Plant Manager

Location

Las Vegas, NV

• Operational excellence and P&L management for the Plant.
• Specific duties entail: production operations, process engineering, environment & safety, customer relations, purchasing, facilities quality, project management, planning & scheduling, employee & labour relations
• Lead all plant operations with full accountability for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and environmental performance in a highly regulated process‑manufacturing environment
• Ensure compliance with EH&S, PSM, and regulatory standards while fostering a proactive, zero incident safety culture
• Drive Lean Manufacturing principles including 5S, standard work, visual management, waste reduction, and Kaizen events
• Apply Six Sigma methodologies to reduce process variation, improve yields, and enhance product consistency
• Champion Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) to improve equipment reliability, asset utilization, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Establish and actively manage KPIs for safety, throughput, yield, downtime, quality, energy use, and cost performance
• Lead cross functional teams across Operations, Maintenance, Quality, and Engineering to support continuous improvement initiatives
• Meets or exceeds cost, efficiency, utilization, quality, and schedule performance objectives as outlined in the Annual Business Plan.
• A strong P&L/Business Partner orientation relative to Plant Manager duties is highly desirable as is an understanding Operational impact on financial performance.
• Functions as a “change agent” who can manage integration of new processes, training, systems, and metrics to measure continuous improvement and organizational excellence.
• Collaborates with Environmental, Health and Safety lead to manage and direct all safety and environmental compliance matters (state, local & federal), ensuring the integrity of the business’s operations and the welfare of the employees.
• Evaluates, develops, and improves the overall capabilities and depth of the plant’s technical, operational and managerial resources.
• This manager must be able to select, train, develop and promote employees in a manner consistent with building a “world class” operation.
• Responsible for building a strong plant operations management team, training and cross training appropriate backups and continuing to develop a collaborative employee environment/culture.
• Periodically conduct manpower reviews, succession planning and performance reviews of the operations management team, as appropriate.
• Prepares detailed production and cost reduction plans, budgets and program/project plans responding to infrastructure and equipment priorities, capacity, overhead absorption strategies, cost structure, inventory/WIP, capital needs, etc.
• Directs the utilization and application, as appropriate, of manufacturing systems, metrics and controls.
• Aggressively manages deviations from plan and implements corrective action programs (Maximize yields and productivity).
• Maintains excellent communications with internal and external customers, key executives.
• Creates a positive culture conducive to organizational success, employee growth and retention of staff. Responsible for timely and effective employee selection and improvement of employee retention and development.
• Effective development of followership and successful leadership management of employees.

• The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 – 5 years of operations leadership experience directing several of the following disciplines
• Successfully demonstrated track record of driving operational and cultural improvements for full facility turn around.
• Production operations, project management, master scheduling, supplier relations & purchasing
• Environme…