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Plant Manager – Injection Molding
This is the senior operational leader for a 24/7 manufacturing facility within a global plastics organization.
The Plant Manager has full responsibility for plant performance across manufacturing, production, maintenance, warehousing, tooling, safety, facilities, and quality. This role owns site-level strategy and execution, partnering directly with the COO while leading a 100 employee operation.
This is a broad, high-accountability leadership position with full P&L responsibility and long-term capacity planning ownership.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead all plant operations including production, maintenance, warehousing, tooling, quality, safety, and facilities
- Drive manufacturing performance aligned with quality, delivery, and cost targets
- Own P&L results for the site
- Oversee capital planning, equipment investment, and inventory strategy
- Establish short- and long-term operational goals including capacity planning and site optimization
- Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Engineering, Finance, and HR
- Build and develop the manufacturing leadership team
- Strengthen operational discipline, reliability, and continuous improvement efforts
BACKGROUND THEY’RE TARGETING
- 15 years of progressive operations leadership experience
- Prior plant management experience in a 70 employee manufacturing environment
- Experienced with P&L ownership
- Injection Molding experience highly preferred
- Lean manufacturing or TPM exposure preferred
Salary : $140,000 - $165,000