Multi-Site Plant Manager

About the role

Our client is seeking an experienced Multi-Site Plant Manager to lead manufacturing operations across multiple facilities, with responsibility for safety, quality, customer service, operational performance, cost management, and continuous improvement. This position provides strategic and day-to-day leadership to ensure manufacturing operations achieve production, quality, financial, and customer service objectives. The Multi-Site Plant Manager will develop plant leadership teams, optimize the use of equipment, materials, and labor, and drive operational excellence across the organization. This role requires a hands-on manufacturing leader who can effectively manage multiple locations, build high-performing teams, strengthen customer relationships, and implement sustainable improvements across plant operations.

Responsibilities

• Multi-Site Operations Leadership: Provide leadership and direction for day-to-day manufacturing operations across multiple plant locations.
• Develop and execute strategic and tactical operating plans aligned with plant and company objectives.
• Oversee production planning to ensure customer requirements for quality, service, cost, and delivery are consistently achieved.
• Monitor plant performance, identify operational gaps, and implement corrective actions to improve results.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Service to maximize plant capacity, utilization, and responsiveness to customer requirements.
• Serve as the plant-level project leader for new initiatives involving equipment, molds, processes, and other operational improvements.
• Support special projects and cross-functional initiatives as required.
• Travel between plant locations and other business locations as needed, up to 50%.
• Safety & Compliance: Lead a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with all established safety, health, quality, GMP, and company policies and procedures.
• Develop and support safety training programs, plant safety meetings, audits, and corrective action initiatives.
• Encourage employee participation in safety improvement, suggestion, and recognition programs.
• Ensure plant leadership teams maintain consistent safety and compliance standards across operations.
• Quality & Customer Service: Lead plant quality initiatives and ensure products consistently meet company and customer requirements.
• Oversee corrective actions resulting from customer complaints, internal quality concerns, and audit findings.
• Coordinate new product qualifications and participate in internal and external quality system audits.
• Develop and implement corrective action plans to address quality and operational performance issues.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships while identifying opportunities to improve service, processes, and supply chain efficiency.
• Financial & Operational Performance: Review plant operating results and ensure manufacturing costs remain within established budgets and performance targets.
• Drive effective utilization of labor, equipment, materials, and plant resources.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, reduce operating costs, and increase manufacturing efficiency.
• Participate in monthly, quarterly, and year-end physical inventories in accordance with corporate requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Develop and execute short- and long-term continuous improvement plans across plant operations.
• Utilize Operational Excellence, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and other continuous improvement methodologies to improve safety, quality, cost, productivity, and service.
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives and establish measurable performance objectives.
• Promote standardization and sharing of best practices across plant locations.
• People Leadership & Development: Select, train, coach, develop, and retain plant leadership and operational personnel.
• Establish clear expectations and accountability for safety, quality, productivity, customer service, and financial performance.
• Build collaborative, high-performing teams focused on achieving organizational objectives.
• Promote an open-door, team-oriented work environment that encourages communication, employee involvement, and continuous improvement.
• Develop leadership capabilities and succession plans to support the long-term needs of the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant plant management experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of operations leadership, supervisory, or management experience within a manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading manufacturing operations and developing plant leadership teams.
• Multi-site manufacturing leadership experience preferred.
• Experience managing plant budgets, production performance, quality, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or Operational Excellence methodologies preferred.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production planning, resource utilization, and cost management.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership, coaching, and team-development skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with employees, leadership, customers, vendors, and cross-functional partners.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.