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Plant Manager in Training

Corvac Composites, LLC
Kentwood, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/10/2026 CLOSED ON 2/8/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Manager in Training position at Corvac Composites, LLC?

Position Title: Plant Manager in Training

Reporting Relationship: Plant Manager

Pay Structure: Salary

Purpose Of The Position

To learn all aspects of Plant Management

Required

Background Required:

  • Good oral and written communication skills
  • Computer skills including Microsoft office products

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Manufacturing Experience preferred

Operations

Learning Objectives and Responsibilities:

Leading daily management meetings to ensure that required actions are taken

  • Work closely with department managers to ensure efficiency and to advise priorities as required
  • Support plant housekeeping, organization, and safety rules including management personnel
  • Create corrective actions for environmental non-conformances by analyzing key environmental performance indicators such as emissions, waste, recycling rates, and energy usage
  • Broad understanding of safety systems and enforcement of safety policies
  • Assist in removing production constraints, allocating human and equipment resources and aiding production employees to attain all established goals
  • Monitor Plant success using KPI’s, Financials and Plant Performance Trackers
  • Development and deployment of practical continuous improvement applications of lean manufacturing tools

Continuous Improvement/Lean Principles

  • Ability to identify and eliminate areas of waste
  • Lead the team in lean initiatives such as continuous improvement events and problem-solving activities

Quality

  • Support quality system by assuring the team achieves quality standards

Safety

  • Consistently adhere to, and support, company policies and procedures

Leadership Expectations

  • Must treat all employees with dignity & respect
  • Must support the values of the company
  • Provide oversight to achieve metrics through team-based problem solving

Special Skills

  • Ability to motivate and communicate with employees
  • Lead decision-making processes in a team environment
  • Excellent interpersonal skills – communication with all levels of associates; establish collaborative relationships between functional areas of the company; build employee commitment to a continuous improvement environment
  • Help lead performance planning and appraisal processes and provide coaching and guidance to all operations employees
  • Effective time management skills. An operations Manager faces production deadlines, shipping dates and more which requires the ability to manage time accordingly

Salary : $75,000 - $100,000

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