Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is the key production leader within the plant and an integral part of the leadership team across Atlantic’s Ontario Corrugated Division. This role requires a player-coach with excellent leadership and communication skills, expert knowledge of operations, labor relations and strength in change management and culture leadership. Lead operational excellence and drive company core values at the site level.

The Plant Manager is directly responsible for overseeing safety, quality, production, maintenance, and shipping activities through direct leadership of production staff. They will provide consistent oversight and direction for the corrugated, converting, shipping operations, and maintenance in a corrugated plant, while maintaining safety, efficiency, and quality of product.

***This role reports to the VP, Operations Corrugated**

**Duties**:

- Ensure the plant operates under Environmental, health and safety company policy and city/municipal laws and regulations.
- Oversee manufacturing, including safety, quality, throughput, cost, waste control, maintenance, inventories control and meet budgeted production metrics.
- Continuously audit and analyze processes, plans, and strategies to drive improvements that will improve safety, quality, cost, production output and efficiency, and overall compliance of policies.
- Maintain and support positive labor relations and drive employee engagement
- Direct production, shipping, and maintenance of the Plant to ensure the customer receives their product on time and in full, driving a better customer experience everyday

Human resources, including workforce engagement, diversity, recruiting and hiring, employee and leadership development and employee labor relations
- Systematically review financial and efficiency performance of the plant to recommend to management opportunities for growth, automation and cost savings through capital improvement projects
- Review production costs and product quality, and modify production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of plant.
- Financial management, including establishing and managing budgets and compliance with financial controls
- Promote the quality system by ensuring all employees are aware of and abide by 0the company quality, food safety and GMP policies
- Back-up for the position is the Plant Manager from alternate plants when required or as designated by the VP, Operations Corrugated. Short-term or immediate back up for this position is provided by the on-site Operations Manager.
- To perform other tasks or jobs as need or required by the Company

**Education**:

- Post graduate education degree/diploma in related engineering or business studies

**Essential Skills/Qualifications**:

- 5-10 years manager experience in manufacturing
- Solid experience and leadership in a unionized manufacturing environment
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
- Ability to compile reports and present at meetings
- Ability to liaise with all levels of management and employees
- Personally involved with all events and decisions

**Working Conditions**:

- Works in well lit, climate-controlled office environment
- Exposed to dust, noise, heat and humidity when in plant

**Physical Demands**:

- Moderate mental concentration for computer work, to produce required reports and recommendations

The above duties are guidelines to the general requirements of the job and are not intended to constitute the full requirements.

**COMPETENCIES**:
**Customer Focus** - Personally demonstrates that external and internal customers are a high priority. Identifies customer needs and expectations and responds to them in a timely and effective manner. Anticipates and prevents delays or other things that can adversely affect the customer. Keeps customers informed about the status of pending actions and audits customer satisfaction with products or services.

**Decision Quality** - Gathers enough information to allow a pragmatic assessment of risks and benefits of alternative approaches in any decision. Stays focused on objectives and considers both the short-term and longer-term impact of decisions and keeps objectives in mind throughout the process. Communicates the impact and implications of decisions. Completes the appropriate level of due diligence required to make a quick, accurate decision.

**Drive for Results** - Achieves results within established timelines. Understands and demonstrates that intentions, activities and results are not the same. Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; does not give up before finishing, even in the face of resistance or setbacks; consistently challenges self and others for results.

**Leadership** - The expectation of leadership is not reserved solely for only those who are in positions of authority, but from all employees. They demonstrate high integrity and are motivated by wanting to make a real difference to people by delive