Plant Manager

The Plant Manager serves as the senior leader at Mactac's Scranton, PA-based manufacturing facility and is responsible for managing and coordinating overall plant operations and driving operational excellence. This role is accountable for ensuring that we meet our customers' delivery requirements by ensuring that we deliver the highest quality product, at the lowest possible cost, in accordance with company policies and procedures. The Plant Manager reports to the VP, Operations and has profit and loss (P&L) responsibility for a manufacturing facility with over 120 employees and a high degree of manufacturing complexity.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as a safety leader and putting safety first in all responsibilities to drive world class safety performance at the facility.
• Prioritizing, scheduling and delegating work assignments, and directly supervising the assigned members of the Plant Leadership Team to ensure the achievement of production performance and profit objectives at the lowest cost, consistent with company quality standards and customer delivery requirements.
• Ensuring that all plant associates adhere to all company policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Overseeing the establishment of production schedules and the production control process to ensure timely delivery of customer products.
• Evaluating, recommending and implementing improvements in methods and processes to increase productivity and quality and to eliminate waste.
• Developing plans for the maximum utilization of materials, machines, and employees to ensure plant profitability.
• Operating the Plant within budget requirements.
• Overseeing and directing the professional development of all plant associates.
• Coordinating the efficient use of corporate resources by cooperating with assigned resources and capitalizing on manufacturing and administrative strengths.
• Sourcing and maintaining technological knowledge of advancements in equipment or processes.
• Ensuring proper maintenance of equipment and the building and establishing/maintaining superior plant housekeeping standards.
• Developing and maintaining positive community relations.
• Ensuring organizational compliance with all local, state and federal regulatory agencies, including promoting affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.
• Performing supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Partnering with Human Resources to create and maintain a formal Human Capital Plan for the facility, including a facility succession plan.
• Leading efforts to develop organizational capability via Human Capital processes including performance feedback, recruitment and selection, salary planning processes, incentive plan alignment, performance recognition and differentiation.
• Overseeing continuous improvement at the facility and leading efforts to establish a continuous improvement culture
• Providing strategic and directional Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) focus, including facilitating and leading EHS discussions.
• Implementing and maintaining effective two-way communication and providing time and resources for employee training and development.
• Actively endorsing and promoting EHS policies and integrated management systems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business management, engineering or a related discipline is required. Consideration will be given to candidates with a high school diploma/GED who possess significant relevant prior experience.
• Minimum of 10 years related experience in a manufacturing environment with demonstrated growth in roles of progressive responsibility and authority.
• Must possess the ability to manage a large, multi-departmental, diversified manufacturing facility.
• Completion of Continuous Improvement training and/or Six Sigma certification, or a willingness to complete Continuous Improvement training.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to read and interpret financial reports and statements.
• Strong leadership presence with demonstrated ability to motivate and engage a diverse workforce.
• Must be a confident and adept decision maker and capable of making decisions with time and information constraints.
• Ability to analyze, solve problems and generate new ideas, across a variety of business processes.
• Requires ability to effectively communicate, both in writing and verbally, with people of various educational and technical backgrounds, both inside and outside the company.
• Ability to function comfortably and effectively in a rapidly changing environment in support of the immediate needs of both the organization and customer base.
• Should possess strong change management skills.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office tools.

Scope:

• Decision Impact: Plant-wide
• Department Responsibility: Facility
• Budgetary (P&L) Responsibility: Yes
• Direct Reports: Yes - 8
• Indirect Reports: Yes – 100+
• Physical Requirements:
  • Works in an office and manufacturing environment; time is split sitting at a desk and walking the shop floor.
  • Flexible hours may be required to accommodate meetings, trainings, etc. for evening shifts.
  • Prescribed personal protective equipment (PPE) is mandatory in all laboratory and manufacturing areas.
• Travel: Up to 10%

About Mactac:

Headquartered in Stow, Ohio, Mactac was founded as Morgan Adhesives Co. in 1959 by the late entrepreneur Burton (Burt) Morgan. Along with financial backing from Bemis Co. and a business model that focused on providing high quality products, innovative solutions and superior customer service, Mactac flourished. For over 65 years, we've been manufacturing and distributing pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) materials that are used in label printing, graphic design, packaging, retail display, fleet graphics, automotive assembly, medical device assembly, and more. Today, Mactac employs more than 1,100 people and has operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Mactac's parent company, LINTEC, is a leading company in the field of adhesive materials. The product lineup covers many diversified fields including not only adhesive papers and films for seals and labels, but also shatter-proof window films, adhesive sheets for outdoor signs, interior finishing mounting sheets, automobile-use adhesive products, semiconductor-related tape, and LCD-related adhesive products.

Mactac pressure sensitive adhesives are used in a wide range of markets and industries and our business is structured accordingly. We are a vertically integrated organization comprised of five business units – each specially designed to meet the unique needs of our customers.

Disclaimers:

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

It is the policy of Mactac that all employees are employed at the will of Mactac for an indefinite period and are subject to termination at any time, for any reason, with or without cause or notice. At the same time, employees may terminate their employment at any time and for any reason.

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or contract.