Job Description
Title: Plant Manager
Location: Waskom, TX
Overview: Sterling has helped build careers for thousands of professionals like yourself. Our expert recruiters support you at every step in the process and as a Best of Staffing company, Sterling provides exciting work with exceptional employers across the U.S.
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Benefits: Benefits from day 1 with almost 100% coverage! In addition to 11 paid holidays, 2-3 weeks vacation, 401K, etc.
Target Salary: $95,000-130,000
Bonus/ Incentives/ Stock Options: up to 20% annual bonus
Job Summary: Responsible for the overall performance of a manufacturing facility, including safety, production, quality, delivery, and financial results. This role leads day-to-day plant operations while partnering with engineering, quality, supply chain, and other teams to improve efficiency, profitability, and customer performance.
Job Duties:
- Lead daily plant operations to meet safety, production, quality, and delivery goals
- Promote a strong safety culture and ensure proper employee training, equipment, and operating practices
- Monitor production efficiency, labor utilization, scheduling, and workflow to maximize plant performance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in partnership with engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams
- Manage production and capacity planning to support customer demand and long-term growth
- Oversee plant budgets, forecasting, cost controls, capital projects, and overall financial performance
- Monitor KPIs, address quality concerns, and ensure corrective actions are implemented
- Work with supply chain and other departments to resolve production constraints and maintain on-time customer deliveries
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required
- 5+ years of progressive experience within manufacturing operations, including exposure to production, scheduling, and/or quality
- Proven leadership experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment
- Experience with recycling operations involving ferrous and nonferrous materials preferred; auto shredding experience is a plus
- Experience with Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
- Strong knowledge of production planning, labor utilization, quality practices, and plant operations
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and financial performance
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Waskom, TX |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Alliance/Partner Managementunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Capital Projectunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cost Forecastingunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Operationsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Production Controlunmatched
- Production Managementunmatched
- Production Planningunmatched
- Production Scheduleunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Recyclingunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Staff Trainingunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
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