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Title: Assistant Plant Manager
Location: Allentown, PA area
Shift: Monday-Friday 2pm-12am
Industry: Food & Beverage
This is a unique opportunity to join a food & beverage manufacturing company that moves fast, builds collaboratively, and operates with the rigor of high-growth potential. Production is doubling as new automation comes online, and this role will directly influence how the company grows. Think AI technology meets F&B innovation on the East Coast!
What You’ll Lead
- Oversight of night shift operations in a high-automation, high-growth environment
- Leadership of ~40 hourly team members 2 salaried Shift Managers
- Scaling packaging operations
- Coaching and developing salaried leaders—building leadership strength
- Solving complex operational problems using data, analytics, and root-cause methodology
- Coordinating across Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Process, R&D, etc.
- Supporting rapid expansion of new automation
- Making independent decisions during nights/weekends in a 24/7 operation
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 5 years of leadership within food & beverage manufacturing
- Experience leading salaried leaders (not only hourly teams)
- Strong critical thinking, decision-making, and ambiguity-management skills
- Ability to drive accountability and continuous improvement
- Comfortable in a scaling environment with rapid change
- Calm under pressure; strong communicator across functions
Ideal Candidate Traits
- Proactive, independent decision-maker
- Root-cause thinker; strong analytical mindset
- Communicates clearly across functions & levels
- Thrives in ambiguity
- Gets things done
- High ownership mindset
- Hungry to grow