Plant Manager

Company Summary

For over 60 years, Meri Cal has been at the forefront of innovation in the dietary supplement industry, delivering custom manufacturing and packaging solutions with passion and precision. With state‑of‑the‑art facilities in Southern California and Ogden, UT, we transform ideas into high‑quality products—from research and development to the finished products. Our team, with over 30 years of combined experience, is dedicated to crafting exceptional gummies, probiotics, tablets, capsules, chewables, and powders using clinically backed ingredients.

At Meri Cal, we don’t just meet expectations—we exceed them, every time. Join us and be part of a dynamic, forward‑thinking team shaping the future of nutrition!

NO EXTERNAL RECRUITERS PLEASE

• No Sponsorship/Transfer Available**

The Opportunity

The Plant Manager plans, directs, coordinates, oversees production, maintenance, inventory control, safety, employee appraisals, employee operator training to ensure all policies and procedures to include Meri Cal’s SOP’s and cGMP’s are being adhered to. The Plant Manager will ensure all shifts are staffed accordingly to ensure all customer demands are met on time with 100% quality to meet or exceed customer expectations.

The Plant Manager reports directly to the VP of Manufacturing Operations.

What You’ll Do

• Utilizes information systems for the purpose of inputting data, scheduling, inventory control, purchasing, billing, pricing, payroll and other Meri Cal functions necessary to perform the job of a Plant Manager.
• Maintains valuable production records such as quality control cleaning logs, QC.
• Batch packaging sheets, and other important paperwork needed to correctly process a job through our system.
• Manages, supports, coordinates, controls and communicates all actions regarding activities in production to ensure the department is functioning effectively and efficiently to increase profitability.
• Responsible for the quality of the product being run on the production line as well as ensuring that the product is produced with the highest level of quality to meet or exceed customer expectation.
• Conduct meetings with the employees along with conducting training to include:
  • Safety Training for all new and existing employees.
  • Operator training to include actual machine hands‑on‑training.
  • Batch Records.
  • Component and finish goods.
• Responsible for the P/L of their areas of responsibility and makes the necessary adjustments to show profitability to Meri Cal’s bottom line such as the following:
  • Improves efficiencies for the increased productivity through better process controls and labor utilization.
  • Trains a solid core of supervisors and leads that will train, motivate, and communicate to the employees to improve the overall morale and efficiencies of the department.
  • Utilizes optimal labor to produce product.
  • Reduces costly sort, scrap, and rework to bulk and component products.
  • Reduces overtime hours.
  • Effective maintenance programs and systems are in place to all equipment and tools are functioning properly with the highest degree of efficiency.
• Responsible for ensuring that all employee appraisals are written, processed and given to their employees on time with expected goals and objectives that will benefit both the employee and Meri Cal.
• Responsible for scheduling all jobs in the department in an effective and efficient manner that will reduce down time while increasing productivity.
• Communicate with customer service on job status, problems or any other information needed to communicate with the customer on the status of their order.
• The Plant Manager serves multiple roles and must be able to perform several tasks to meet or exceed customer demands or other commitments or other important company issues.

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in a high‑volume manufacturing and packaging facility as a Plant Manager.
• Knowledge of critical computer programs is necessary to track, schedule, produce and ship high volumes of quality products.
• Possess solid leadership skills necessary to manage, direct and train all employees to be able to run an efficient operation.
• Must have first‑hand knowledge of processing and…