Job Description

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Plant Manager is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and resource stewardship for a high-volume manufacturing site located in Yakima, WA. This role is accountable for driving timely and impactful improvements to the operating environment and for delivering performance at or above expectations for service, cost, safety, and quality. He/She will lead the execution of cross-functional strategies and plans that ensure we execute the company’s manufacturing excellence roadmap. The goals of this role are to manage structured change and combine long-term thinking with near term actions and decisions.

Successful candidates’ leadership and commitment to their team by taking direct responsibility for the safety of the people who work in your business, build trust and value the experience of the team around them and look to develop the people, sets high expectations for self and others, is a change agent and an effective communicator, is comfortable frequently interacting with senior leaders, and shows personal resilience. This position reports to the Director of Operations.

Foster a culture, including ways of working and behaviors, that is congruent with our mission, values, and success model

Invest a substantial amount of time reinforcing our manufacturing excellence roadmap, holding his/herself and others accountable for performance and leadership commitments

Identify and implement ways of working that make lean thinking and employee engagement a way of life in the plant. Focus will be on the process, not the individual

Drive simplification efforts within the site, particularly those manufacturing activities “draining” the operations cost structure

Take an active role in the community, raise awareness about opportunities the manufacturing industry can offer, nurture future manufacturing talent and grow their network and the company’s reputation, and give back

Set an unwavering expectation that relationships between supervisors, peers, and employees are respectful and inclusion

Create optimized schedules that balance production efficiency, deliver supply, and employee well-being by selectively and strategically using OT

Help drive all TQM activities within the sites

Manage and ensure successful new product/piloting

Develop site strategies for COGS reduction while managing growth and/or expansion

Reduce costs of goods measured as savings year-to-year including direct labor and overhead

Ensure compliance with quality assurance measured in our QA Index and Right First Time

Develop and train leadership and technical groups

Provides tactical direction as needed for all operations groups