Plant Manager

Plant Manager

Location: Hammond, IN Reports to: Vice President of North American Operations 

Compensation: $140,000 - $160,000 Base Salary + Bonuses + 401K Matching, Profit Sharing, PTO and Comprehensive Health Benefits!

Summary: As a Plant Manager, you'll lead and coordinate overall plant operations to ensure production excellence, efficiency, and quality at optimized costs. Collaborating closely with division management, you'll drive productivity, quality, and process improvements while maintaining compliance and fostering customer relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Production Management: Coordinate manufacturing schedules, optimize raw materials, and ensure efficient production processes.
• Compliance and Safety: Maintain adherence to environmental, health, and safety regulations, including state and federal reporting requirements.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure IATF compliance across operations and quality processes.
• Budget and Expenditures: Develop and manage operating budgets and oversee capital expenditures.
• Project Oversight: Lead facility-related capital projects and collaborate with project teams.
• Supplier and Customer Relations: Build strong relationships with suppliers and maintain excellent customer connections.
• Logistics and Maintenance: Supervise inventory, logistics, and maintenance operations.
• Team Leadership: Oversee the production and maintenance teams, providing leadership and decision-making support.
• Floor Presence: Maintain a daily presence on the production floor to drive objectives and team engagement.
• Additional tasks as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• Proven leadership in an industrial setting and strong operational knowledge of manufacturing.
• 10+ years of management experience in an industrial environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent plant operations experience (preferred).
• Expertise in environmental, health, and safety protocols, especially hazardous materials management.
• Familiarity with lead oxide manufacturing is a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, ERP systems, and resource planning tools.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to prepare technical reports and make presentations.

Skills and Abilities:

• Logical reasoning and ability to solve a variety of practical problems.
• Understanding of plant layouts, blueprints, process flow diagrams, and operational documents like FMEAs and PPAPs.

Physical and Work Environment Requirements:

• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. and work in high-temperature conditions.
• Must wear a PAPR-style respirator while in the plant.
• Flexibility to travel and work outside normal business hours when required.
• Consistent and reliable attendance is essential.

Interested candidates should apply here or send an updated resume to chris.minyon@cybercoders.com with the subject line "Plant Manager."

For this position you must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor for this position.