At M&M Industries, we take pride in producing high-quality, innovative plastic packaging solutions that make a difference in everyday life. Our success starts with strong leadership that drives safety, quality, teamwork, and operational excellence across every part of our manufacturing operations.
The Plant Manager is responsible for overseeing all daily plant operations, including production, safety, quality, maintenance, warehousing, and distribution. This role ensures that policies and procedures are followed, resources are effectively allocated, and strategic initiatives are executed to meet customer expectations. The Plant Manager leads and develops teams, drives continuous improvement, and ensures optimal performance, efficiency, and productivity across the facility.
Key Responsibilities
- Commit to plant safety procedures; develop and cultivate a strong safety culture focused on behavioral safety.
- Align quality results with quality expectations, targeting zero external defects, scrap reduction, and true root-cause corrective action.
- Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed customer expectations.
- Coordinate plant activities through planning with departmental managers to ensure total manufacturing objectives are achieved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Responsible for OEE, production output, product quality, and on-time shipping.
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
- Implement strategies aligned with organizational initiatives and provide clear direction and focus.
- Provide leadership and training to achieve company goals and objectives.
- Collect and analyze data to identify sources of waste.
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity, standards, metrics, and performance targets to maximize return on assets.
- Promote shop-floor organization and plant cleanliness among all personnel.
- Provide direction, development, and leadership to Production Supervisors.
Competencies (Knowledge/Skills/Abilities)
- Knowledge of safety, quality, productivity, demand creation, inventory, and stewardship processes Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly convey goals, expectations, and performance standards
- Strong decision-making skills with the ability to prioritize, troubleshoot, and respond effectively to changing conditions
- Financial management awareness, including understanding cost drivers, scrap, labor utilization, and operational efficiency
- Strong business acumen with the ability to align plant activities with broader organizational goals
- Effective team-building and people-management skills, including coaching, developing, and motivating employees
- Commitment to continuous improvement and lean manufacturing concepts
- Knowledge of ERP systems
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field (required)
Experience
- Five (5) or more years as a Plant Manager (required)
- Injection molding experience (required)
- Warehousing experience (preferred)
- Bilingual experience (preferred)
- Food-packaging industry experience (required for some plants)
