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The Plant Manager is responsible for driving a culture of continuous improvement focusing on serving the customer by creating and maintaining a safe, highly productive and quality focused facility, while making the most efficient and cost-conscious use of our assets. The Plant Manager will work with the management team to make TEC Specialty Products a great place to work, where employees are engaged and have the opportunity for career growth.

Primary Duties

This individual will be involved in a variety of management, leadership, and mentoring activities including:

• Creating a culture of safety as a value through safe manufacturing practices and ensure compliance with all applicable safety and environmental rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Set and maintain standards that ensure on-time delivery of quality products that meet customer needs
• Optimizing costs and productivity through lean continuous improvement activities
• Control operational costs that are aligned with seasonal business needs
• Identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing capital project activity to drive process improvement, improve safety and optimize flow through the plant
• Determine facility headcount required and manage planning and approvals
• Guide management team in recruiting, hiring, development and termination activities to meet business needs
• Function as an in-plant expert concerning the production of the plants product line
• Manage the managers in the plant. Groom and mentor potential successors for plant and operations leadership roles across the network
• Maintain performance excellence by holding the team accountable for both rewarding results and managing employees who do not meet performance expectations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years experience leading a manufacturing operation as site leader
• 8+ years experience in batch manufacturing leadership role
• Demonstrated expertise in managing significant change within a manufacturing operating environment
• Relevant experience in plant start-ups with demonstrated success in organizational development and team building
• Knowledge of SAP or similar ERP database management systems

This position comes with:

• Annual bonus up to 22%
• PTO + Paid Holidays
• Employee medical benefits for employees through BCBS, Sun Life dental and vision, life insurance, short & long-term disability insurance, wellness program, 401(k) with 3% match, plus employee assistance programs
• Employee health (medical, dental, vision) pricing: $95.42 (medical), $15.64 (dental) $12.39 (vision)/month
• Employee + Family health (medical, dental, vision) pricing: $241.06 (medical), $37.53 (dental), $31.58 (vision)/month