Job Description
Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Manager - Plastics
Location: Lakewood, CO
Hours/Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday (Onsite)
Compensation: $148,500 - $185,600 + 20% Target Bonus
Type: Direct Hire
Overview
Our client, a global medical manufacturing organization, is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Manager to lead a high-volume plastics manufacturing operation. This role is ideal for a hands-on manufacturing leader with injection molding expertise who enjoys driving operational excellence, developing teams, and improving plant performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead multi-shift plastics manufacturing operations, including injection molding and extrusion
- Drive safety, quality, productivity, labor efficiency, and cost performance
- Manage supervisors and manufacturing teams while supporting employee development
- Monitor KPIs including OEE, downtime, scrap, throughput, and equipment reliability
- Lead Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
- Partner with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance to achieve operational goals
- Support production planning, staffing, and future manufacturing capacity
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or related field
- 10+ years of manufacturing experience
- 5+ years of manufacturing leadership experience
- Strong plastics manufacturing background with injection molding experience
- Experience leading multi-shift manufacturing operations
- Proven success improving productivity, labor efficiency, quality, and operational performance
- Strong financial acumen and experience managing manufacturing metrics
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, extrusion, SAP, automated manufacturing, or regulated manufacturing experience preferred
Benefits
Our client offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, bonus opportunity, career development, and additional employee wellness programs.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Denver, CO |
| Industry | Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals |
| Salary | $148,000–$185,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | https://www.jouleinc.com/ |
About Company
With extensive scientific, clinical, and healthcare industry experience, Joulé recruiters excel at placing talent across core specialty areas:
- Scientific staffing for hard-to-find skills
Working across every scientific discipline, Joulé places biologists, chemists, scientists, technicians and other specialists.
- Clinical lifecycle recruiting
From research to regulations, safety to statistics, Joulé helps clients manage every stage of the clinical development lifecycle.
- Equipment calibration, maintenance and validation
Laboratory and facility support comes with a total quality commitment backed by ISO 9001:2008 certification.
- National healthcare recruitment
Trust Joulé’s extensive experience in physician, advanced practice provider and executive direct placement search.
Skills
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Extrusionunmatched
- Financial Operationsunmatched
- Injection Moldingunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Lean Six Sigmaunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Managementunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Medical Organizationsunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Plastics Manufacturingunmatched
- Production Planningunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Productivity Managementunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Staff Developmentunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
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