Plant Manager

About the role

At Vestis®, we provide uniforms, workplace supplies, and professional cleaning that help businesses simplify their workday and keep their teams safe, confident, and focused on what matters most. Join us and build a career supporting the people who make it all work.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the market center is consistent in its management and application of safety tasks and activities.
• Manage the day-to-day production plant operation activities at Market Center. Ensure processing takes place in a safe, timely, cost-effective, and efficient manner.
• Activities to be managed include wastewater/environmental compliance, facility & equipment maintenance, receiving and soil sorting/classification, wash aisle garment finishing/sortation, allied finishing, bundling and distribution, sets, and ensure plant operation goals are met for the efficient, timely, quality, and profitable completion of activities for a given product.
• Work with the maintenance team to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective review of equipment, energy, and wastewater processing.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with Market Center Management team and keep them informed of plant operation issues.
• Leverage resources of Operation Support team as needed to address and overcome plant operation issues.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education (four-years suggested) in Industrial and/or Mechanical Engineering/Technology, business or related discipline or equivalent business/work experience.
• 4-6 years' experience in a corporate production environment with management experience included.
• Proven track record of increasing responsibility with documented business results.
• Proven ability to build effective professional relationships cross-departmentally within a market center and operations support.

Skills

• Knowledge of facility and maintenance, production and processing, linen, product and services, customer and personal service, personnel and human resources.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to work within a fast-paced environment, yet willing and able to work effectively with ambiguous circumstances.
• Experience with quality program standards such as Lean/Six Sigma.

Benefits

Headquartered in Roswell, GA, Vestis® is the second largest provider in the industry with over 300,000 customer locations and approximately 20,000 teammates across North America. Vestis® is a leader in the B2B uniform and workplace supplies category. Vestis® provides clean and safe uniform services and workplace supplies to a broad range of North American customers from Fortune 500 companies to locally owned small businesses across a broad set of end markets. The Company’s comprehensive service offering includes a full-service uniform rental program, cleanroom and other specialty garment processing, floor mats, towels, linens, managed restroom services, first aid supplies and more.

Pay

Vestis® is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, relation, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Schedule

Reasonable Accommodations and the Online Application Process Consistent with Vestis and Canadian Linen’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Vestis or Canadian Linen, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-833-901-8823 or email us at accessibility@vestis.com. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned.

Equal Opportunity

Vestis Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you will find the contact information below to request the appropriate accommodation. Reasonable Accommodations and the Online Application Process Consistent with Vestis and Canadian Linen’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Vestis or Canadian Linen, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-833-901-8823 or email us at accessibility@vestis.com. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned.