Assistant Manager, Plant

Menasha Corporation•Urbana, OH

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Plant Manager is responsible for supporting a multi-site operation, with a primary focus on production performance, mold change operations, employee safety, quality, scrap reduction, and supervisor development. This role provides day-to-day leadership to the production department, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives are consistently achieved while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and employee engagement. The Assistant Plant Manager serves as a key member of the plant leadership team and acts as the Plant Manager's designee in their absence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
5-8 years of relevant work experience
3-5 years of leadership experience, including salary direct reports

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree
5-10 years of experience in plastics manufacturing
5-10 years of experience in a welding and/or fabrication environment
Union leadership experience

Responsibilities

Manage operations across a multi-site campus.
Lead day-to-day plant operations and ensure performance against safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives.
Drive OEE improvement initiatives and remove barriers to equipment performance and throughput.
Monitor and improve Direct Labor Efficiency (DLE) through workforce optimization and operational discipline.
Lead daily production meetings, escalation processes, and action item follow-up.
Ensure compliance with all EH&S, environmental, customer, and quality requirements.
Direct, coach, and develop supervisors and team leaders.
Support union labor relations, grievance investigations, contract administration, attendance management, and progressive discipline.
Lead root cause analysis activities using structured problem-solving methodologies.
Assist with multi-site collaboration and deployment of best practices across ORBIS facilities.
Serve as acting Plant Manager when assigned.
Other duties as assigned.