We have an opening for a Block Plant Manager for our plant located in Orlando, FL. The primary function of this position is to lead and manage efficiently the plant production and maintenance operations and respective teams while ensuring compliance with all safety, environmental and corporate policies and regulations. The objective of this position is to ensure the Orlando plant is meeting its budgetary and production objectives by achieving key performance metrics of safety, quality, manufacturing cost, equipment reliability and productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage the strategies, plans and budgets to achieve the organizational and financial objectives of the plant.
- Manage plant staff (operations & maintenance) to ensure timely production and distribution of products within quality standards, high uniformity, and optimum production costs.
- Promote positive behavior in the work environment, while enforcing group policies and providing feedback.
- Define development and training program for employees to ensure motivation and career enhancement for employees in agreement with operational needs.
- Develop and implement improvement strategies to improve the efficiency of production.
- Proactively manage the health & safety of employees to continuously improve the company's health & safety performance, based on company policies and OSHA guidelines.
- Develop, monitor and control cost from operational and capital production expenditures.
- Achieve set budgeted variable and fixed cost targets.
- Ensure that set quality standards are met in all stages of production.
- Assure environmental compliance and clean plant operations.
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 10 years of experience in plant management operations with knowledge of manufacturing equipment and managerial experience.
- Strong communication skills, planning, teamwork, technical knowledge, leadership, initiative, integrity.
- Excellent interpersonal skills in a team setting.
- Excellent safety, environmental and quality orientation.
- Demonstrated problem solving with the ability to make sound decisions based on a thorough analysis of available data/information and follows up on critical issues.
- Strong detail orientation with demonstrated planning and organizational skills.
- Must have mechanical or technical ability in order to troubleshoot complex problems.
- Requires familiarity with quality control concepts.
