Site Manager

Role Overview

• Serve as the figurehead of the Gordonsville site, and as such, must be scalable to all levels of the organization, up to and including the CEO.
• Lead by example to promote a culture of accountability, integrity, continuous improvement, HSSE, and quality; active champion of the company’s values, mission and vision.
• Drive dramatic culture change in terms of safety, quality, and operational performance at the GOR site.
• Lead stakeholders of HSSE, operations, engineering, planning, maintenance, supply chain, quality, and human resources to positively impact their functional areas and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead visionary approaches to transforming antiquated production scheduling processes in order to meet customer and operational needs in a transient work environment Create, analyze and modify site budgets to maximize efficiency and reduce costs.
• Build a collaborative environment between operations, maintenance, engineering, sales, research & development, IT, and finance.
• Be fully comfortable and active in using Lean/Six Sigma principles in order to better overall Operational Excellence of the facility.
• Be bold and visionary in approaches to managing the facility with transformational leadership… challenge the status quo and think ‘outside of the box’ to deliver operational and business key performance indicators!
• Manage/lead and motivate team, ensuring adequate staffing levels.
• Partner with HR to ensure that recruitment, training, development, disciplinary issues, etc are managed at a tangible level to drive improved performance.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s of Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in a technical field plus five to ten years related experience in the plastics/polymer industry or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.