Assistant Plant Manager - Pallet Manufacturing

About the role

This role is vital in helping plant leadership both when and when they aren’t available. Manage the work of all production employees, oversee production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods, provide hands-on leadership as a working manager, directly responsible for all employment decisions at the facility, support plant administration to ensure compliance with established policies, support and implement cost-control initiatives and process control within the Plant, continually review operations activities, including local transportation activities to maintain compliance with all Federal, State, and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD), drive safety improvements across the Plant, maintain critical quality and raw material utilization standards to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability, provide leadership to Plant staff and effectively motivate, delegate, and monitor their activities, assist with recruiting and to train and develop all staff, drive efficiencies through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, and driver management.

Responsibilities

• Manage the work of all production employees
• Oversee production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods
• Provide hands-on leadership as a working manager
• Directly responsible for all employment decisions at the facility
• Support plant administration to ensure compliance with established policies
• Support and implement cost-control initiatives and process control within the Plant
• Continually review operations activities, including local transportation activities to maintain compliance with all Federal, State, and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD)
• Drive safety improvements across the Plant
• Maintain critical quality and raw material utilization standards to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability
• Provide leadership to Plant staff and effectively motivate, delegate, and monitor their activities
• Aid with recruiting and training and development of all staff
• Drive efficiencies through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, and driver management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 3+ years in a plant/warehouse supervisory role
• Familiarity with private fleet management/transportation is helpful
• Expert people management capability including non-exempt production workforce
• Experience managing safety performance and programs
• Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics

Qualifications

• Ability to work in extreme conditions to include, but not limited to, elements, heat, cold, and air particulate
• Repetitively lift up to 50-75 pounds and adjust body position to bend, stoop, walk, turn, pivot, and stand for entire shifts of varying lengths in time
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required (eye protection, ear protection is mandatory at several locations, safety shoes)

Skills

• Expert people management capability including non-exempt production workforce
• Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics

Benefits

• Competitive Pay, Holiday Pay, and Daily Pay - Access to your earned wages before payday!
• Referral Bonuses
• Long-Term Career Advancement
• Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, AD&D, and Short-Term & Long-Term Disability insurance for Eligible Full Time Employees
• 401(k) Retirement Plan

Schedule

• Great Team Environment

Pay

USD $60,000.00 - USD $70,000.00 /Yr.