Job Ref: # 8922494
Date Posted: 12/18/2025
City, State: Nashville, TN
Description
Reporting to the COO, the Plant Manager is responsible for leading and directing activities to ensure a successful achievement of day-to-day and long-term 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 develop and lead a high performing, collaborative team.
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:
- Manage day-to-day operations - align business plans with company goals and strategic vision.
- Oversee and drive improvements in production to meet objectives to achieve optimum efficiency.
- Develop a high performing team - establish strong performance standards and continuously work to grow and develop team members.
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives tied to business strategy - execute thoughtful change management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to identify facility growth opportunities and best serve customer 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.
- 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.
Company Description:
Our client is a leader in the Printing/Packaging industry, providing innovative products and services to a wide array of commercial customers. They have a track record of consistent growth.
Why this opportunity?:
This Plant Manager role is an exciting, challenging, high visibility opportunity for a transformational leader with a passion for continuous improvement. This is an opportunity for you to make a big impact with one of the company's most complex and important sites. They need a hands-on leader who will take ownership, effectively collaborate, problem-solve, and inspire operations leaders/teams to improve processes and achieve operational excellence. Your success will lead to career advancement opportunities as the company continues to grow.
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