Plant Manager ​/ Beverage Manufacturer

Plant Manager

NVE Pharmaceuticals is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to lead daily operations at our manufacturing facility in Andover, New Jersey.

This is a key leadership role responsible for driving safe, efficient, compliant, and high-quality plant performance across production, quality, maintenance, warehousing, inventory, and related operational functions. The Plant Manager will provide both strategic direction and hands-on leadership to ensure the facility meets production goals, customer requirements, regulatory expectations, and company performance targets. The ideal candidate is a strong manufacturing leader who can build accountable teams, improve processes, solve problems quickly, and create a culture focused on safety, quality, productivity, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

• Lead all daily plant operations to ensure safety, quality, service, cost, and productivity goals are achieved.
• Provide clear direction, coaching, and accountability to production supervisors, department leaders, and plant personnel.
• Oversee production schedules, labor planning, workflow, and resource allocation to meet customer demand and delivery requirements.
• Monitor plant performance and key operating metrics, including output, efficiency, downtime, quality results, waste, labor utilization, and on-time completion.
• Establish performance expectations and drive accountability throughout the plant.
• Maintain a visible leadership presence on the production floor and actively support supervisors and employees in resolving operational issues.
• Foster a high-performance culture built on teamwork, communication, urgency, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Drive operational excellence by improving production efficiency, reducing downtime, minimizing waste, and strengthening process reliability.
• Identify bottlenecks, recurring issues, and opportunities for improvement in production, staffing, equipment, materials, and workflow.
• Lead or support continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean Manufacturing, root cause analysis, process improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Collaborate with Maintenance to improve equipment reliability, preventive maintenance execution, line performance, and production uptime.
• Support effective line startups, changeovers, new product runs, and process changes.
• Develop sustainable systems and procedures that improve consistency, efficiency, and accountability.

• Work closely with Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Warehousing, Purchasing, Human Resources, Finance, and senior leadership to support plant and business goals.
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure materials, staffing, equipment, documentation, and resources are available to meet production needs.
• Serve as an escalation point for operational, quality, staffing, customer service, supply chain, and production issues.
• Communicate clearly and regularly with leadership regarding plant performance, risks, opportunities, staffing needs, and improvement plans.
• Support customer requirements, business priorities, and company growth initiatives through strong plant execution.

• Lead, mentor, and develop supervisors and plant team members.
• Build a culture of accountability, respect, teamwork, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, employee engagement, and retention efforts.
• Ensure employees understand expectations, performance goals, safety requirements, quality standards, and production priorities.
• Address performance issues promptly and professionally through coaching, follow-up, and appropriate corrective action when needed.
• Develop bench strength and support succession planning within the plant.

• Manage plant labor, materials, supplies, overtime, waste, and operating expenses responsibly.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and capital planning activities.
• Evaluate equipment, staffing, and process needs to support current and future production requirements.
• Recommend and support capital improvement projects that improve safety, quality, capacity, efficiency, or cost performance.

• Minimum of 3 years of progressive manufacturing or operations experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, including supervision of managers, supervisors, or cross-functional plant teams.
• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment such as pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, dietary supplement, food, beverage, cosmetics, chemical, or related production.
• Strong understanding of production planning, manufacturing operations, quality systems, safety requirements, inventory control, and equipment reliability.
• Demonstrated success improving operational performance, reducing downtime, increasing efficiency, and developing teams.
• Experience using production data, KPIs, and performance…