What you'll do: Reporting to the Plant Director and as part of the Site Leadership team, Assistant Plant Managers at Divert are an integral part of the overall company growth and success through their leadership of the site production team. With direct mentorship, this role offers significant opportunities for career development.
Responsibilities Safety and Quality Management:
- Proactive approach to creating a safe work environment through culture, training, and risk identification/mitigation.
- Unwavering commitment to quality, customer focused approach to deliver product safely, on time and above standard.
- Regular engagement of regional safety and quality teams to continuously grow our local site quality and safety programs.
- Ensures the plant's production and sanitation practices comply with all company standards and government regulations.
Operations:
- Develops firsthand expertise in the operation of all site processing equipment. Partners with the Plant Director, Maintenance Manager, Continuous Improvement, and Engineering to increase total plant throughput and drive efficiency.
- Leads, hires, mentors, and develops front-line supervision and hourly staff through regular training, coaching, and accountability.
- Systems based approach • SOPs, Standard Work, Training and Development. Partners with cross-functional support to deploy best practices within the facility.
- Leads change management through the site MOC process.
- Develops and executes daily and weekly plans in close coordination with the site. Maintenance Manager and Transportation Supervisor.
- Drive reliability best practices in close cooperation with site maintenance manager. Collect, measure, analyze and continuously improve site reliability and run rates.
- Continuously identify opportunities to reduce plant operating costs. Develops and leads improvement plans for value capture.
- Manage contractor work for plant improvements.
What we're looking for: - Bachelor's degree in engineering or Operations Management is preferred
- 5 years operations/engineering/maintenance experience in industrial environments (manufacturing/energy/chemical/wastewater treatment)
- 3-5 years people leadership experience, specifically direct oversight of one or more teams or shifts
- Hands-on leader who thrives in a role with 24/7 operations.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and support the operation team on nights and weekends as needed.
- Experience operating complex, continuous, automated, production operational systems
- Experience with pressurized liquid and gas systems, chemical handling/storage, instrumentation and controls systems
- Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, organizational/planning abilities, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven experience adapting to new challenges and learning quickly in a fast-paced environment
What's In It For You? - Compensation range: $120,000 - $145,000 / Year + 10% target bonus
- Health, Vision and Dental Benefits (effective the first of the month following your date of hire!)
- Life Insurance
- 401K
- Paid Time Off
- Opportunities for Advancement with a Rapidly Growing, Mission-Driven Organization
