Area Plant Manager I Grade 15

Position Summary

The Area Plant Manager provides leadership and direction to the plant in all areas of responsibility including administration, production, processing, packaging, quality, maintenance, warehousing, shipping, purchasing, safety and environmental.

Essential Job Functions

Directs the overall activities of the manufacturing facilities of the plant to ensure customer orders are received, scheduled, produced and delivered at the lowest possible cost to meet the customers’ requirements while maintaining corporate established quality standards.

Analyzes plant operations to ensure that the facility maintains a leadership position in the industry and that it takes advantage of new processes and technologies that become available.

Responsible for expense control, including labor and overhead costs utilizing continuous improvement techniques.

Develops and manages implementation of plant capital budget.

Provides reliable and accurate information to finance to ensure that end of month closing schedules are met.

Implements plant safety programs and ensure compliance with manufacturing best practices.

Responsible for all corporate, customer and government audits to ensure compliance as well as all environmental compliance.

Maintains proper staffing levels, employee performance evaluations, discipline, and employee commendation. Responsible for the overall succession planning and development of plant management staff.

Interface with Engineering regarding design changes and corrections to blue prints on the floor.

Ensure compliance with Quality /ISO Program and audits. 

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of five (5) years of plant management and/or operations experience and two (2) years supervisory experience required.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex documents such as scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts, such as advanced statistical theory, and mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. Ability to apply mathematical concepts to financial statements, budgets and cash flow.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific reasoning to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism in its most difficult phases. Ability to directly, or through others, develop a strategic plan based on a keen understanding of customer insights into a logical plan of action. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

Scope and Responsibility: Responsible for all plant activities in a business unit capable of producing one hundred million or greater in revenue.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is regularly required to sit, walk, talk, hear and occasionally lift up to 10 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus.

Work Environment

• The incumbent is occasionally required to work near moving mechanical parts and in outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.