What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Manager position at CHEP?
*This is a Plant based role and will be located at the Wilmington, MA site M-F
About the Role:
- Provide strategic leadership, resource management, and operational direction to ensure excellence in safety, customer service, quality, and cost-efficiency at the plant level whilst delivering against production targets
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational performance and foster a culture of safety, accountability, and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities may include:
- Lead and be accountable for the health and safety of all employees, contractors, and visitors, ensuring strict adherence to corporate and legislative requirements.
- Champion the continuous improvement of safety performance, aligned with Brambles’ Zero Harm initiative, while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.
- In collaboration with the maintenance team oversee equipment reliability across the site ensuring operational continuity and efficiency.
- Ensure full compliance with all task-specific responsibilities outlined in CHEP procedures, work instructions, and safety protocols, maintaining operational consistency.
- Drive the implementation of best practices and continuous improvement processes to optimize plant performance in areas such as safety, quality, and cost control.
- Maintain site security and ensure compliance with service center requirements, including managing storage, stock levels, and movement of materials and equipment.
- Manage, lead, and develop plant staff, fostering accountability and ensuring that all team members meet or exceed performance expectations as outlined in job descriptions and agreements.
- Ensure that customer expectations, both internal and external, are consistently met or exceeded through effective management of plant operations.
Qualifications
- Essential Qualifications:
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
Experience
- P&L management
- Results oriented and can meet commitments
- Proven track record of success and stability
- Works well unsupervised
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Skills and Knowledge
- Superior ability to train people and motivate a team
- Applicants need a good working knowledge of all Microsoft Office products, especially Excel
- Demonstrated solid decision making
- Ability to provide new ideas - “think outside the box"
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary
Languages
Essential:
- English
Desirable:
- Spanish
Compensation statement:
The salary range for this position is $115,000 to $155,000 per year. Salary ranges provided take into account a wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications, geographic differentials and other business and organizational needs. Therefore, actual amounts offered may be higher or lower than the range provided. If you have questions, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Salary : $115,000 - $155,000
