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Assistant Plant/Manufacturing Manager

Unitex
Linden, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 12/19/2025 CLOSED ON 1/18/2026

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Assistant Plant Manager - Manufacturing

Unitex is experiencing unprecedented growth! Due to this growth, we are in search of a highly skilled Production/Manufacturing Manager for our facility in Linden, NJ.

Schedule: 5 day work week SUNDAY - Thursday

Start time 5:30am - close (when all the jobs are completed).

Must Be Flexible To Work Additional Hours When Needed.

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $75,000 to $85,000 per year. Actual compensation decisions are based on factors such as experience, seniority, location, and other permissible job-related factors.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Maintain individual and department performance at established standards
  • Supervise and direct a diverse task assortment across 4 Production Supervisors and an extensive team of plant employees: allocating relevant personnel for maximum efficiency
  • Ensure all processes meet internal Unitex policies and procedures by conducting consistent compliance checks
  • Implement successful learning and development initiatives to enhance performance across the entire team
  • Oversee health and safety operations across the plant, including carrying out notable investigations when necessary
  • Develop strong and productive relationships with customers across all levels of business
  • Analyze operational processes and performance; implementing solutions for improvement as necessary
  • Supply daily status reports, issue reports, highlight reports, and progress reports to maintain senior expectation
  • Provide consultation to the team concerning the introduction of new concepts with in company processes
  • Deal with all arising issues in a prompt manner; ensuring all production and productivity goals are achieved
  • Administer various HR duties, including payroll, weekly scheduling, employee relations, absence, and performance management issues
  • Check quality and quantity of products to maintain a high level of customer


Job Requirements:

  • 2 years managerial experience running a plant in a production/service environment
  • Bi-lingual English/Spanish highly preferred
  • Degree preferred
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic work setting
  • High degree of customer responsiveness
  • Understands production work flow
  • Proven ability to manage to standards
  • For consideration, please send resume with salary requirements/history.


Visit www/unitex.com/careers to apply online

Unitex

301 Pleasant Street

Linden, NJ 07036

EOE

#UNITEXMGMT

About Unitex:

For more than 100 years, our family-run business has been leading the way in the medical uniform and linen rental industry. Today, with 1900 employees and growing, we are the largest family-owned healthcare service provider in the country.

Every single day, Unitex is behind the scenes cleaning, preparing and delivering the linen that helps healthcare professionals provide the best care to their patients from fresh sheets to warm blankets, comfortable gowns and clean towels.

Unitex is an essential service to the healthcare industry which translates to a safe and stable workplace that makes it easy for people to apply their skills to become successful in every one of our roles. Due to our past, current and future expansions, we actively hire drivers, mechanics and production operators, clerical positions and various management and outside sales roles. All of Unitex’ s roles include competitive pay, medical benefits, PTO time and more. We are committed to training, developing and promoting our employees. Those with a solid work ethic, who are self-motivated, reliable and flexible succeed at Unitex.

When it comes to stable, long-term employment with diverse growth opportunities, Unitex has it all. Join Unitex and become part of a winning team.

Unitex Recruitment video: https://youtu.be/5XgjhF0ubnw

Salary : $75,000 - $82,000

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