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Plant Manager

Ajulia Executive Search
Elyria, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/9/2026
Are you looking to make a career change to a rapidly growing, stable, innovating company? This exciting opportunity as a Plant Manager offers a competitive salary plus an excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid PTO etc. Does this position match your future career goals? Then this Plant Manager could be the right fit for you.

  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Heavy Industrial manufacturing industry experience.

Job Responsibilities

  • Responsible for implementing departmental policies, objectives, goals, and organizing officials and staff members.
  • In charge of coordinating businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales or distribution of products.
  • Monitor businesses and agencies to make sure services are provided within budgetary limits.
  • Lead the manufacturing functions in the plant on all shifts to ensure on-time production and shipment of conforming products and materials. Including: planning the production flow, troubleshooting manufacturing issues, handling staffing issues, and monitoring production orders and schedules.
  • Increase production by providing leadership and developing strategic plans.
  • Ensures understanding and compliance of all regulations, policies, and procedures relating to Safety/OSHA/Regulation controls.
  • Lead all heading, metal?forming, and internal secondary production processes, ensuring safe, efficient, and consistent operations.
  • Operate and oversee plant machinery to achieve required throughput targets, including OEE and other performance metrics across multiple products and equipment types.
  • Plan and manage daily/period production staffing, ensuring personnel are scheduled appropriately, aligned to correct part routings, and utilized efficiently. Oversee overtime, shift coverage, and labor optimization.
  • Ensure all materials are produced to customer specifications while maintaining strict adherence to company quality standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Verify availability and quality of required tooling for each production run, collaborating with tooling and engineering teams to maximize tool performance and support continuous improvement.

Job Qualifications:

  • BA in Business, Management , Engineering or related field.
  • 5 plus years of Plant Management experience in a manufacturing industry.
  • Heavy Industrial manufacturing industry experience.
  • Manufacturing Methods.
  • Proven experience in reducing plant production costs, and in increasing safety standards.
  • Previous experience/best practices implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools such as; Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, etc. to drive improvement.
  • Coordination of production activities including job scheduling, staffing, etc and hold daily meeting to coordinate.
  • Conduct Quality audits on products moving through-out the plant.
  • Ensure labor tracking is timely and accurate.
  • Provide training for plant staff.
  • Responds to external customer needs with plant visits, assisting in customer surveys, and customer complaint resolution.
  • Proven experience in reducing plant production costs, and in increasing safety standards.

Salary Range

$130K-$150K

Jasleen Kaur

Job ID:25668

Ajulia Executive Search is a search firm specializing in Manufacturing, Finance, IT, Legal and Pharmaceutical positions. This is a confidential search for one of our preferred clients. It is a direct hire position that includes competitive compensation and full comprehensive benefit package.

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Employment Type: Full Time

Salary : $130,000 - $150,000

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