Plant Manager

About Cascades

Cascades believes in the success of an inclusive organization that values diversity within its team. We have been a source of possibilities since 1964, providing sustainable, innovative, and value-creating solutions in packaging, hygiene, and recovery. Join 9,000 talents working in a network of almost 65 operating units located in North America.

Responsibilities

• Lead all plant operations to achieve safety, quality, production, and financial objectives.
• Drive a strong safety culture through visible leadership and accountability.
• Improve reliability through preventive/predictive maintenance, planning, scheduling, and root cause analysis.
• Optimize paper machine performance, equipment uptime, productivity, and product quality.
• Manage plant financial performance, including cost per ton, labor, maintenance, fiber, chemical, and energy costs.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using data-driven problem-solving methods.
• Develop and strengthen leadership, technical, and hourly teams.
• Build and execute recovery plans for underperforming operations with measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or related field preferred.
• 15+ years of manufacturing leadership experience in tissue, paper, pulp, or related process industries.
• Proven experience leading paper machine operations and driving performance improvements.
• Demonstrated success managing operational turnarounds and improving underperforming facilities.
• Strong knowledge of papermaking processes, maintenance and reliability systems, continuous improvement, and plant financial management.
• Proven ability to lead large teams, develop talent, and drive organizational change.

Preferred Experience

• Tissue manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Progressive leadership experience from Operations/Production Management into Plant or Mill Leadership.
• Track record of improving safety, OEE, uptime, quality, productivity, and cost performance.

Benefits

• Salary starting at $160k plus yearly with room to grow as you progress in your career.
• Telemedicine and group insurance.
• Profit Sharing Plan.
• Retirement Plan with company matching.
• Stock Options & Annual flexible reimbursement program.
• Employee assistance program (physical and mental health support).