Regional Plant Manager

Brambles; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Benefits Day 1

Housing & travel support

Paid Time Off

401K match

Vision, disability & life insurance

PPE & safety equipment

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

CHEP, part of Brambles, is seeking an experienced Plant/Site Leader for US operations. You will drive site stability, lead turnover and CI initiatives, and oversee safety, quality, and cost through strong leadership. The role requires 7–10 years in plant leadership, a bachelor’s degree, and high mobility with travel.

You will be deployed across the US Service Center Network with potential long assignments, owning full plant P&L and driving rapid improvements.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years’ experience in Plant/Site Leader roles in manufacturing or similar production environment.
• Proven ability to run stable, performing site and lead teams.
• Strong leadership with a track record of execution and transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead health and safety of all employees, contractors, and visitors, ensuring compliance.
• Champion safety improvements under Zero Harm while meeting environmental regs.
• Oversee equipment reliability and operational continuity with maintenance teams.
• Drive best practices and CI to optimize plant performance in safety, quality, and cost.
• Manage site security, storage and movement of materials and equipment.
• Develop plant staff and ensure accountability to performance standards.
• Meet customer expectations through effective plant operations.

Skills

Operational execution

Turnaround leadership

People leadership

Lean & CI

Change leadership

Data literacy

Scheduling

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced manufacturing leader to step into challenging and rewarding assignments, from stabilizing operations and leading site transformations to supporting new facility startups and major business initiatives. If you excel in change leadership, continuous improvement, and delivering results, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead and be accountable for the health and safety of all employees, contractors, and visitors, ensuring strict adherence to corporate and legislative requirements.
• Champion the continuous improvement of safety performance, aligned with Brambles’ Zero Harm initiative, while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.
• In collaboration with the maintenance team oversee equipment reliability across the site ensuring operational continuity and efficiency.
• Ensure full compliance with all task-specific responsibilities outlined in CHEP procedures, work instructions, and safety protocols, maintaining operational consistency.
• Drive the implementation of best practices and continuous improvement processes to optimize plant performance in areas such as safety, quality, and cost control.
• Maintain site security and ensure compliance with service center requirements, including managing storage, stock levels, and movement of materials and equipment.
• Manage, lead, and develop plant staff, fostering accountability and ensuring that all team members meet or exceed performance expectations as outlined in job descriptions and agreements.
• Ensure that customer expectations, both internal and external, are consistently met or exceeded through effective management of plant operations.

This position is responsible for rapid, high impact leadership intervention to stabilize operations, cover vacancies, or drive turnaround.

What You Will Do

Major/Key Accountabilities:

• Full site leadership (production, safety, cost, quality, service)
• First 90-day execution planning and translating network priorities into plant execution
• Deployable to any plant within US Service Center Network for months at a time
• Possible short-term assignments and scenarios include, but not limited to:
• Step into site leadership immediately and lead turnaround or underperforming interventions
• Stabilize operations and improve KPIs quickly
• Coach site leadership teams while driving CI and turnaround initiatives
• Support Site openings, conversations and transformations
• Fill leadership gaps (PM or Operational Supervisors)
• Prepare site for permanent PM Placement
• Own full plant P&L

What You Will Bring

Experience:

• 7 to 10 years’ experience in Plant/Site Leader roles in manufacturing or similar production environment
• Proven ability to run stable, performing site
• Strong people leader with consistent execution and history
• Continuous Improvement/Lean and operational excellence experience strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred

Skills and Knowledge:

• Deep operational execution experience
• Rapid Situational assessment ability
• Strong turnaround skills
• High mobility and travel flexibility
• Strong turnaround and crisis leadership capability
• Ability to establish credibility quickly
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complex situations

What To Expect

Additional Details:

• Ability to lead a team of both hourly and salaried staff including direct and indirect scope up to 100 employees
• Ability to travel up to 75% within the U.S.
• Willingness to be deployed with short notice and be stationed at a particular location for potentially months at a time

What We Offer

Employee Package:

• Competitive Pay & Annual Bonus Structure
• Benefits Day 1!
• Temporary housing and work-related travel expenses will be covered
• Paid Time Off plus Holiday Observances
• 401K w/ company match (up to 4%)
• FREE company-paid vision, short-term disability, and life insurance!
• FREE company-provided PPE and safety equipment
• Tuition reimbursement, parental leave, childcare assistance, profit sharing, and MORE!

Remote Type

Fully Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Change Leadership, Change Management, Coaching, Collaboration, Computer Literacy, Data Analysis, Data Literacy, Delegation, Disruptive Thinking, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Leading Customer Centric Teams, Mathematic Literacy, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Prioritization, Scheduling, Self-Awareness, Written Communication

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.