Plant Manager

Position Summary

Duties and Responsibilities

• Direct or coordinate production, processing, distribution, and/or marketing activities of the plant.
• Develop budgets or approve expenditures for supplies, materials, or human resources, ensuring that materials, labor, or equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.
• Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and/or discharge staff, or resolve personnel concerns.
• Initiate or coordinate inventory and cost control programs.
• Prepare and maintain production reports.
• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.
• Develop and implement production tracking, quality control systems, production optimization, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.
• Review plans and confer with research or support staff to develop new products and processes.
• Coordinate and recommend procedures for facility and equipment maintenance and modification, including the replacement of machines.