Plant Manager

Custom Processing Services, Inc.; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Custom Processing Services, Inc. is seeking a Building 3 Plant Manager to steer the business by delivering strategic planning and managing day-to-day activities in Reading.

The role emphasizes People, Customer, and CPS focus, requiring strong communication, leadership, and decision-making skills to meet revenue and budget goals while coordinating with SME teams and other plant managers to deliver the optimal corporate plan.

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Engineering with at least 3 years in manufacturing leadership or a related field with 10 years in leadership.
• Experience with cGMP manufacturing, preferably in leadership roles.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral; strong teamwork and training abilities.
• Willingness to work in a 24/7 manufacturing operation and manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily production meetings and communicate short and long-term operating targets.
• Ensure cGMP compliance and optimize output while protecting Health & Safety and product quality.
• Collaborate with EHS, Quality, Maintenance, Logistics, Planning, and Engineering to meet the manufacturing plan.
• Oversee direct and indirect reports and provide regular performance feedback aligned with goals.

Skills

Team leadership

Data analysis

Change management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

Overview

The Building 3 Plant Manager is the top level accountability in the Building 3 business unit. The Plant Manager steers the course of the business by providing planning to meet the corporate business objectives (Strategic), while being responsible for day to day activities within their business units (Tactical). Using the CPS Core Values, Plant Managers are expected to balance being People Focused, Customer Focused, and CPS Focused. All are important and one cannot overshadower the other two or cultural dysfunction will result. Plant Managers need to work through others to be successful, meaning they need to demonstrate excellent communication, accountability, and critical thinking (decision making) attributes in their work behaviors.

People Focused

• Establish, maintain/improve, and measure a culture of safety within the business unit.
• Provide leadership, training, and development to direct reports.
• Utilize existing training and help develop new training tools for use in the business unit.
• Provide a culture of engagement for all employees within the business unit.
• Use information learned through employee engagement to create growth and developmental plans for the business unit employees, aligning with their personal aspirations.

Customer Focused

• Understand customer requirements with regard to process and specification and assure both are maintained in operation.
• As a business unit, provide exceptional process information and details to satisfy customer information requirements and requests.
• Provide and execute commitments for products to be available to the customer.

CPS Focused

• Deliver as a business unit the revenue expected and committed to on a monthly basis.
• Assure business unit operates within the financial budget.
• Collaborate with EHS, Quality, Maintenance, Logistics, Planning, and Engineering to deliver the manufacturing plan within Job Metrics.
• Work with other Plant Managers and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to deliver the best overall business plan from a corporate perspective.

Key Functional Roles

• Ensure Building 3 operations are cGMP compliant at all times.
• Ensure the business unit is run to optimize output without compromising employee Health and Safety or Product Quality through shift attainment, uptime, and efficiency.
• Responsible for leading the daily production meeting and establishing clear communication of short and long term operational targets and goals.
• Responsible for maintaining accuracy of production elements of management information systems including financial reporting, CMMS, ERP, and HRM systems.
• Ensure that direct and indirect employees receive regular feedback on their performance related to established Goals & Objectives and to CPS Core Values.

Other Key Roles

• Conduct periodic evaluation of business requirements and communicate to corporate management if requirements are not readily available within defined responsibility scope.
• Participate in the budgeting process to set achievable financial goals for resources.
• Share knowledge and expertise with others in the business unit to improve business execution.
• Direct reporting and oversight of direct and indirect reports as well as hourly support staff from other expertise areas (Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse, etc.) either directly or matrixed.
• Perform any other related duty as identified by Senior Leadership.

Job Metrics (Measurements of Success)

• Safety Incident rate
• Employee retention
• 360 feedback from peers and co-workers
• On Time Availability (OTA)
• Customer Complaints
• EBITDA
• Schedule Adherence
• Production Shift Attainment
• Equipment and Labor Efficiency and Utilization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline and three years of related experience in Manufacturing Leadership.
• Alternatively, Bachelor’s degree in a related field and ten years of related experience in Manufacturing Leadership.
• Experience with cGMP (food or excipient) manufacturing, preferably in a leadership role.
• Experience with cGMP bottling lines and/or extraction equipment is a plus.
• Champion and embodiment of CPS Core Values.
• Willingness to work as part of a collaborative team, promoting trust and respect.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, including proficiency in Office Suite applications.
• Willingness to accept the demands of a twenty-four hour, seven-day manufacturing operation.
• Ability to multitask and establish priorities in an environment of competing expectations.
• Willingness to continue education and personal development for the purposes of staying up to date with industry, technology, and regulatory requirements.
• Desire to be a change agent, not getting discouraged, but persevering through times of conflict.
• Flexible and openminded to change while at the same time being able to hold an unwavering position.
• Previous experience in developing personnel.
• Ability to analyze data, look for trends, and draw conclusions for said data.

Location

• Reading Campus (primary work location) – 98% of time
• East Greenville Campus (secondary location) – 2% of time

Work Environment (estimated Averages)

• Office 50%
• Floor 50%

Growth Opportunities

• Senior Management
• Subject Matter Expert leadership opportunities

Travel Requirements

• To vendor locations as needed to support learning and equipment/process advancement
• To industry or technical conferences to advance learning and understanding of new technologies
• Between CPS sites as indicated above