Plant Manager

NUVIDA is a sister company of Sabert and is one of the world's leading processors and suppliers of food-grade recycled plastic resins. The Plant Manager is ultimately responsible for achieving the forecasted production levels of quality product while ensuring a safe work environment. The position will lead or direct all production, safety, house-keeping and training activities of production employees to safely ensure on-time production and delivery of quality and legally compliant products. Focus on operational excellence and cost reduction are to be achieved by employing best practices across the plant to realize consistent business results.

ESSENTIAL DUTES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Safety & Housekeeping

• Ensure that all employees are properly trained in safety and that there is a continuous and daily effort to ensure compliance with all OSHA safety standards.

• Ensure that at all times there is a clean and organized manufacturing work environment

Production

• Ensure the targeted levels of daily and weekly volume of quality product is produced

• Minimize downtime; address issues by establishing root cause and coordinating with Engineering for solutions

• Ensure proper training and setup, coordinating with Maintenance to ensure equipment is always in running order; continuously evaluate ways to surpass standards

• Continuously evaluate plans and resources in order to maximize production capability to ensure the plant is reaching its goals

• Coordinate with Information Systems to produce monthly reports of labor, material, and machine efficiency; review reports to identify trends and opportunities for improvement

• Manage material usage, production output, labor cost, scrap rate

• Coordinate with Warehouse/Inventory Manager to ensure the proper staging of material at each work center for continuous production of quality product across all shifts

• Responsible for a 24 hour per day, seven day per week production department

Quality

• Ensure implementation of quality and food safety system for the recycling plant

• Review customer complaints and corrective actions on a regular basis

• Hold regular meetings and reviews to ensure quality and food safety systems are working as intended and facilitate corrective actions wherever necessary

Employee Training

• Ensure all supervisors, team leads, setup employees, operators, grinders, dryers and material processing people know how to execute their jobs

• Ensure all employees are being trained on their core responsibilities

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Fluent in Spanish & English

• Persuasive leadership skills and a desire to coach and train

• Planning, organizing and prioritizing skills

• Mechanical inclination and strong technical ability; must possess troubleshooting and problem solving skills

• Able to work effectively with individuals at all levels (customers, employees, contractors)

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, working knowledge on Microsoft Word and Outlook

• Understand and create layouts of new processes to ensure beneficial results

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• An associate's degree or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years experience working in a plant / production environment
• 5+ years experience in a management / supervisory role

Experience working in recycling or plastics production preferred