Plant Manager

Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc.

Plant Manager

Ellisville, MS, United States | req34514

What you will enjoy doing*

• Lead the Ellisville manufacturing operation with full accountability for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), while ensuring customer commitments and business objectives are consistently achieved
• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team by setting clear expectations, coaching managers and supervisors, strengthening accountability, and developing organizational capability and succession
• You will drive the PGT Lean Operating System through daily management, leader standard work, visual management, structured problem solving, standard work, and continuous improvement
• Be a visible leader on the shop floor, working with teams at the source to identify problems, remove barriers, strengthen process discipline, and ensure corrective actions address root causes and are sustained
• Improve operational performance and reliability by strengthening equipment performance, first-pass yield, flow, WIP, productivity, capacity, and on-time delivery while maintaining uncompromising safety and quality standards
• Develop and execute the site strategy, aligning workforce, training, equipment, materials, capital, and capacity with customer demand, growth priorities, and long-term business requirements
• Own the financial performance of the facility, including budgets, labor efficiency, overtime, productivity, cost improvement, operational spending, and capital priorities
• Also, you will lead cross-functionally and create a strong site culture, partnering with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, EHS, Human Resources, and Finance while fostering respect, transparency, employee engagement, urgency, and continuous improvement

What makes you great

• You have a Bachelor's degree with ten (10) or more years of related manufacturing experience, a Master's degree with eight (8) or more years, a PhD with five (5) or more years, or sixteen (16) or more years of directly related manufacturing experience
• Further you have significant manufacturing leadership experience with accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, people, and operational results
• You have successfully led leaders, including managers and frontline supervisors, and know how to build capability rather than becoming the organization's primary problem solver
• You have demonstrated experience applying Lean principles, daily management, standard work, and structured problem solving to deliver measurable operational improvement
• And you bring strong financial and business acumen, with experience managing budgets, labor, productivity, operating costs, and capital priorities
• Experience in aerospace, coatings, special processes, precision manufacturing, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment is strongly preferred
• You are comfortable leading change in a complex manufacturing environment and can move effectively between strategy, data, the shop floor, and customer and business priorities
• Most importantly, you lead with humility, accountability, transparency, respect for people, and a bias for action, while developing others and creating sustainable systems for success

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!

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We are looking forward to receiving your complete application.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc. abides by applicable export control laws including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) in accordance with the company''s export control procedures. As such, persons considered for this position must be either a U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident (green card holder) or otherwise classifiable as a U.S. person under relevant regulations.

Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.

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