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Assistant Plant Manager - Transportation Management

48forty Solutions
Lake, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 7/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2027

Overview

As an Assistant Plant Manager, you’ll get to assist in managing total plant operations and delivering superior customer satisfaction by driving results and exceeding expectations in the key areas of safety, service, quality, and cost. This role is vital in helping plant leadership both when and when they aren’t available.

What You'll Do

  • Manage the work of all production employees
  • Oversee production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods
  • Provide hands-on leadership as a working manager
  • Directly responsible for all employment decisions at the facility
  • Support plant administration to ensure compliance with established policies
  • Responsible, in consult with Plant Manager, for the cost and yield performance of the Plant in partnership with the overall P&L 
  • Support and implement cost-control initiatives and process control within the Plant
  • Continually review operations activities, including local transportation activities to maintain compliance with all Federal, State, and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD)
  • Drive safety improvements across the Plant
  • Maintain critical quality and raw material utilization standards to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability
  • Provide leadership to Plant staff and effectively motivate, delegate, and monitor their activities
  • Assist with recruiting and to train and develop all staff
  • Drive efficiencies through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, and driver management 
  • Arrange for necessary repairs in order to restore service and schedules for Fleet vehicles and trailers
  • Relay work orders, messages, and information to or from drivers, supervisors
  • Confer with customers or supervising personnel in order to address questions, problems, and requests for service
  • Monitor personnel and/or equipment locations and utilization in order to coordinate service and schedules
  • Record and maintain driver files and records of customer requests, work or services performed, charges, expenses, inventory, and other dispatch information
  • Oversee all aspects shipping/receiving functions including inventory and the maintenance of inventory

What You'll Need

  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred
  • 3+ years in a plant/warehouse supervisory role
  • Familiarity with private fleet management/transportation is helpful
  • Expert people management capability including non-exempt production workforce
  • Experience managing safety performance and programs
  • Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics

What We Offer

  • Competitive Pay, Holiday Pay, and Daily Pay – Access to your earned wages before payday!
  • Referral Bonuses
  • Long-Term Career Advancement
  • Paid Time Off
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, AD&D, and Short-Term & Long-Term Disability insurance for Eligible Full Time Employees
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Great Team Environment

What It's Like

48forty Solutions is the largest pallet management services company in North America! We provide end-to-end pallet solutions, from supply to retrieval, on-site services, reverse logistics, and packaging materials. We are truly Pallet Management Made Simple, our workforce is the heart and soul of our business, and we’re looking for our next Assistant Plant Manager to join our team!

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

  • Ability to work in extreme conditions to include, but not limited to, elements, heat, cold, and air particulate??

  • Repetitively lift up to 50-75 pounds and adjust body position to bend, stoop, walk, turn, pivot, and stand for entire shifts of varying lengths in time

  • The noise level in the work environment is dependent on location

  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required (eye protection, ear protection is mandatory at several locations, safety shoes)

  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include, close vision, distance vision and color vision

48forty Solutions is an equal opportunity employer.

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Pay Range

USD $65,000.00 - USD $70,000.00 /Yr.

Salary : $65,000 - $70,000

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