Plant Manager

Plant Operations Leader

You'll lead daily operations at a small chemical blending, packaging, warehousing, and fulfillment site that is preparing for continued growth.

You'll Want to Explore this Opportunity Because:

• You'll work with a passionate, visionary CEO who values collaboration, continuous improvement, and practical innovation. He listens to good ideas, sets a clear tone for the organization, and enables success.
• This is a growth role in a profitable company, not a cost-cutting assignment. The business is self-sustaining, scaling faster than expected, and able to invest in people, equipment, and manufacturing improvements.
• You'll lead a salt-of-the-earth, dedicated, hands-on team that has helped increase output 3x over the past year and now needs a practical plant leader to help strengthen systems and guide continued growth.

What You'll Be Doing:

Lead day-to-day plant operations at a dry-powder blending, packaging, warehousing, fulfillment, and shipping operation, while improving safe work practice consistency, production flow, quality, and readiness for future expansion.

• Establish clear priorities, expectations, communication routines, and accountability across the site.
• Strengthen safety practices, quality, housekeeping, dust-control practices, and material handling techniques.
• Document current operating practices, add formal training expectations, and guide the plant toward more repeatable, standardized work processes to help facilitate seamless future growth.
• Identify and support practical improvements in production flow, labor utilization, equipment layout, batch and packaging flow, warehouse layout, equipment upgrades, automation opportunities, and future capacity needs.
• Help move the plant from reactive maintenance toward a more preventive maintenance structure.

Work Location:

• Onsite near Orlando / Daytona Beach, Florida.

What You'll Bring to the Job:

Practical, hands-on plant leadership in a small manufacturing environment.

• A 4-year business or engineering degree is helpful but not required. Equivalent hands-on plant leadership experience will be considered.
• Approximately 1015+ years of manufacturing or plant operations leadership experience, ideally including leadership in a small or mid-sized manual batch chemical manufacturing environment or related operation, such as dry ingredients, food production, industrial baking, or similar.
• Down-to-earth, hands-on leadership style that will be respected by manufacturing employees.
• Practical experience improving safety, quality, labor efficiency, equipment reliability, and process documentation.
• Best fits will have, but this is not required:
  • Experience specifically with solids blending, powder handling, packaging, and dust-control considerations.
  • Additional background in a modern plant with packaging and batching automation, a preventive maintenance program, and formalized safety systems.
  • Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer without sponsorship now or in the future.