Plant Manager

The Sterling Choice; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sterling Choice is seeking a seasoned Plant Manager for a major food manufacturing operation in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. You will lead the site with a focus on end-to-end accountability and foster a culture of ownership and collaboration.

You will be responsible for safety, quality, production, maintenance, and the broader site performance, driving cross-functional teamwork and continuous improvement to deliver on commitments.

Responsibilities

• Safety, quality, service, cost and people
• Production and operational performance
• Maintenance, engineering and reliability
• Supply chain and customer delivery
• Leadership development and succession
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Employee engagement and accountability
• Continuous improvement and capital priorities
• Longer-term site capability and growth
• The challenge is to bring functions together around shared priorities, establish a consistent operating rhythm and turn individual expertise into collective performance

Job description

Safety. Quality. Maintenance. Engineering. Supply chain. Service. Cost. People.

You understand how each function affects the next. You ask intelligent questions, remain curious and refuse to accept “that’s how we’ve always done it” as an explanation.

This is a significant food manufacturing operation in the Dallas–Fort Worth area entering an important period of development.

The business needs a seasoned Plant Manager who can strengthen performance, foster genuine collaboration and create an environment where capable people take ownership.

This isn’t command-and-control leadership dressed up as accountability.

The strongest Plant Managers understand that servant leadership and high standards belong together.

• You provide clarity.
• You remove obstacles.
• You encourage honest conversations.
• You create the space for people to challenge and improve.
• And when commitments are made, you ensure they are delivered.

You’ll be visible, curious and close enough to the operation to understand what is really happening—not simply what appears in the weekly report.

You don’t need to be the smartest technical person in every room. You do need to understand what good looks like across every function you own.

The opportunity

You’ll take responsibility for the complete site agenda, including:

• Safety, quality, service, cost and people
• Production and operational performance
• Maintenance, engineering and reliability
• Supply chain and customer delivery
• Leadership development and succession
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Employee engagement and accountability
• Continuous improvement and capital priorities
• Longer-term site capability and growth

The challenge is to bring functions together around shared priorities, establish a consistent operating rhythm and turn individual expertise into collective performance.

Who this will suit

You are already an established Plant Manager, Site Director or senior manufacturing leader with genuine end-to-end responsibility in food or beverage manufacturing.

You have probably inherited complexity, led meaningful change or taken an operation through a period when stronger alignment and accountability were required.

This isn’t the natural next step for someone who has only owned production.

It requires a leader who understands the complete plant, trusts functional expertise but knows when to probe, and can challenge people without losing them.

Someone with the judgement to set a clear standard, the curiosity to keep learning and the humility to build success through others.

There is also a compelling longer-term story around investment, development and the future of the operation—but that is better discussed confidentially.

If you have the scars of running plants, still possess the curiosity to learn and believe

accountability starts with serving your team properly, I’d like to speak with you.

All conversations will be handled confidentially.