Pellet Mills Plant Manager

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The Plant Manager is the senior operational leader responsible for the overall performance, productivity, and safety of WCB Outdoor Brands BBQ pellet manufacturing facility in Peebles, Ohio. This role oversees all aspects of plant operations, including production, maintenance, quality, safety, logistics, planning, and continuous improvement to deliver high‑quality pellets that support WCB Outdoor Brands premium products.

The Plant Manager drives operational excellence through strong leadership, cross‑functional alignment, and disciplined execution. This includes ensuring world‑class safety performance, maximizing production throughput, maintaining equipment reliability, managing costs, developing talent, and achieving key performance objectives in alignment with company strategy. The Plant Manager serves as the primary decision maker for day‑to‑day plant operations and a key contributor to long‑term operational planning.

• Lead and oversee all plant departments including production, maintenance, quality, safety, and warehouse and logistics.
• Establish clear priorities, goals, and performance expectations across all shifts to ensure reliable, efficient, and safe operations.
• Coach, mentor, and develop plant leadership team members to build capability, accountability, and bench strength.
• Promote WCB Bradley culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence.
• Ensure adequate staffing levels, talent development plans, and succession planning for key roles.

• Direct daily production operations to meet volume, quality, and delivery requirements.
• Optimize production scheduling, material flow, and resource allocation to maximize throughput and reduce operating costs.
• Work closely with maintenance leadership to ensure equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and effectively execute preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Drive operational discipline in adherence to standard operating procedures, process controls, and standard work.
• Monitor production performance and adjust operations to meet planned targets.

• Champion the Safety First culture and ensure consistent compliance with OSHA, NFPA, and combustible dust standards.
• Ensure timely reporting, investigation, and corrective action for safety incidents.
• Oversee quality assurance processes to ensure pellet specifications, consistency, and performance meet brand standards.
• Maintain compliance with company policies, environmental regulations, and industry safety codes.

• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives using lean, Six Sigma, and reliability centered maintenance principles.
• Identify and eliminate sources of waste, inefficiency, and downtime.
• Drive cost improvements in labor, materials, scrap, and energy while maintaining or improving output quality.
• Utilize data to identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and improve overall equipment effectiveness.

• Monitor and report key operational metrics including:
• Safety performance
• Overall equipment effectiveness and throughput
• Scrap, rework, and yield
• Mean time between failures, mean time to repair, maintenance schedule compliance, maintenance backlog, and downtime
• Labor and overhead cost performance
• Service level and order fulfillment performance
• Analyze production data and lead corrective action plans to meet targets.
• Prepare operational reports and present performance results to senior leadership.

• Partner with engineering on capital projects, equipment upgrades, and long term asset optimization.
• Collaborate with supply chain, planning, and procurement on materials, scheduling, and inventory management.
• Work closely with quality…