years of production or plant management experience. · Continuous improvement knowledge and experience · Proficiency in both English and Spanish language a plus