Plant Manager

**SUMMARY**:
Reporting to the Vice President of Operations/CEO, this position is responsible for all plant management activities including planning, management, and administration of operations. This includes a highly focused effort on safety environment, quality, delivery, and cost.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Include the following:

- Provide overall profit and loss leadership for the facility in accordance with budget requirements.
- Responsible for the overall safety performance and environmental compliance for the site.
- Provide leadership and direction to all areas of production and related services to achieve timely production of quality products in the proper quantities at the most economical cost.
- Maintain close monitoring of operations to assure coordination and integration of workflow, timely production, budgetary conformance, and optimum utilization of equipment, materials, facilities, and personnel.
- Identify and activate appropriate action plans to resolve crisis and problems.
- Lead efforts to define and install manufacturing procedures and operations to accomplish objectives in accordance with safety and environmental procedures, quality standards, production schedules, available Client, skills, manufacturing capacities and in accordance with the company's production system.
- Work closely with customer representatives as needed to identify and resolve production issues.
- To the fullest extent possible, utilizing documented control systems, responsibility includes initiating action, recommending, or providing solutions, to prevent the occurrence of product non-conformity.
- Insure that facility is in conformance with all applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements as well as with corporate systems, policies, and operating requirements.
- Reviews production costs and product quality and modifies production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of division.
- Directs preparation of accounting records. Recommends budgets to management.
- Manages efforts to meet or exceed yearly plant goals and objectives in safety, environment, quality, delivery, and production.
- Directs the cost reduction/continuous improvement efforts of the facility.
- Identifies need and provides internal and/or external leadership training.
- Other duties may be assigned.

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Master's degree (M.A.) or equivalent; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Qualifications may be waived by management. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

**CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS**:

- None

**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Manages subordinates in department. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of this unit.
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
- Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complains and resolving problems.

**TEAM SKILLS**:
Hutchinson is built around teamwork. This position requires the use of good team skills such as

cooperation, information sharing, task sharing, timely completion of assignments, good listening and communication skills and overall respect for other team members.

**LANGUAGE SKILLS**:

- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
- Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
- Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups and/or boards of directors.

**MATHEMATICAL SKILLS**:

- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.

**COMPUTER SKILLS**:
**REASONING ABILITY**:

- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

**WORK ENVIRONMENT**:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential f