Assistant Plant Manager

Salem, Ohio. Fully onsite, floor-based operational leadership role inside a high-output acrylics, thermoforming, HIPS, and fiberglass reinforced plastics (FRP) manufacturing environment. Standard operating schedule is Monday–Thursday, 5:30 AM–4:00 PM; however, the role requires flexibility to support extended hours, Friday/Saturday coverage, and sustained floor presence during periods of operational escalation or production stabilization. Consistent visibility and direct engagement on the production floor are essential components of the mandate.

American Bath Group is one of North America’s largest manufacturers of bathware products, serving residential, commercial, hospitality, and builder markets across multiple manufacturing operations. The Salem facility plays a critical role inside the broader operation and is currently focused on strengthening execution consistency, operational discipline, labor stability, and production reliability across its manufacturing environment.

The site operates within a technically demanding production environment involving acrylics, thermoforming, HIPS, and fiberglass reinforced plastics (FRP) manufacturing processes.

This role exists because the Salem operation needs stronger operational leadership depth during an important stabilization and operational improvement period.

The Assistant Plant Manager will operate as the Plant Manager’s right hand and help strengthen the operating foundation across production, supervisors, labor, maintenance coordination, accountability systems, operational planning, and execution discipline.

This is not a maintenance-mode leadership role inside a mature operating environment. The plant is actively working to improve production consistency, labor reliability, process discipline, operational planning capability, and organizational stability while continuing to meet demanding production expectations.

The role is highly visible and carries significant influence across operations, supervisors, engineering, maintenance, and frontline production teams. The individual who succeeds here will help shape the future operating structure and leadership foundation of the facility.

Success in this role will be defined by the ability to help create a more stable, accountable, and reliable operating environment across the Salem facility.

Within the first year, the Assistant Plant Manager is expected to improve schedule attainment, strengthen production execution consistency, reduce operational firefighting, improve labor onboarding and retention, strengthen accountability across supervisors and operators, and improve communication and coordination across production, maintenance, and engineering functions.

The role will also be measured by its ability to improve operational discipline through stronger KPI management, escalation ownership, production follow-through, and day-to-day leadership presence on the floor.

By the end of year one, the operation should be less dependent on constant escalation support from senior leadership and better positioned for long-term operational stability.

The Assistant Plant Manager will help lead plant execution across a complex manufacturing environment operating under sustained production demands and ongoing operational improvement initiatives.

This role requires a leader capable of simultaneously driving production reliability, labor accountability, execution discipline, maintenance coordination, and leadership consistency across the plant.

The position is heavily floor-oriented and execution-focused. The successful leader must be comfortable operating directly inside production while helping strengthen the broader operating system around it.

The role requires immediate operational ownership and the ability to influence across supervisors, operators, engineering, maintenance, and plant leadership teams.

• Improve production schedule attainment and output consistency across operations.
• Reduce scrap, repair rates, and process variability across acrylics and HIPS manufacturing.
• Strengthen labor onboarding, accountability, and frontline…