Plant Manager

Symbiotic Services is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to lead a manufacturing facility in Putnam, Connecticut.

The Plant Manager will lead all aspects of facility operations supporting temperature-controlled packaging solutions for life sciences, healthcare, and other critical markets. This leader will be responsible for safety, operational excellence, financial performance, quality, continuous improvement, equipment reliability, and employee development.

• Champion a zero-incident safety culture.
  
• Lead daily manufacturing operations across production, quality, safety, cost, and delivery.
  
• Develop and manage the annual operating budget.
  
• Drive plant financial and operational performance.
  
• Prepare and justify capital expenditure requests.
  
• Build and strengthen maintenance and equipment reliability programs.
  
• Develop, engage, and retain manufacturing talent.
  
• Lead Lean and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
• Ensure compliance with FDA, GMP, environmental, safety, and quality requirements.
  
• Coach plant leaders through performance management and succession planning.
  
• Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and corporate functions.
  

• 10 years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience.
  
• Demonstrated plant or significant manufacturing operations leadership.
  
• Experience owning budgets and managing capital projects.
  
• Strong leadership and team-development capabilities.
  
• Proven cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
  
• Experience developing high-performing manufacturing teams.
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Sciences, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  

• Cold chain or temperature-controlled packaging experience.
  
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences manufacturing experience.
  
• FDA/GMP-regulated manufacturing experience.
  
• Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement expertise.
  
• Maintenance excellence and operational reliability experience.
  

Plant Manager | Putnam, CT | On-Site | Target $160K, Up to ~$170K Bonus

Symbiotic Services is seeking a senior manufacturing leader with 10 years of progressive operations leadership experience. The strongest candidates will have full plant or substantial manufacturing leadership responsibility, including safety, P&L/budget ownership, capital projects, Lean/continuous improvement, maintenance reliability, and talent development. Experience in FDA/GMP, pharmaceutical, life sciences, cold-chain, or temperature-controlled packaging environments is highly preferred.