Plant Manager

Plant Manager

Location- Burlington, WA

Reports to- Director of Manufacturing

Job Description 

Summary/Objective

The Plant Manager oversees the production, safety, maintenance, and quality assurance functions of our Burlington Plant. The Plant Manager is a multitasker that will coordinate the plant’s manufacturing processes to ensure compliance with company objectives, quality systems, and customer expectations.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Is accountable for all aspects of PWT Burlington operations, including inbound/outbound freight. 
• Ownership of factory Safety Culture and oversee Safety Management System (assuring training, accountability, continuous improvement systems)
  • Assure L&I and OSHA requirements are met.
  • Sponsor Safety Committee
  • Compliance to environmental standards and permits
• Ownership of factory employee administrative systems
  • Hiring/termination, onboarding, promotions for hourly and salary employees
  • Succession planning for leadership/technical roles.
  • Develop and nurture a collaborative and diverse team of contributors.
  • Sponsor and help build positive and successful team culture.
• Oversight of QC, Maintenance, and Operations teams (Press, Products, Shipping, Scheduling) and direct Manager of the department Managers and Supervisors
  • Assure adherence to Quality management System (QC standards)
  • Continuous improvement in Maintenance Management System, Quality Management System and Operations Management Systems
  • Accountable for production budget, scheduling and volume achievement, unsold reclaim production decisions, work order decisions.
• Administrative responsibilities
  • Analyze factory data, including PR, to maintain current understanding of performance.
  • Manage and report on safety, quality, production, and cost elements pertaining to budge/forecasting (provide reporting to VP on weekly, monthly basis)
  • Manage/control plant expenses
  • Understand products costing and gain ability to utilize costing models to drive efficiency/understanding production decisions.
  • Responsible for continuous improvement systems for efficiency. Data driven systems that continues to improve (PR)
  • Frequent speaking role in quarterly crew meetings
  • Contribute to company policy refinement (team activity) and implementation.
  • Develop, communicate, nurture the vision for the plant culture.
• CAPEX: Coordinate with Director of Manufacturing on budget and lead the development annual CAPEX plans
  • Oversee implementation.
  • Accountable for actuals vs. budget
  • Responsible for project management on key projects
• Support Director of Manufacturing
  • Strategic and tactical planning discussions
  • Budgeting, forecasting, and planning
  • Business development analysis, account assessment for Operations
  • Company policy modifications, work system improvements
  • Other duties as assigned

Competencies

• Ability to communicate with government agencies, customers vendors, PWT SMT on key issues.
• Understanding of analytical methods and statistical analysis principles
• Advanced computer literacy (Office 365 suite), NetSuite, Excel Tools development, Basic ODBC Query development
• Ability to interact and collaborate with SMT and staff roles outside your team (Accounting, IT, Supply Chain)
• Ability to successfully lead large organization (100+ employees) in manufacturing environment including shipping is required.

Work Environment-

Office environment and Manufacturing plant

Temperature- High temps between 80-100 degrees. Depends on time of year

Noise- Decibels can average around 90 dBA and reach peaks up to 115 dBA.

Physical Demands-

Sitting, standing and walking for long periods of time

Travel Requirements 

Occasional travel will be required: trade shows, customer visits, vendor visits, technical meetings and visiting other PWT plants. Expect this to average no more than 4 weeks per year.

Required Education and Experience

• Leadership team development experience in Manufacturing or similar business is required.
• Advanced degree such as business administration, manufacturing engineering, applied economics, MBA along with at least 5 years of progressive leadership experience in environment similar to PWT.
  • Form education can be substituted with at least 20 years of related and progressive business/ leadership experience.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.