What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Manager position at HTI?
HTI is seeking a Plant Manager for a plastic manufacturing company in the Greater Augusta, GA area. This company is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care, and other products.
What They Offer:
- Full Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- 401k Match
- EAP, LTD, STD, and Life Insurance
- PTO
What You Need:
- College education.
- MUST HAVE minimum of 5 years of production or plant management experience in the blown or cast FILM industry. Film production troubleshooting ability a strong plus.
- Continuous improvement knowledge and experience
- Experience working in a fast-paced management and managing multiple shifts and manufacturing personnel
- Proficiency in both English and Spanish language a plus
What Your Role Will Look Like:
Primary focus of this position is to plan, organize and direct the manufacturing operations, quality, maintenance, and inventory management in a manner which assures the most effective return on assets employed. To initiate plans focused on good manufacturing principles and visual manufacturing, emphasizing many tools including lean manufacturing processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of labor, equipment, facilities, materials and capital. Assures attainment of programs and production schedules while ensuring high quality standards and maintaining a safe working environment.
- Assume plantwide responsibility for all processes, equipment, employees’ safety, and housekeeping towards meeting plant performance goals related to safety, waste, quality, and productivity.
- Manage all department / shift personnel by fostering a culture of employee engagement through empowerment and skill development by setting expectations, providing guidance, maintaining individual accountability, coaching, training on both technical and soft skills, conducting performance appraisals, rewarding, and disciplining as appropriate while addressing complaints and resolving problems of all team members.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of all department processes and equipment towards effective problem solving and troubleshooting.
- Responsible for cost controls and optimizing processes related to material forecasting and usage, production output, labor cost, staffing requirements and duty assignments, scrap rate, change-over times, etc. to ensure all activities are value added as part of optimized plant operating costs.
- Establish/maintain effective working relationships with customers and suppliers.
- Successfully partner with purchasing and supply chain personnel for proper processing of materials.
- Ensure that established policies, rules and regulations and procedures are followed.
- Maintain a positive attitude and display good work ethic by modeling appropriate behaviors.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives with team members such as visual management, problem solving, 5S towards improving production quality, cost, downtime, processes, and procedures.
- Facilitate robust communications within and across shifts and with other departmental resources.
