Plant Manager

Our client, a leading manufacturer of disposable food packaging products, is seeking a Plant Manager to join their team in Conyers, GA.

Directs plant operations within a facility up to 600 employees and a focus on meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, production, efficiency, and service.

• Develop and implement new and improved operations and processes, all with a committed focus on safety, quality, service and cost
• Direct practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet quality standards, and serve the needs of our customers.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Direct plant leadership team to assess progress, analyze problems, facilitate solutions, identify resources and adjust plans as needed
• Ensure that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with quality requirements
• Identify, recommend, and implement short- and long-term business strategies
• Responsible for the organization's planning and budgeting
• Monitor KPI’s anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of targets
• Facilitate regular improvement planning sessions to identify key strategic opportunities to achieve manufacturing strategic goals and develop related action plans with measurable outcomes.
• Support and reinforce the effective application of the Daily Management System to validate that actions lead to desired performance improvements.
• Lead by example to promote and encourage employees to strongly commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
• Understand, support and follow management expectations in alignment with company values

Meet and aim to exceed the company’s management expectations which include, but are not limited to:

• Manage self – exhibit personal accountability and use good judgment, etc.
• Develop the team – create a motivational environment and provide constructive feedback, etc.
• Advance the business – continuously improve and provide a strategic focus, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business or related field with seven (7) years of manufacturing operations management or leadership assignments demonstrating a progression of increased scope and responsibility
• Five (5) years of experience managing employees with supervisory responsibilities
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in planning, resource allocation, cost analysis and budgeting, people management, and leadership guidance
• Displays strong interpersonal skills and is accessible and approachable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary in order to persuade and influence decision making of individuals, groups, or work teams
• Ability to utilize business sense and creativity to develop new ideas, approaches and solutions
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create basic reports, documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Power Point
• Demonstrated project management experience
• Prior Plant Manager experience, preferred
• Experience managing multi-shift or continuous operations, preferred
• Paper converting, chemical or plastics processing, or packaging industrial experience, preferred
• Lean manufacturing experience, preferred

• Ability to be on-call 24/7
• Work is split between an office environment, production facility, and/or warehouse
• Exposure to extreme heat, loud noise, dirt, dust, odors, and fumes is probable
• Required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) in required areas
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid driver’s license
• Authorized to work in the United States