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Plant Manager

Cascades
Rockingham, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 10/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/16/2026
Welcome to Cascades!

Are you a proven manufacturing leader who thrives on driving performance, building strong teams, and delivering operational excellence? This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact tissue manufacturing operation where your expertise will directly influence safety, productivity, and long-term success.

Join the team in Rockingham, NC as a Plant Manager and help build a more sustainable future.

What’s in it for you

Taking care of our people is in our nature, so you’ll enjoy:

  • A competitive annual salary starting at $160,000
  • Profit sharing and an employee share purchase plan
  • A hybrid work model: 3 days in the office (2 fixed 1 flexible)
  • A full range of benefits: group insurance, telemedicine, and an employer-supported retirement plan
  • An annual allowance to spend on goods and services of your choice
  • A yearly wellness program and employee assistance program
  • A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace

Your Role

As Plant Manager, you’ll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential. Your scope includes:

  • Lead all plant operations to achieve safety, quality, production, and financial objectives.
  • Drive a strong safety culture through visible leadership and accountability.
  • Improve reliability through preventive and predictive maintenance, planning, scheduling, and root cause analysis.
  • Optimize paper machine performance, equipment uptime, productivity, and product quality.
  • Manage plant financial performance, including labor, maintenance, fiber, chemical, and energy costs.
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives using data-driven problem-solving methods.
  • Develop leadership, technical, and hourly teams.
  • Build and execute recovery plans for underperforming operations with measurable business impact.

What you bring

You're a natural fit for Plant Manager if you have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or a related field preferred.
  • 15 years of manufacturing leadership experience in tissue, paper, pulp, or related process industries.
  • Experience leading paper machine operations and delivering performance improvements.
  • Success managing operational turnarounds and improving underperforming facilities.
  • Strong knowledge of papermaking processes, maintenance and reliability systems, continuous improvement, and plant financial management.
  • Ability to lead large teams, develop talent, and drive organizational change.
  • Tissue manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
  • Progressive leadership experience from Operations or Production Management into Plant or Mill Leadership.

If you bring as much heart to who you are as to what you do, we can't wait to meet you!

Apply now and join our team of Cascaders as Plant Manager in Rockingham, NC.

Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably.

This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization.

Salary : $160,000

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