Plant Superintendent

About the role

This is a key plant leadership position reporting directly to the Plant Manager and responsible for overseeing the day-to-day manufacturing operation, production scheduling, workforce leadership, product quality, cost performance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and direct the activities of manufacturing personnel across the plant.
• Own production scheduling and ensure manufacturing activities align with customer delivery requirements.
• Communicate production schedules, capacity, and current lead times with customer-facing teams.
• Help lead the hiring, development, evaluation, and cross-training of direct labor employees.
• Partner with area managers to ensure employees are effectively trained, evaluated, and utilized.
• Drive plant performance around safety, quality, productivity, cost, and on-time delivery.
• Maintain responsibility for overall quality and cost performance of serviced/manufactured rolls.
• Ensure products and processes meet applicable SPI and industry standards.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives, including LEAN, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), ISO, and related methodologies.
• Oversee assigned capital projects and plant improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with the Plant Manager to identify operational issues, establish priorities, and implement solutions.
• Collaborate with other company manufacturing facilities to improve plant efficiency and share operational best practices.
• Occasionally travel to customer sites and other company facilities as business needs require.

Requirements

• Approximately 8–10+ years of progressive manufacturing experience, ideally within pulp & paper or a related industrial manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading manufacturing employees in a plant environment.
• Strong knowledge of production operations, scheduling, quality, cost control, and operational efficiency.
• Experience implementing or participating in LEAN and continuous improvement programs.
• The ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure manufacturing environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Word capabilities.
• An undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Willingness to travel occasionally as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary
• Company paid health plan for employees
• Very generous PTO
• Small team, autonomy
• Many more great perks!

Pay

$85,000 – $100,000 per year