PLANT Manager; Bolingbrook, IL

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Are you ready to join a FIVE-TIME US Best Managed Company? KENT Worldwide™ a family of companies committed to excellence and innovation is hiring a Plant Manager to lead operations at our dry blending facility in Bolingbrook, IL. This key leadership role is responsible for overseeing all aspects of daily plant operations, from production and manufacturing to ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and operational standards.

The Plant Manager will drive process improvements, foster a strong team culture, and champion excellence in stewardship, customer satisfaction, and productivity.

• This is a salaried position with a complete benefit package reporting to the Director of Manufacturing.
• The compensation range for this role is $130,000 to $160,000, in addition to KENT standard benefits (health, dental, vision, 401k). Final compensation is subject to variation based on the candidate’s skills, job responsibilities, location and other pertinent factors.

• Production and maintenance managers, shift supervisors, and plant employees

• Lead staff to ensure production methods and procedures are followed and products are produced safely and efficiently.
• Constantly drive improvements in safety, productivity and efficiencies.
• Coordinate the activities of all departments utilizing excellent communication and developing efficient production methods.
• Display a continuous improvement mindset and use progressive visual tools, production reporting, employee involvement teams, performance measurement, and other techniques to improve facility performance.
• Ensure that Maintenance supports the operation in an effective and efficient manner and prioritizes maintenance reliability programs.
• Utilize production data to manage the facility and provide the company with timely, thorough and accurate information.
• Work with other input departments and their leadership to ensure the service levels from the plant.
• Recommend and research capital improvements to improve efficiencies, quality, or safety.
• Understand the importance of Gemba walks and gaining perspectives first hand.
• Develop and contribute to long term strategic planning for the plant.

• Ensure all plant employees are trained on procedures and adhere to the expectations of regulatory intent.
• Work with the Manager of Quality Assurance to ensure the plant quality assurance facilities, documentation, methods/techniques, and staff capability meet or exceed industry standards.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance personnel and the Production Manager to minimize and eliminate out of specification product produced or shipped.
• When quality incidents do occur, work with Plant staff, the technical staff and the corporate office to take steps against reoccurrence of that issue and to mitigate any ramifications that might arise from the field.
• Monitor all audits, working with Plant staff, the auditing agency and the corporate office to correct all deficiencies in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Ensure Plant facility and grounds meet or exceed the security guidelines set forth by the corporation.

• Work with Operations’ supervisory staff, Safety Director and Safety Committee to ensure a lost time accident rate equivalent to or less than the national safety committee’s average for businesses of our type.
• Be an active member of the plant safety team.
• Display safety mindedness to facility meets core safety procedures.

• Ensure that all employees adhere to GMPs.
• Participate in all Plant sanitation audits and coordinate corrective and preventative actions.
• Work with the Plant staff to ensure all areas of the facility are maintained in a clean, neat and orderly fashion.

• Develop and operate within an approved budget; areas of concentration to include staffing, supplies, maintenance, utilities and capital projects.

• Able to build teams and unlock individual potential.
• Foster a culture that understands and displays the company’s core values.
• Be proactive and…