Plant Manager

About the role

Responsible for general supervision of all phases of plant operations including production, quality control, high quality customer service, maintenance, receiving, and shipping. To assure that the plant is run in a safe, efficient, and proper manner. Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all departments for the specific facility pertaining to production, administration, distribution, and safety.
• Develop relationships with and provide service to existing customers in efforts to promote customer retention and loyalty.
• Interact with customers to determine better service needs and implement changes accordingly.
• Manage key performance indicators relative to sales growth, collections, productivity, inventory control and profit margins.
• Establish accurate budget projections and work within the designated budget.
• Oversee product quality control and implement efficient changes as necessary.
• Manage aspects of human resources for all departments by hiring, terminating, and reassigning personnel to appropriate tasks as required.
• Assume other duties as assigned.
• Identify deficiencies and implement a plan for continuous improvement.
• Actively reaching out and being involved in the local community.
• Ability to develop leadership at the lead person and foreman levels.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Supervisory responsibilities

• Manage the work of others, including planning, assigning, scheduling and reviewing work, ensuring quality standards.
• Responsible for hiring, terminating, training and developing, reviewing performance and administering corrective action for staff.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED.
• 5+ years of managerial/supervisory experience related to production, operations, and/or distribution.

Preferred requirements:

• Prior experience management in salvage yards.

Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
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