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This role is responsible for ensuring that all products are manufactured in compliance with company specifications and consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. The Plant Manager will drive operational performance by achieving or surpassing established targets for safety, quality, and productivity, while providing leadership and direction to team leaders and assistant team leaders. Success in this role will be measured by the ability to meet forecasted production volumes, effectively manage variable and fixed costs, minimize quality returns, maintain appropriate staffing levels, drive continuous improvement, and uphold strong safety performance.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nBachelor’s Degree or equivalent required, Engineering or technical emphasis desired\nMinimum of 5 years of experience in a manufacturing leadership capacity\nExperience in managing plastics blown film and converting operation\nUnderstanding and working knowledge of the structural foam or high-pressure molding.\nExperience in scheduling products and personnel in a manufacturing environment\nHigh degree of planning and coordination skills required to coordinate between purchasing, maintenance, engineering, sales, quality, operations and suppliers\nAbility to monitor and ensure achievement of business unit goals and to take corrective action as necessary if cost levels, schedules, or other production factors do not conform to the plan\nKnowledge of management techniques and skills, engineering, purchasing methods, and general business principles is required to effectively manage processes\nExperience in a 24/7 environment, preferred\nStrong verbal and written communications skills\nStrong technical skills required\nStrong organizational skills with ability to handle multiple tasks\nExcellent leadership and interpersonal skills\nStrong PC skills/aptitude with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)\nAbility to understand P & L Statements\nAbility to develop production cost model\nAbility to forecast monthly material and labor costs\nProven problem-solving leadership skills in a team environment\nExperience in Quality Management Systems\nEnsure consistent, dependable attendance and demonstrate a willingness to accommodate non-standard work hours as necessary.\nCapable of effectively managing job-related stress and fostering productive workplace interactions.\n\nJOB RESPONSIBILITIES:\nSchedule workflow to meet customer orders through the proper planning and control, training of personnel and equipment utilization.\nWork with the scheduling department on finalizing a schedule to assure a customer fill rate of nearly 100%. Make sure all raw materials and equipment are planned in advance to meet the schedule. \nAnalyze the operations from a financial perspective to prepare monthly financial reports for the management team. The analysis should predict the future month’s outlook and explain the prior month’s results.\nTravel both domestically and internationally as necessary, assuring business requirements are met, as dictated by business needs.\nWork with Logistics Team, Scheduler, and General Manager to supplement any product capacity shortfalls.\nWork with Maintenance Managers to ensure the availability of extrusion dies and other key components that are critical to the extrusion and conversion process.\nWork with the engineering team to focus on continuous improvement projects to reduce or eliminate down time, quality issues, and inefficiencies. \nSuggest and manage capital projects that improve the business. Work with the engineering team to ensure the projects are properly planned and executed. \nManage production scheduling and material flow process to maximize machine efficiency while minimizing raw materials and finished goods.\nReport all aspects related to resin including but not limited to; pounds consumed, pounds scrapped, scrap reasons, percentage reclaimed, net reclaimed, product weights per 1000, cost and efficiencies improvements, pounds scheduled to actual, and usage by supplier. Use information to improve the yield and efficiencies.\nMonitor, report, and initiate action on results of efficiencies, quality, and costs.\nDevelop and prepare routine reports and submit them to General Manager.\nProvide leadership and team guidance while relating work with all levels within the 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics organization and outside the organization with Inteplast Group.\nAssist sales, quality, and General Manager when required with direct contact with customers including scheduling, audits, shipping, and quality.\nLead the manufacturing processes in meeting safety performance goals, enforcing OSHA regulations and adhering to the 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics housekeeping standards and Good Manufacturing Practices.\nWork with the quality manager and safety coordinator to recommend and submit capital projects to improve safety.\nCoordinate staff in the development of new processes and/ or products as either self-initiated or directed by the General Manager or 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