Plant Operations Manager, Resin & Raw Materials

Our focus

We’re building a plant culture where safe, reliable operations deliver on-time production at optimal cost and quality. Your leadership aligns people, processes, and materials—especially raw resin and BOM-critical inputs—to meet plan every day.

Role snapshot

• Production performance: Achieve targets through efficiency gains, cost discipline, and compliance.
• Labor planning: Create and execute labor deployment strategies to meet manufacturing goals.
• Continuous improvement: Upgrade processes and management methods; document changes and lead training.
• Team leadership: Direct first-line production supervisors and indirect staff; elevate engagement and accountability.
• Quality collaboration: Partner with the Quality team to maintain product specs and consistency.
• QA Hold ownership: Inspect, identify root causes of non-conformance, and install preventive controls.
• Materials & cost: Oversee raw material procurement and flow—efficient offloading, accurate inventory counts, BOM adherence, and smart resin utilization to positively impact cost.
• Maintenance alignment: Coordinate with the Maintenance Manager to ensure dependable equipment performance.
• Cross-functional delivery: Work with internal and external support teams to meet the production schedule and ship to target.
• Stakeholder communication: Keep Scheduling, Safety, Sales, Customer Service, and external customers aligned.
• Safety leadership: Establish standards and procedures; hold everyone accountable for a safe, healthy workplace.
• Metrics & reporting: Produce data-rich reports—scrap; lbs/labor hour; changeover and screen-change times; downtime minutes and reasons by line and plant; actual lbs/hour per line vs. engineered capability; and quality complaints by multiple views—to drive improvements.
• Culture & cadence: Participate in plant-wide communications and employee events.
• Other essential duties as assigned.

How you’ll lead people operations

• Partner with HR on goals, performance and development, succession planning, interviewing and selection, and corrective actions for direct and indirect reports.
• Coach supervisors to build motivated, satisfied teams and positive engagement on every shift.

What success looks like

• Production schedule attained and product shipped to target.
• Visible improvements in scrap, downtime, and throughput vs. capability.
• Consistent quality against specifications and fewer QA Holds.
• Clear documentation and effective training on new processes.
• Safe behaviors embedded across the plant.