Plant Manager (Montana)

Designs for Health

Designs for Health is an industry-leading and rapidly growing manufacturer and distributor of nutritional supplements offered primarily through health care practitioners. By providing comprehensive support through our extensive product line, ongoing clinical education, and practice development programs, Designs for Health helps practitioners realize successful health outcomes for their patients. The company has two manufacturing plants and four distribution centers in the United States, and its products are distributed in five continents.

Position Overview

The Plant Manager oversees all the daily operations of the manufacturing plant from production to ensuring policies and procedures are followed. The Plant Manager develops and implements processes and leads the team to ensure production of required product quantities in a way that promotes, safety, quality, and productivity.

Essential Job Duties

• Demonstrates and champions the Designs for Health Company Values, maintaining the highest levels of personal character, integrity, and professionalism
• Plans, organizes, directs, and runs optimum day-to-day manufacturing operations in the assigned location in accordance with company and department priorities and directives.
• Delivers the output, quality, and on-time delivery required per the production plan.
• Manage day to day warehouse operations, inventory control, and inbound and outbound shipping.
• Troubleshoots and resolves production issues with equipment, processes, and teams.
• Champions lean initiatives in partnership with management and cross-functional colleagues.
• Allocates resources effectively and fully utilizes capital and people assets to produce deliver optimal results.
• Implements programs that are aligned with company and department strategic initiatives and priorities and provides a clear direction and focus to the manufacturing team in the assigned location.
• Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, including other teams and sites within Operations, Quality, Human Resources, and Finance.
• Leads, manages, and develops production staff.
• Collects and analyzes data to optimize the manufacturing operation at the assigned location.
• Ensures the plant follows applicable cGMP/quality and safety procedures and maintains (or improves where applicable) the quality and safety incident rates at the assigned location.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field required; Masters degree preferred
• At least 5 years of leadership experience in manufacturing roles with increasing responsibility.

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and managerial skills.
• Thorough understanding of the policies and practices used in the manufacturing division.
• Ability to set long-term goals and communicate them to others.
• Ability to motivate and organize multiple efforts to accomplish goals.
• Proficiency with industry standard equipment and applicable technical expertise to the lines of production operating at the assigned location
• Knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, inventory, and other production processes
• Ability to hold employees accountable and to lead by example
• Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills
• Knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation and human resources)

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This role is predominantly a highly active in movement role. The job also requires the ability to lift 50 lbs.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits

Designs for Health offers a competitive compensation and benefits package:

• 100% company-paid medical insurance premiums for employee + children.
• 100% company-paid life insurance, long and short-term disability benefits.
• Group dental, vision, and other ancillary benefits.
• Health and dependent care spending accounts.
• 401K plan with company-match up to 4% after the first year of employment.
• Allowance for company products for personal use.