Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, performance, and daily operation of the Lavonia manufacturing facility. The Plant Manager is accountable for setting clear goals, communicating production requirements, developing plant leadership, improving manufacturing performance, advancing technology and innovation, and maintaining a safe, respectful, and high-performing workplace.

• Lead daily plant operations to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer service objectives.
• Establish and communicate daily, weekly, and monthly production goals based on customer demand, staffing, equipment capacity, inventory needs, and business priorities.
• Ensure supervisors understand production requirements, communicate expectations to employees, and are accountable for results.
• Monitor performance against plan and take timely corrective action when production, quality, staffing, or equipment performance is off target.
• Lead routine operating reviews to communicate results, identify barriers, assign actions, and establish priorities.
• Ensure effective shift-to-shift communication regarding production priorities, equipment conditions, staffing, quality concerns, and schedule changes.
• Coordinate across Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Scheduling, Supply Chain, Quality, Safety, Human Resources, and Finance to minimize downtime and remove operational barriers.
• Maintain strong plant-floor visibility and use KPI-driven decision making, standard work, and disciplined operating routines.

• Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and plant leaders to build a high-performing and engaged workforce.
• Establish clear expectations for leadership, communication, performance, accountability, and employee development.
• Ensure policies, attendance expectations, work rules, safety requirements, and performance standards are applied fairly and consistently.
• Partner with Human Resources on employee relations, investigations, performance management, staffing, retention, succession planning, and employee engagement.
• Support workforce planning, scheduling, overtime management, cross‑training, onboarding, job qualification, and skills certification.
• Address employee and leadership concerns promptly and promote respectful, proactive communication.
• Identify high‑potential employees and leaders and support development and career progression.
• Encourage employee recognition, involvement, feedback, and participation in problem solving and continuous improvement.

• Maintain strong working knowledge of textile manufacturing, including yarn preparation, twisting, beaming, weaving, inspection, finishing, material handling, and related processes.
• Understand how materials, machine settings, equipment condition, operating methods, and process parameters affect quality, throughput, waste, and downstream performance.
• Understand how textile components support conveyor belting manufacturing and customer requirements.
• Partner with Engineering, Quality, Production, and Maintenance to resolve technical and process issues.
• Ensure operating procedures, machine standards, and process parameters are established, understood, and consistently followed.
• Support technical training and development for supervisors, operators, and maintenance personnel.
• Evaluate equipment, process, and technical improvements that increase safety, reliability, quality, capacity, and efficiency.

• Champion a strong safety culture focused on prevention, accountability, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, environmental regulations, corporate standards, and plant procedures.
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