Plant Manager

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Plant Manager

SUMMARY OF ROLE:

The Plant Manager provides direction and leadership to Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Logistics, Human Resource, and Quality departments. This role supports corporate profit objectives through continuous improvement in machinery, practices, and procedures that reduce product costs, maintain consistently high product quality standards, and enhance employee satisfaction. This role also provides leadership that directly impacts improvement programs and systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzes, evaluates, and presents information to adhere to safety policies, SES EHS pillar, and reports safety outcomes in a timely fashion. Leads safety by example.
• Provide sound budgeting and planning for the manufacturing and support operations.
• Ability to manage and lead in a Lean environment.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and trust regarding product quality and on-time performance.
• Ensure optimum effectiveness in scrap control and manufacturing efficiency (OEE), and costs.
• Ensure effective Product Safety environment with adherence to US FDA, Dairy, HACCP, SQF, ISO 54001 and all others agreed upon product safety requirements.
• Provide the leadership that supports our Quality Systems inclusive of efforts regarding Customer Required Systems.
• Foster an environment of open communications and trust with all employees.
• Conducts management meetings with plant personnel to establish, delineate, and review policies, to coordinate functions and operations between departments, and to establish responsibilities and procedures to attain objectives.
• Analyzes, evaluates, and presents information concerning factors such as business situations, production capabilities, manufacturing problems, and design and development of new products for consideration by other members of management team.
• Keeps the management team abreast of significant issues or developments identified during activities and actions being taken to improve the situation.
• Facilitates employee teams to build cohesiveness and improve the overall results of the respective teams’ tasks.
• Develops strategies and programs that improve the productivity and efficiency of various work processes of the company.
• Reviews technical problems and procedures of departments and recommends solutions to problems or changes in procedures.
• Actively participate in capital planning, implementation, and new product development efforts.
• Ensure effective personnel orientation, training, and development programs.
• Establish operating indicators (metrics) which clearly measure departmental performance on a regular basis and communicate this information to upper management and critical customers.
• Responsibilities for supervising direct reports include hiring, and training, planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
  
  

YOU BRING THESE SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

• EDUCATION:
• Bachelor's degree in a Business Management or Technical field from an accredited four-year college or university.
• SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Four (4) to seven (7) years related management experience.
• Communication Proficiency
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• HPWS Design - Implementation
• Manufacturing Metrics
• Sustainability/Social Responsibility
• Work Environment Safety
  

IDEAL CANDIDATES HAVE THESE COMPETENCIES :

We are looking for people who are willing to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, employees who create a climate where everyone is motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. If you actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged, if you develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals, SIG is the place for you. To deliver better for our customers, our future colleagues build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. Finally, we are looking for colleagues who build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Are you someone who applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals? Are you someone who can create new and better ways for the organization to be successful? If the answer is ‘yes’, come and join us.

WE OFFER:

• Day 1 Benefits Enrollment
• Retirement 401K Matching
• Employee Assistance Program
• Identity Theft Protection Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• And more…
  
  

OUR PROMISE

SIG is the place for you to build something incredible. If you join us, you will be part of a globally successful international company, which is leading its industry in sustainability, technology, and more. We think of ourselves as the career launchpad - a place to develop yourself fast with real work, real experience, real opportunities to build skills. You will be part of a highly motivated and dynamic team, you will have personal development opportunities, trainings, and coaching opportunities from senior team members. If you show skill and willingness to learn, we'll back you all the way.

About Sig

SIG is a leading provider of packaging systems and solutions for better. We work in partnership with our customers to bring food products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. We are the only packaging system supplier covering carton, pouch, and bag-in-box. Our versatile technology and product innovation capacity enable us to deliver better for customers, for consumers, and for the world. Sustainability guides us, technology empowers us, but it’s the passion and drive of our people that truly enable us to deliver better.

Founded in 1853, SIG is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland, and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange.