Job Ref: # 9635976
Date Posted: 6/4/2026
City, State: Seattle, WA
Salary (USD): $150,000 - $180,000
Description
Reporting to the COO, the Plant Manager is responsible for leading and directing a variety of activities to ensure a successful achievement of day-to-day and growth goals for the site. The ideal leader for this high impact role is a forward thinker and action-oriented manager, with the motivation to lead a team with a “Have Fun, Get It Done" attitude.
The successful Plant Manager will:
- Influence a positive work environment that promotes a culture of safety and employee engagement, while providing leadership to the overall operations and proactively driving continuous improvement.
- Manage the location's budget by maintaining service levels to customers while striving to improve safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity standards to drive a “Best in Class” culture.
- Inspire change - collaboratively engage with local leadership to analyze safety, quality, production, and maintenance metrics, determine causes of nonconformity, improve processes and achieve operational excellence.
Responsibilities include:
- Work with your team to manage day-to-day operations to execute business plans that align with company goals and overall strategic vision.
- Oversee and drive improvements in production to meet short-term and long-term objectives to achieve optimum efficiency.
- Build a high performing team - establish strong performance standards and continuously work to grow and develop team members.
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives tied to the strategic business direction; execute thoughtful change management.
- Build partnerships and effectively collaborate with commercial/sales business partners to identify facility growth opportunities and maintain relationships with key accounts.
- Work collaboratively with other cross-functional leaders to best serve the customer's needs.
- Proactively build and maintain Continuous Improvement and Capital Expenditure plans.
- Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, execute necessary solutions.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive operations management experience in a manufacturing setting with direct responsibility for Safety, Quality, Reliability, Production and Financial results. Printing/Packaging industry experience is a plus, but not required.
- Operations/production leadership experience in a LEAN/Continuous Improvement environment
- Demonstrated experience in budget and financial management.
- Strong knowledge/experience in strategic planning, resource allocation and human resources.
- Track record of goal setting/achievement and building, developing, leading and motivating diverse teams through transformative change.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities - adept at taking action quickly in response to changing demands, conditions, processes and evolving information.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
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