Plant Superintendent

About the role

Opportunity to join a growing global paper and pulp powerhouse as the next Plant Superintendent. Partnering with a well-established global industrial manufacturing organization seeking an experienced Plant Superintendent for its Concord, New Hampshire operation. 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. The ideal candidate is a hands-on manufacturing leader who understands how to keep a plant operating safely and efficiently while balancing production demands, customer delivery expectations, quality, and workforce development. Experience within the pulp & paper industry, paper mills, roll services, or a closely related heavy industrial manufacturing environment would be particularly valuable. This role offers meaningful ownership over plant performance while working directly with plant leadership to improve production, quality, workforce capabilities, and operational efficiency.

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.
• 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.
• Willingness to travel occasionally as needed.

Qualifications

An undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Skills

• Strong Microsoft Excel and Word capabilities
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

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