Plant Manager-Cleveland, Tn

Millwood•Cleveland, TN

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Millwood Inc. is seeking a Plant Manager for its Cleveland, TN location. The company's mission is to demonstrate the love of Christ in all its dealings, emphasizing innovation, service, stewardship, and sustainability. Millwood is a single-source provider of load carrying, securement, damage prevention solutions, management services, erosion control, and lumber products, founded on Christian principles. With a national footprint and over 1,800 employees across 41 locations, Millwood is committed to the growth of its people, presence, products, and profitability. The ideal candidate will be a strong businessperson with a deep understanding of the value of people in building a successful organization. They should possess excellent technical skills, unquestioned personal integrity, a strong work ethic, and embrace the company's culture, mission, and values. This role requires a genuine individual with high integrity, trust, servitude, and discipleship, coupled with excellent business, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. The candidate must respect past accomplishments and be able to contribute to developing people strategies for recruitment, training, development, and retention to support the Strategic Business Unit's growth and profitability goals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in operations/supply chain or related field preferred
Six Sigma/Lean certification preferred
5+ years in engineering or manufacturing experience desired
Familiarity with fleet management/transportation
Strong customer focus orientation
Expert people management capability including hourly workers
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally
Experience managing safety performance and programs
Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics
Superior ability to manage people and motivate a team
Excellent problem-solving skills and strategic thinking ability
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and written.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Knowledge of word processing software, spreadsheet software, inventory software, payroll systems, internet software, human resources systems, and order processing systems.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.

Responsibilities

Drive Safety improvements (Zero Harm) across the Plant.
Provide leadership to Plant staff to effectively recruit, train, develop, evaluate, motivate, delegate and monitor their activities.
Direct the work of all facility employees – establish production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods.
Directly responsible for all employment decisions at the facility.
Continually review operations activities, including local transportation activities to maintain compliance with all Federal, State and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD).
Direct Plant administration to ensure compliance with established policies.
Develop a balanced approach to maximize the best operational practices and cost efficiencies across the Plant while maintaining critical quality and raw material utilization standards that are necessary to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability.
Drive efficiencies in asset utilization through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, & driver management while meeting customer expectations.
Ensure the consistent execution of all SOPs throughout the Plant and in accordance with the PMS Commercial Organization, Global Supply Chain.
Responsible for the cost and yield performance of the Plant in partnership with the overall P&L of the Plant.
Own and drive cost control initiatives and process control within the Plant.
Implementing the output of the plant network optimization, cell management.
Drive compliance through teamwork for all Standard Operating Procedures within the Plant.
Identify and execute Lean opportunities to effectively eliminate waste.