Plant Manager

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.

Ideal Candidate Exerience

• 7-10 years of Plant leadership experience in automated manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, distribution, or industrial operations

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• Demonstrated ownership of site performance metrics

• Strong people leadership and employee engagement capability

• Experience leading safety, quality, cost, service, and productivity outcomes

• Experience with leading multi-disciplinary teams

• Working knowledge of Lean, Continuous Improvement, and operational excellence and ability to apply basic principles to operational execution

• Financial and business acumen or the ability to understand, interpret, and use financial information and business circumstances to drive sound business decisions

• Matrixed environment experience and being able to deliver results with support and alignment from other organizational functions

• Ability to lead a team of both hourly and salaried staff including Direct and Indirect scope up to 300

Scope/Accountabilities

• Full site leadership (production, safety, cost, quality, service)

• Translate network priorities into plant execution

• Own plant-level performance results and leadership effectiveness

Key Responsibilities

• Own full plant P&L and long-term performance

• Deliver site KPIs (people, safety, quality, DIFOT, cost, productivity)

• Embed standard operation systems and processes

• Drive performance improvement vs. baseline

• Build high-performing frontline leadership teams

• Drive Lean/CI execution

• Manage labor and capacity

• Lead talent development and succession within site

• Networking and representing the organization within the community

• Effective communication with all key stakeholders

Required Capabilities

• Strong operational executive & P&L ownership

• Deep operational execution discipline

• Financial ownership at plant level

• Leadership and engagement

• Data driven decision making and performance management

• Working knowledge of automation/engineering environments

KPIs

• Safety (TIFR)

• Service (DIFOT)

• Cost per unit/productivity

• Quality

• Employee Engagement & Turnover

Experience

• Experienced Site Leader

• Proven ability to run stable, performing site

• Strong people leader with consistent execution and history