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Plant Manager

Confidential
Confidential Salary
Lancaster, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2026

The Plant Manager will lead the development of a highperforming organization that supports both business and operational strategies within a specialized manufacturing environment. This role provides strategic, developmental, and tactical leadership to drive Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement across the facility. The Site Manager is responsible for ensuring products are delivered accurately and efficiently while meeting Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, and Customer Service standards. This is a fully onsite position reporting into the Operations & Supply Chain leadership team.

Responsibilities

  • Champion Safety and Quality; model high standards of operational discipline and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements across all departments onsite (including functions that do not directly report into this role).
  • Oversee Environmental, Health, and Safety performance; drive continuous improvement to maintain a riskfree operating environment.
  • Build and reinforce a culture focused on accountability, bias for action, and valueadded processes.
  • Develop, track, and improve Key Performance Indicators; lead corrective actions when performance deviates from plan.
  • Maintain clear and effective communication across the site and with crossfunctional teams and business units.
  • Apply critical thinking to evaluate and implement process improvements, operational efficiencies, and simplified workflows.
  • Establish operational strategies and standard processes; drive alignment across site functions.
  • Deliver financial commitments by meeting cost, production, and variance goals aligned with the operating plan.
  • Support Working Capital performance, including proactive actions to address variances.
  • Stay ahead of industry technology changes and identify opportunities to enhance operations, increase productivity, and maintain competitive advantage.
  • Generate and implement improvement ideas related to safety, yield, throughput, and quality through lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles.
  • Lead rootcause and corrective-action activities; ensure sustainable solutions that achieve targeted outcomes.
  • Ensure compliance with all corporate Quality and EHS policies, including completion of required documentation and corrective actions (MOCs, RCCA for EHS CARs and Quality CARs).

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
  • 10 years of operations and engineering experience within a manufacturing environment.
  • 5 years of leadership or supervisory experience.
  • Experience working within highly regulated environments (AS9100 or similar preferred).
  • Proven track record of improving and sustaining operational performance.
  • Labor relations experience is a plus.
  • Strong capability in developing and elevating talent.
  • Must possess or be eligible to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.

Company Description
DSJ Global is a revolutionary search firm, specializing in the bespoke delivery of executive search solutions to clients.
Working across a number of niche industries and sectors across the US, UK, and Europe.
With offices in New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore, DSJ Global operates on an international scale providing bespoke search packages which are unrivaled in the widespread recruitment market. Our aim is simple, to provide executive search level services which are flexible and tailored to the individual requirement of each client, on an unrivaled cost structure. We currently specialize in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, OPEX, Finance and Human Resources.

We believe that every client should receive the benefit and accuracy of a search approach, whilst being able to dictate how, when and where it occurs, all on a fee structure to suit. Our revolutionary approach allows us to structure each assignment according to the requirements, time scales and budget available. We believe that for too long executive search firms have been too rigid in their approach and have been able to dictate how the search is conducted, leaving the client relatively powerless on the outcome.

Our service allows our clients to have increased control, direction and interaction in the search conducted on their behalf and has resulted in successful, on going relationships as search firm of choice with an ever expanding client group.

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