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Plant Manager

Company:
Full Circle Recruiting
Location:
Columbus, OH
Posted:
October 24, 2025
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Description:

Job Description

Salary: $130k - $190k

Full Circle is seeking an experienced Plant Manager for our growing team!

Daily Duties:

Support Safety Program as our #1 core value to ensure all employees have asafeenvironment to work in.

Implement manufacturing strategies focused on continuous improvement

Promote Relentless Continuous Improvement to improve efficiency and capacity.

Develop programs to ensure minimal manufacturing defects.

Manage all plant operations to achieve economical use of material, personnel, control quality, maintain company equipment and property.

Mentor Plant Leads

Develop plant staff for future leadership roles

Analyze operational costs, investigate variances, plans corrective action, and inform the Vice President of Manufacturing of the cause and action taken to correct.

Provide analysis of operating results as compared to plan, forecast, and prior periods with accompanying recommendations to correct current deviations

Requirements for the role

Bachelors Degree, Chemical Engineering highly preferred.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Manufacturing environment as a manager, supervisor, or team lead of large teams

Must have ERP experience.

Formal Lean, Six Sigma, training or certifications

MUST have solid experience in chemical, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, coatings, etc.

Multi shift operations management

Oversee daily direction of production, warehousing and engineering

Lead plant efforts to ensure customer expectations are met; foster and improve customer communication

Be the voice of the plant for all departments and shifts, offering regular

communication and process updates via meetings and communication boards

Maximize efficiencies by designing and implementing improved manufacturing strategies and allocating assets and resources to meet safety, quality, cost, delivery, volume and productivity goals

Manage budgets related to cost savings, operations, etc.

Foster the importance of a safety-oriented culture within the plant

Work with maintenance teams on preventative and predictive maintenance efforts with the goal of decreasing equipment downtime

Lead continuous improvement, 5S and Lean programs at the site to drive

engagement and efficiency

Benchmark, develop, implement, communicate and execute the plant's strategic plan

Work with the engineering team on CapEx projects to complete in a timely manner and on budget

Develop your leadership team and create a succession plan for current staff and any potential new hires

Ensure that key performance indicators are in place and work on monitoring and improving KPIs based on safety, quality, productivity and cost

Experience overseeing direct and indirect reports across multiple facets of manufacturing (production, maintenance, engineering, quality, etc.)

Confirm compliance with all federal, state, local and corporate policies, laws and regulations

Travel & Location

This position is onsite with travel approximately 20%.

Full-time

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