Plant Manager

American Bath Group is a leading North American manufacturer of bathware products, serving residential, commercial, wholesale, and retail channels through a broad manufacturing and distribution network.

The Salem, Ohio facility is a strategically important manufacturing operation supporting multiple production processes and product lines within a complex manufacturing environment. The site has also absorbed manufacturing volume and operational responsibility from previously consolidated operations, creating a uniquely challenging leadership opportunity requiring strong operational discipline, workforce leadership, and execution consistency.

The facility is currently in an active period of operational stabilization and requires a hands‑on Plant Manager capable of strengthening execution, rebuilding accountability, developing frontline leadership, and creating a more durable operating structure across the operation.

This is a high‑impact Plant Manager role for a manufacturing leader who has successfully stepped into challenging environments and created stability, accountability, and improved performance.

The Salem operation is not looking for a maintenance‑mode leader. The site needs a visible, floor‑oriented Plant Manager who can build trust, strengthen frontline leadership, improve accountability, and create a more consistent operating rhythm while meeting aggressive production demands.

Just as importantly, this role requires a leader who can rebuild confidence in plant leadership, improve workforce engagement, and create stronger alignment between leadership expectations and day‑to‑day execution.

The operation effectively functions as multiple manufacturing ecosystems under one roof, requiring a leader capable of integrating teams, processes, and priorities while creating a unified culture of accountability and performance.

The role exists because the plant is moving through a critical leadership transition and needs a central operating leader who can create steadiness, reduce reactive firefighting, strengthen leadership credibility, and build a more sustainable management system across production, maintenance, engineering, planning, quality, distribution, and procurement.

This role is not inheriting a mature operating environment. The incoming Plant Manager will step into a facility still stabilizing following acquisition integration, manufacturing consolidation, ERP transition activity, and leadership turnover.

In the first year, success will be defined by the plant becoming more predictable, more disciplined, and less dependent on constant leadership intervention to maintain daily execution.

The successful Plant Manager will improve throughput reliability, strengthen labor consistency, rebuild accountability rhythms, mature frontline leadership, improve planning discipline, and reduce the level of reactive escalation required to keep the operation moving.

Success will also require rebuilding confidence in plant leadership, improving frontline engagement, developing supervisors, and creating greater consistency between leadership expectations and daily operational execution.

By the end of Year One, the Salem operation should demonstrate visible improvement in:

• Production flow
• Schedule adherence
• Shift‑to‑shift consistency
• Quality discipline
• Labor accountability
• Supervisory ownership
• Cross‑functional coordination

The operation should also demonstrate stronger execution continuity without excessive dependence on reactive problem‑solving or individual heroics.

The mandate is to stabilize and mature the Salem operation following a critical leadership transition by rebuilding accountability systems, strengthening supervisory leadership, improving labor consistency, reducing operational firefighting, and creating sustainable execution discipline across a complex manufacturing environment while maintaining aggressive production demands.

This role requires both direct operational leadership and operating‑system build capability. The Plant Manager must be able to lead from the floor, establish credibility quickly, make decisions under pressure, and install the leadership…