Plant Manager

Nutramax desires to provide a drug-free, healthful, and safe workplace. We hold a zero-tolerance policy for drug use. Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a preemployment background check and drug screen (subject to applicable law).

The standard hours for this position are Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm, and may vary as the Plant Manager supports 1st shift (Monday – Friday 7:00am – 3:30pm), 2nd shift (Monday – Friday 3:15pm – 11:30pm) and 3rd shift (Sunday – Thursday 11:15pm – 7:15am).

This role is 100% on site at our Headquarters location: 946 Quality Drive, Lancaster, SC 29720.

The Plant Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, performance, and strategic direction of a nutraceutical manufacturing facility. This role is accountable for achieving world-class performance in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People Development while ensuring compliance with all GMP, regulatory, environmental, and company standards.

The Plant Manager leads plant operations through a matrix organization and collaborates closely with functional leaders in Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Quality, Human Resources, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), and Supply Chain to achieve business objectives and drive sustainable operational excellence.

The successful candidate must possess proven experience implementing Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence methodologies, with demonstrated success transforming manufacturing operations to significantly improve safety performance, process and product quality, operational reliability, labor productivity, equipment effectiveness, and cost competitiveness.

This position serves as the senior operational leader for the facility and is responsible for developing and executing short- and long-term site strategies that support business growth, capacity expansion, new product introductions, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

• Develop and execute the manufacturing site's strategic plan aligned with corporate objectives.
• Establish annual operating plans, productivity targets, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Drive achievement of key business metrics related to Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, and Employee Engagement.
• Lead site readiness for growth initiatives, capacity expansion projects, new product commercialization, and technology implementation.
• Foster a culture of accountability, operational discipline, continuous improvement, and employee development.
• Partner with senior leadership to support long-term business growth and operational capabilities.

• Champion Lean Manufacturing principles across all plant operations.
• Lead transformation efforts utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Daily Management Systems, Visual Factory, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Standard Work, A3 Problem Solving, Root Cause Analysis, and 5S methodologies.
• Drive elimination of waste, inefficiencies, downtime, rework, deviations, scrap, changeover losses, and other Hidden Factory activities.
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement through employee engagement and problem-solving at all levels.
• Lead plant-wide Operational Excellence initiatives designed to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), labor productivity, throughput, and asset utilization.
• Ensure sustainable implementation of continuous improvement systems and performance management processes.

• Direct overall manufacturing operations to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient production.
• Ensure production schedules are executed to meet customer demand, process and product quality standards,…