Plant Manager

Description

• Collaborate with the Technology Operations team on future facility installations and possibly support facility startup operations.
• Support a preventive maintenance program and make OPex recommendations
• Build and manage a successful team to hit ambitious goals and facility operations standards
• Lead day to day operations of AMP's recycling facility
• Develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance protocols
• All work is conducted in an open building environment with exposure to outdoor conditions. 90% of work is hands-on shop floor operation, sortation, housekeeping and maintenance duties.
• Create, track, share facility-specific metrics which allow the company to improve facility profitability metrics
• Achieve ambitious facility and quality production requirements (safety, total materials processed and hourly, facility uptime, material production quality, etc)
• Work closely with finance team to properly account and track costs at a unit and facility level
• Collaborate closely with engineering and cross-functional teams to test new technologies to improve current and future facility equipment, design, operations and overall performance
• Develop and execute on a near and short-term facility improvement roadmap
• Work with AMP safety and people management teams to maintain a culture of safety and excellence. Act as onsite Safety Officer.

Requirements

• Business Model-oriented: Must be able to understand AMP market and product requirements
• Training could take place in Virginia until Commerce City plant is live
• Planning: Excellent planning skills to build, communicate and execute complex projects.
• People Leader: Strong facility and people management skills, ability to successfully manage complex cross-functional projects while maintaining focus on day to day responsibilities.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 45 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus, and ability to accurately see and label color.
• Excellent Communication: Strategic listener, conscious conversationalist, and persuasive of people from a wide range of roles and backgrounds; Comfortable communicating with all types of stakeholders.
• 8+ years of experience in a manufacturing or MRF facility preferred
• This role requires frequent travel to other AMP One sites during the pre-launch and ramp-up period of the Commerce City facility. Once the Commerce City plant is fully operational, travel will decrease to approximately 10%.
• Technical bachelor's degree preferred
• Potential exposure to extreme weather conditions.
• Mindset: Operator's mindset for continuous improvement. Autonomous, high-motor approach to execution and achievement. Self-motivated and outspoken about what is needed to get a job done. Advanced understanding and experience with general operations, philosophies and processes typical in a production environment
• Understand legacy AMP and recycling/waste facility technologies to provide recommendations to make cost-efficient facility improvements

Benefits

• Medical - The company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
• 6 Accrued Sick Days
• Benefits start the day you start
• Dental, Vision, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance: The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life
• FTO - Flexible Time Off
• Eight (8) paid holidays
• HSA Eligible Health Plans, Company Monthly Contributions!
• 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance