Plant Manager

At Engineered Products, we design and manufacture high-performance material handling and storage solutions with a focus on quality, durability, and operational efficiency. We are a fast-paced, growth-oriented manufacturer where execution matters and where strong leaders have the opportunity to drive meaningful impact and advance their careers.

At Engineered Products, we design and manufacture high-performance material handling and storage solutions with a focus on quality, durability, and operational efficiency. We are a fast-paced, growth-oriented manufacturer where execution matters and where strong leaders have the opportunity to drive meaningful impact and advance their careers.

Position:
Plant Manager

Reports to:

President/COO

Location:

Easley, SC

The Plant Manager leads daily operations across Engineered Products’ metal fabrication operation, with accountability for production, Operational Excellence (OpEx), maintenance, tooling, material flow, and shipping & receiving. This high-visibility role drives Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost performance across the full operating value stream.

This is a hands-on, shop-floor leadership role. The successful candidate will recognize what “good” looks like in a high-mix fabrication environment, build capable leaders, ensure equipment and tooling readiness, improve flow, and establish a disciplined operating system that delivers reliable customer, workforce, and financial results.

Leads a multi-shift, single-site manufacturing operation with responsibility for production, maintenance, tooling, Operational Excellence, material flow, and shipping & receiving. Provides direct leadership to plant supervisors and functional leaders while partnering closely with Quality, Engineering, EH&S, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Finance, Sales, and Project Management.

• Operates with an uncompromising Safety Quality Delivery Cost (SQDC) mindset—in that order.
• Spends 50%+ of time on the shop floor, developing people, confirming standards, and driving execution.
• Improves safety performance and closes corrective actions promptly and effectively.
• Improves first-pass yield while reducing scrap, rework, defects, and cost of poor quality.
• Delivers production schedule attainment, on-time delivery, labor productivity, and controlled operating expense.
• Improves equipment uptime, preventive maintenance compliance, tooling readiness, inventory accuracy, and material flow.
• Builds a capable leadership team, effective skills coverage, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Delivers verified OpEx benefits that improve profitability, cash flow, asset utilization, and customer service.

• Lead all plant operations including fabrication, welding, powder coat, assembly, material flow, maintenance, tooling, and shipping & receiving.
• Own execution against the approved production schedule, aligning labor, equipment, tooling, materials, and capacity to customer and backlog priorities.
• Lead daily and weekly operating reviews covering schedule attainment, constraints, staffing, quality, maintenance, and shipment priorities.
• Coordinate with Sales, Project Management, Engineering, Purchasing, and Production Planning to resolve constraints and protect customer commitments.
• Ensure timely and accurate ERP transactions for labor, material movement, production completion, scrap, inventory, shipping, and job status.
• Monitor and actively manage throughput, labor efficiency, schedule attainment, backlog flow, equipment uptime, tooling readiness, inventory accuracy, and on-time shipment.
• Identify constraints across people,…