Plant Manager

Position Summary:

The Plant Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for all aspects of plant operations, ensuring production efficiency, product quality, regulatory compliance, asset management, equipment reliability, cost control, and workplace safety. This role is accountable for meeting production, budget, and process improvement targets, driving manufacturing optimization, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and team development.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• With strategic focus, leads and directs all aspects of day-to-day operations in the plant including daily production, maintenance, quality control, planning and logistics, and project execution.
• Provide direct oversight for the operations management team including production, maintenance, warehouse, quality and logistics.
• Prepare and manage annual capital expenditure and operating budgets.
• Attend monthly board of managers meetings.
• Collaboration with VP of Ops, CEO, CFO and Human Resources in Corporate Headquarters.
• Execute plant-specific strategic objectives to assure continuous improvement and alignment with industry objectives.
• Support and maintain company marketing strategies of ethanol and ethanol by products.
• Ensure systems and processes are optimizing productivity standards, metrics and performance targets to minimize waste and labor costs.
• Ensure all quality standards, specifications and policies are met or exceeded while seeking continuous process and manufacturing improvements.
• Maintains and adheres to quality standards in the plant that satisfy the requirements of ISO standards.
• Recommend hiring and then train and develop employees in support of a culture of highly functioning, engaged team.
• Direct plant operational policies and procedures and leads plant safety initiates and instills safety-based behaviors in constant pursuit of zero time lost-time and incidents. Will be the primary onsite contact with local & state authorities and ensure adherence to all legal and regulatory aspects of running the operation: OSHA, EPA, DNR, etc.