Plant Director

Company Summary

For over 60 years, Meri Cal has been at the forefront of innovation in the dietary supplement industry, delivering custom manufacturing and packaging solutions with passion and precision. With state‑of‑the‑art facilities in Southern California and Ogden, UT, we transform ideas into high‑quality products—from research and development to the finished products. Our team, with over 30 years of combined experience, is dedicated to crafting exceptional gummies, probiotics, tablets, capsules, chewables, and powders using clinically backed ingredients.

At Meri Cal, we don’t just meet expectations—we exceed them, every time. Join us and be part of a dynamic, forward‑thinking team shaping the future of nutrition!

The Plant Director plans, directs, coordinates, oversees production, maintenance, inventory control, safety, employee appraisals, and employee operator training. This role ensures compliance with all company policies and procedures, including Meri Cal's SOPs and cGMPs. The Plant Director will ensure all shifts are staffed to meet customer demands on time with 100% quality to meet or exceed expectations.

• Utilizes information systems for the purpose of inputting data, scheduling, inventory control, purchasing, billings, pricing, payroll and other Meri Cal functions necessary to perform the job as a Plant Director.
• Maintains valuable production records such as quality control cleaning, QC batch packaging sheets, and other important paperwork needed to correctly process a job through our system.
• Manages, supports, coordinates, controls and communicates all actions regarding activities in production to ensure the department is functioning effectively and efficiently to increase profitability.
• Responsible for the quality of the product being run on the production line as well as ensuring the product is produced with the highest level of quality to meet or exceed customer expectation.
• Conducts meetings with the employees and conducts training to include:
  • Safety training for all new and existing employees.
  • Operator training to include actual machine hands‑on training.
  • Batch Records
  • Component of finished goods
• Responsible for the P/L of their areas of responsibility and makes the necessary adjustments to show profitability to Meri Cal's bottom line such as the following:
  • Improve efficiencies for increased productivity through better process controls and labor utilization.
  • Trains a solid core of supervisors and leads that will train, motivate, and communicate to the employees to improve the overall morale and efficiencies of the department.
  • Utilizes optimal labor to produce product.
  • Reduces costly sort, scrap, and rework for bulk and component products.
  • Reduces overtime hours.
• Effective maintenance programs and systems are in place to ensure all equipment and tooling are functioning properly with the highest degree of efficiency.
• Responsible for ensuring that all employee appraisals are written, processed and given to their employees on time with expected goals and objectives that will benefit both the employee and Meri Cal.
• Responsible for scheduling all jobs in the department in an effective and efficient manner that will reduce downtime while increasing productivity.
• Communicates with customer service on the job status, problems or any other information needed to communicate with the customer on the status of their order.
• The Plant Director serves multiple roles and must be able to perform several tasks to meet or exceed customer demands or other commitments or other important company issues.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Business and/or experience working in a manufacturing organization.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience as a Plant Director in a high-volume manufacturing and packaging facility.
• Knowledge of critical computer programs necessary to track, schedule, produce, and ship high volumes of quality product.
• Possess solid leadership skills necessary to manage, direct and train all employees to run an efficient operation.
• First‑hand knowledge of processing and packaging vitamin products and knowledge of FDA rules and regulations as it pertains to cGMPs and…