Plant Operations Manager

Armstrong International – Intelligent Solutions in Steam, Air and Hot Water; SOUTH PLAINFIELD (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Prescription Coverage

FSA or HSA

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Company-match 401(k) Plan

Vacation/Sick/Paid Holidays

Job summary

Everlasting Valve Company (EV) in South Plainfield, NJ, seeks a Plant Operations Manager to lead safety, production planning, and continuous improvement across heavy industrial valve manufacturing.

The role emphasizes lean methods, ISO 9001:2015 quality, and cross-functional leadership to meet delivery commitments and optimize productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing environments with increasing responsibility and proven leadership roles.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 standards and QMS implementation.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, material planning and quality management tools.
• Exceptional ability to supervise teams, train staff, and manage large-scale projects.
• Strong analytical skills to handle audits, inventory shortages, and process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Safety & Compliance: Maintain a safe workplace, enforce OSHA/EHS requirements, conduct safety reviews, investigate incidents, and ensure regulatory and environmental compliance.
• Production Management: Achieve daily/weekly/monthly production schedules while balancing labor, equipment, materials, and capacity.
• On-Time Delivery: Own manufacturing execution against customer commitments, backlog, schedule adherence, and recovery plans for late orders.
• Quality: Ensure products meet specifications and quality-system requirements; drive corrective actions, root-cause analysis, scrap reduction, and first-pass yield.
• People Leadership: Lead supervisors and hourly employees; establish expectations, coach performance, develop talent, manage attendance, staffing, training, and succession.
• Productivity & Cost Control: Improve labor efficiency, machine utilization, throughput, overtime, scrap, rework, and manufacturing cost.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive Lean manufacturing, 5S, standard work, value-stream improvements, visual management, and waste elimination.
• Capacity & Resource Planning: Ensure sufficient labor, equipment, tooling, floor space, and manufacturing capability to support demand.
• Maintenance & Reliability: Coordinate preventive maintenance and capital improvements to maximize equipment uptime and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Inventory & Material Flow: Work with purchasing and planning to maintain appropriate raw material, WIP, and finished-goods inventory while avoiding shortages and excess.
• Planning: Participate in demand and supply planning, identify capacity constraints, and develop production plans aligned with sales forecasts and backlog.
• KPI Management: Maintain a plant operating dashboard and take corrective action when performance falls below target.
• Financial Performance: Manage plant expenses, labor spending, overtime, manufacturing variances, capital expenditures, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Engineering Support: Partner with engineering on standard products and engineered to orders. Review routings, work instructions, tooling, manufacturability, and process improvements.
• Customer Support: Assist with expedited orders, quality issues, customer visits, audits, FATs, and major project requirements.
• Facility Management: Maintain an organized, clean, professional facility and ensure infrastructure supports safe operations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate closely with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing and Finance to resolve issues quickly.
• Strategic Improvement: Develop annual plant objectives around safety, delivery, quality, productivity, cost, inventory, and workforce capability.
• Partner with Engineering to improve cost control, production methods, and safety.
• Coordinate large valve projects and manage vendor training.
• Participate in daily production reviews and weekly planning meetings.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management or Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Material planning tools

Quality management tools

Job description

Vacancy NamePlant Operations Manager Vacancy NoVN868 Employment TypeFull-Time Shift Duration (if temporary) Location CountryUnited States Location StateNew Jersey Location CitySouth Plainfield DescriptionEverlasting Valve Company (EV) is a U.S.-based manufacturer of severe-service industrial valves with more than a century of experience solving demanding flow-control applications. EV is known for its unique rotating-disc valve technology, serving customers across boiler, power generation, cement, refining, chemical, mining, steel, and other heavy industrial markets. EV manufactures engineered industrial valves for abrasive solids, slurries, high temperatures, high cycling, and other challenging process conditions.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety & Compliance: Maintain a safe workplace, enforce OSHA/EHS requirements, conduct safety reviews, investigate incidents, and ensure regulatory and environmental compliance.
• Production Management: Achieve daily/weekly/monthly production schedules while balancing labor, equipment, materials, and capacity.
• On-Time Delivery: Own manufacturing execution against customer commitments, backlog, schedule adherence, and recovery plans for late orders.
• Quality: Ensure products meet specifications and quality-system requirements; drive corrective actions, root-cause analysis, scrap reduction, and first-pass yield.
• People Leadership: Lead supervisors and hourly employees; establish expectations, coach performance, develop talent, manage attendance, staffing, training, and succession.
• Productivity & Cost Control: Improve labor efficiency, machine utilization, throughput, overtime, scrap, rework, and manufacturing cost.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive Lean manufacturing, 5S, standard work, value-stream improvements, visual management, and waste elimination.
• Capacity & Resource Planning: Ensure sufficient labor, equipment, tooling, floor space, and manufacturing capability to support demand.
• Maintenance & Reliability: Coordinate preventive maintenance and capital improvements to maximize equipment uptime and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Inventory & Material Flow: Work with purchasing and planning to maintain appropriate raw material, WIP, and finished-goods inventory while avoiding shortages and excess.
• Planning: Participate in demand and supply planning, identify capacity constraints, and develop production plans aligned with sales forecasts and backlog.
• KPI Management: Maintain a plant operating dashboard and take corrective action when performance falls below target.
• Financial Performance: Manage plant expenses, labor spending, overtime, manufacturing variances, capital expenditures, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Engineering Support: Partner with engineering on standard products and engineered to orders. Review routings, work instructions, tooling, manufacturability, and process improvements.
• Customer Support: Assist with expedited orders, quality issues, customer visits, audits, FATs, and major project requirements.
• Facility Management: Maintain an organized, clean, professional facility and ensure infrastructure supports safe operations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate closely with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing and Finance to resolve issues quickly.
• Strategic Improvement: Develop annual plant objectives around safety, delivery, quality, productivity, cost, inventory, and workforce capability.
• Partner with Engineering to improve cost control, production methods, and safety.
• Coordinate large valve projects and manage vendor training.
• Participate in daily production reviews and weekly planning meetings.

Key Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing environments with increasing responsibility and proven leadership roles.
• Quality Expertise: Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 standards and QMS implementation.
• Software Skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office, material planning and quality management tools.
• Leadership: Exceptional ability to supervise teams, train staff, and manage large-scale projects.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills to handle audits, inventory shortages, and process improvements. Education LevelBachelor's Degree or equivalent Experience LevelMore than 9 years Benefits

Benefits

• Health/Prescription Coverage
• FSA or HSA
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Company-match 401(k) Plan
• Vacation/Sick/Paid Holidays
• All benefits start on date of hire Physical Requirements