Plant Manager Jobs

Our client is a successful and well-established supplier of mining products and services. Their manufacturing facility in Kamloops, BC is in need of a Plant Manager who will be responsible for overseeing the production, maintenance, engineering, purchasing, and safety functions.

Responsibilities:

• Increasing production, assets capacity, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards
• Share a trusting relationship with the workgroup and recruit, manage, and develop plant staff.
• Commit to plant safety procedures.
• Increase production, assets capacity, and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
• Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions.
• Be responsible for production output, product quality, and on-time shipping.
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Planning, organizing, directing, and running optimum day-to-day operations to exceed customers’ expectations.
• Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Address employees’ issues or grievances and administer collective bargaining agreements.
• Plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed customers’ expectations.
• Stay up to date with the latest production management best practices and concepts.
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus.

Qualifications:

• Experience using Microsoft Office Word and Excel
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related field (nice to have, not mandatory)
• Detail-oriented and self-motivated, with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to work with all levels of the organization and multifunctional teams.
• Supervisory and leadership skills
• 10+ years of work experience in an industrial environment with a focus on manufacturing
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous experience leading a team.
• Computer literacy in a Windows environment, and at basic to intermediate capability in MS Office Excel, Word, and PowerPoint software