Plant Manager

Pacific Woodtech Corp•Burlington, WA

10m•$120,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Manager oversees the production, safety, maintenance, and quality assurance functions of our Burlington Plant. The Plant Manager is a multitasker that will coordinate the plant’s manufacturing processes to ensure compliance with company objectives, quality systems, and customer expectations.

Requirements

Leadership team development experience in Manufacturing or similar business is required.
Advanced degree such as business administration, manufacturing engineering, applied economics, MBA along with at least 5 years of progressive leadership experience in environment similar to PWT.
Form education can be substituted with at least 20 years of related and progressive business/ leadership experience.
Ability to communicate with government agencies, customers vendors, PWT SMT on key issues.
Understanding of analytical methods and statistical analysis principles.
Advanced computer literacy (Office 365 suite), NetSuite, Excel Tools development, Basic ODBC Query development.
Ability to interact and collaborate with SMT and staff roles outside your team (Accounting, IT, Supply Chain).
Ability to successfully lead large organization (100+ employees) in manufacturing environment including shipping is required.

Responsibilities

Accountable for all aspects of PWT Burlington operations, including inbound/outbound freight.
Ownership of factory Safety Culture and oversee Safety Management System (assuring training, accountability, continuous improvement systems).
Assure L&I and OSHA requirements are met.
Sponsor Safety Committee.
Compliance to environmental standards and permits.
Ownership of factory employee administrative systems including hiring/termination, onboarding, promotions for hourly and salary employees.
Succession planning for leadership/technical roles.
Develop and nurture a collaborative and diverse team of contributors.
Sponsor and help build positive and successful team culture.
Oversight of QC, Maintenance, and Operations teams (Press, Products, Shipping, Scheduling) and direct Manager of the department Managers and Supervisors.
Assure adherence to Quality management System (QC standards).
Continuous improvement in Maintenance Management System, Quality Management System and Operations Management Systems.
Accountable for production budget, scheduling and volume achievement, unsold reclaim production decisions, work order decisions.
Analyze factory data, including PR, to maintain current understanding of performance.
Manage and report on safety, quality, production, and cost elements pertaining to budget/forecasting (provide reporting to VP on weekly, monthly basis).
Manage/control plant expenses.
Understand products costing and gain ability to utilize costing models to drive efficiency/understanding production decisions.
Responsible for continuous improvement systems for efficiency. Data driven systems that continues to improve (PR).
Frequent speaking role in quarterly crew meetings.
Contribute to company policy refinement (team activity) and implementation.
Develop, communicate, nurture the vision for the plant culture.
Coordinate with Director of Manufacturing on budget and lead the development annual CAPEX plans.
Oversee implementation of CAPEX.
Accountable for actuals vs. budget for CAPEX.
Responsible for project management on key CAPEX projects.
Support Director of Manufacturing in strategic and tactical planning discussions, budgeting, forecasting, and planning, business development analysis, account assessment for Operations, company policy modifications, work system improvements.
Other duties as assigned.