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Plant Manager

Quanex
Cannon, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 12/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/17/2026
Quanex is looking for a Plant Manager to join our team in Cannon Falls, MN!

In this role you are the leader of the manufacturing facility. You are accountable for leading a team that meets or exceeds customer, productivity, quality, and financial goals. You are responsible for P&Ls for the location, overseeing all aspects of plant operations and maintenance. You will support company/division initiatives and balance strategic planning with day-to-day operational excellence. You will be expected to establish a culture that embraces safety, teamwork, inclusion, accountability, employee development, and open communication, and key performance metrics.

We Offer You!

  • Competitive Salary
  • Bonus Potential
  • 401K with 5% company match, yours to keep after 2 years
  • 15% immediate return if you participate in the company’s ESPP
  • Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
  • Employer paid disability plans and life insurance
  • Paid Time Off & Holidays
  • Various Work Schedules
  • Tuition support for degree and continuous education
  • Employee Resource Groups focused on employee empowerment

What’s attractive about this position?

  • Opportunity to partner with a team across the US.
  • Supportive & collaborative culture
  • Opportunity to grow within the organization
  • Monthly Leadership webinars

What Success Looks Like

  • Safety first mindset- ensuring a safe, clean, and environmentally compliant culture.
  • Lead and develop talent, succession planning, create a culture of effective performance management and accountability.
  • Manage key operational functions including Extrusion Operations, Maintenance, Shipping/Receiving, and Quality.
  • Assure the yield targets are achieved or exceeded through each process of production.
  • Proactively seek opportunities to create efficiencies and/or savings opportunities while engaging employees and listening to ideas for continuous improvement.
  • Develop and manage inventory levels to support divisional sales service objectives. Control and administer inventories to achieve proper turns.
  • Supervise the development of production planning forecasts based on historical data, customer input, and information from the operations leadership and sales.
  • Assure all production orders are completed on schedule, per budget, and at the quality levels developed by divisional management to satisfy requirements.
  • Develop and champion an overall continuous improvement and innovation philosophy for the plant.
  • Ensure the plant is safe, clean, and environmentally compliant and cultivates a culture of safety and accountability.

What You Bring

  • Ten or more years of progressive manufacturing experience and a minimum of five years in a leadership role.
  • Experience within extrusion environment preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or business-related field. Experience in lieu of education.
  • Must be receptive to further training or education in operations related areas of focus.
  • Strong leadership, team building, coaching and ability to build a positive, safe culture while motivating people.
  • Excellent communication, technical writing skills, problem-solving, decision-making, and influencing skills.
  • People oriented and results driven.
  • Strong skills in using MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
  • A high degree of decision-making authority is required to maintain on-time delivery in this just-in-time/ship-by-shift environment.

Salary: $110K to130K per year w/ bonus potential

About Quanex, A Part Of Something Bigger

Quanex (NYSE: NX) is a global, publicly traded manufacturing company primarily serving OEMs in the fenestration, cabinetry, solar, refrigeration and outdoor products markets. We are A Part of Something Bigger by improving the performance and aesthetics of end products through continuous innovation, helping customers achieve greater production efficiencies, dedication to giving back to communities where we operate, producing shareholder value and helping our employees learn, grow, and thrive. Learn more at Quanex.com.

Salary : $110,000 - $130,000

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