Assistant Manager, Plant

• Manage operations across a multi-site campus.

• Lead day-to-day plant operations and ensure performance against safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives.

• Drive OEE improvement initiatives and remove barriers to equipment performance and throughput.

• Monitor and improve Direct Labor Efficiency (DLE) through workforce optimization and operational discipline.

• Lead daily production meetings, escalation processes, and action item follow-up.

• Ensure compliance with all EH&S, environmental, customer, and quality requirements

• Direct, coach, and develop supervisors and team leaders.

• Support union labor relations, grievance investigations, contract administration, attendance management, and progressive discipline.

• Lead root cause analysis activities using structured problem-solving methodologies.

• Assist with multi-site collaboration and deployment of best practices across ORBIS facilities.

• Serve as acting Plant Manager when assigned.

• Other duties as assigned.

Performance Measures and Outcomes

• Safety metrics

• Quality metrics

• Delivery metrics

• P&L metrics

• Production metrics

• Employee engagement

Education/Certification

Level Required

Bachelor's Degree

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Level Desired

Master's Degree

Work Experience

Required

• 5-8 years of relevant work experience

• 3-5 years of leadership experience, including salary direct reports

Desired

• 5-10 years of experience in plastics manufacturing

• 5-10 years of experience in a welding and/or fabrication environment

• Union leadership experience

Travel Requirements

• 5% - 20% travel