Plant Operations Manager

3 weeks ago


Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Aliaxis Full time

About the Role:

The Plant Manager is a key leadership position responsible for the overall management of Aliaxis operations in our Edmonton, Alberta facility. This role reports to the Director of Manufacturing and is accountable for the successful execution of operational and strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Operational Excellence: Ensure the efficient and effective operation of the facility, including production, logistics, quality, and maintenance, while maintaining compliance with all labor, safety, environmental, ISO, and corporate policies and regulations.
  • Leadership and Development: Lead and empower team members by setting clear expectations, providing training and coaching, and partnering with business partners on key people strategies, including attraction and retention plans, succession planning, development plans, and training requirements.
  • Strategic Planning: Interpret strategies to create and implement plans to ensure products are manufactured efficiently and to a high quality, leading the attainment of key information to create long-term resolutions and corrective actions to establish and sustain a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Cost Management: Develop plans and strategies utilizing production forecasts and resources to achieve agreed labor and machine productivity levels, meeting conversion cost, material variance, and scrap reduction goals.
  • Process Improvement: Lead the implementation of best-in-class practices and projects aimed at cost reduction and efficient process control, partnering with innovation teams to facilitate the industrialization of innovation projects through analysis and testing of new product development ideas in the plant.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal and external standards for the manufacturing product lifecycle, partnering with business partners to establish processes and organizational structures to meet compliance requirements for all appropriate regulatory bodies.
  • Facility Maintenance: Lead and liaise with key business partners on the strategy, implementation, and team focused on programs and processes overseeing general machine and facility maintenance.
  • Health, Safety, and Environment: Ensure compliance with federal, provincial, and local legislative requirements, ensuring the occupational Health and Safety policy is signed and dated, outlining commitment and responsibilities of all members of the workplace.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Education: Completion of a University Degree in a technical or business-related discipline or equivalent experience.
  • Technical Skills and Experience: Minimum of 10 years management experience, holding a cross-section of functional roles preferred, with experience balancing multiple priorities and leading change, strategic planning, resource allocation, employee relations, leadership techniques, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Lean and Six Sigma: Proven track record of improving performance in a leadership role, experience and/or familiarity with Lean projects, and technical understanding of production planning techniques, current quality standards, lean manufacturing, and safety requirements/laws (ISO 9001, Six Sigma, 5S, etc.).
  • Health, Safety, and Environmental Practices: Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental practices in a manufacturing environment, knowledge and ability to understand the process of machinery, knowledge of injection molding equipment and fabrication combined with experience in a plastic manufacturing environment.


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