The Plant Manager is the key production leader within the plant. This role is a player-coach with excellent leadership and communication skills, expert knowledge of converting production operations, and strength in change management and culture leadership. Our Fort Worth plant is currently undergoing a major expansion project. This is an opportunity for a talented candidate to lead operational success as the site’s production capabilities expand. The ideal candidate will have experience of independent converting operations or a sheet plant environment.

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 converting/corrugated operations, shipping operations, and maintenance in a corrugated packaging plant, while maintaining safety, efficiency, and quality of product. They should continuously audit and analyze processes, plans, and strategies to suggest improvements that will benefit safety, quality, production output and efficiency, and overall compliance of policies. Finally, they should diligently manage cost to meet budgeted expectations in labor utilization, material and services spending, and project execution.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead corrugated board production operations:
• Plan personnel, equipment, and material resources to meet production demands with an emphasis on optimization of output vs. labor and material costs.
• Increase production, machine capacity and flexibility
• Manage efficiency and waste to ensure optimized production cost
• Utilize and maintain systems and processes that track and optimize productivity standards, metrics, and performance targets
• Directly manages the production leads and supervisors, shipping supervisor, maintenance lead, and EHS manager. Coaches for success and drives culture of accountability and progress throughout the workforce.
• Drive and implement continuous improvement in production processes with an emphasis in quality, efficiency, delivery, and safety. Leverage site metrics to measure progress and identify further opportunities.
• Proactively monitors and measures production department throughput and quality metrics daily; responsible for coaching, counseling, and managing employees and frontline leaders via timely feedback and development
• Owns production operating budget. Works with Finance function and General Manager to develop and optimize the budget and spending.
• Manage talent development, succession planning, and employee performance. Partners with HR on developing a highly-skilled and cross-trained workforce and bench strength.
• Monitor product standards and quality assurance
• Enforce plant and company policies/procedures and take disciplinary action when necessary
• Partners with EH&S Manager to continuously improve and assess safety policies and standards
• Other duties, as assigned

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• HS Diploma or GED Equivalent from an accredited institution
• 5+ years leadership or supervisory experience in manufacturing
• Must be able to work weekends, holidays, and extra hours, as needed
• 5+ years’ experience in the corrugated converting industry

PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred
• Excellent computer skills; MS Office / ERP Systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Able to effectively coach, persuade, and direct others.
• Able to collaborate effectively with other departments to achieve goals and drive continuous process improvement.
• Previous experience with implementing behavior-based safety programs
• Strategic planning skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Qualified candidates must be able to perform the following physical job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation:

• Must be able to lift up-to 50 pounds
• Must be able to work in hot, humid, and cold manufacturing environment
• Manual and finger dexterity used regularly with some repetitive finger motions
• Ability to work in front of a computer screen for long periods of time
• Specific vision abilities include close and distance vision; able to identify colors, small letters, and numbers; hand/eye coordination, depth perception and able to adjust focus
• Hearing and speaking
• Other conditions may include frequent reaching, stretching, pushing, pulling, pinching, grasping, and gripping.

ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

Comprised of multiple companies with headquarters in New Hope, Minnesota, Liberty Diversified International (LDI) is a privately held company employing more than 1,900 individuals across our manufacturing facilities, production facilities and core business operations in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, California, and Mexico. With deep roots in the corrugated box manufacturing industry, we operate in the core markets of paper, packaging, workplace products, corrugated plastics and building products.

Since 1918, our values – Caring, Innovation, Trust, and Excellence – have guided our day-to-day activities. We believe that when our employees are aligned with these values, we create superior solutions and services for our customers. The LDI family of companies includes Liberty Packaging, Liberty Paper, Liberty Plastics (Custom Solutions and Quarrix Building Products) and Safco.

Liberty Diversified International is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, disability, or any other protected class