Manager Plant

At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves.  For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials.  Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers. 

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

ADS has an exciting Plant Manager opportunity located in Lake Wales, Florida. This Plant Manager position will be a key member of the project team supporting the construction of this new ADS manufacturing facility, ultimately leading to managing the plant’s startup and ongoing operations. The Plant Manager role will have direct responsibility of the facility’s safety, quality, service, productivity, administrative and financial performance.

Key responsibilities of this Plant Manager role includes:

• Key member of project team tasked with the creating new infrastructure in a greenfield site
• Establishing and maintaining a culture of safety and continuous improvement
• Supporting and driving a lean operation dedicated to consistent efficiency and improvement to build standard processes and adhere to the ADS operating system
• Directing and managing department managers while driving a culture of accountability, coaching, and development
• Provides excellent customer service through high quality, service and delivery expectations
• Creating an environment that promotes positive employee engagement and community partnership
• Effective partnership and communication across all functional departments, including but not limited to executive, safety, quality, sales, engineering, finance, IT, supply chain, manufacturing and Human Resources.
• Building and adhering to an annual operating budget that aligns with strategy deployment

The Plant Manager is the main point of contact between the company’s corporate office and the Lake Wales plant location. The Plant Manager is responsible for developing the culture of the facility and successfully leading the operation by practicing ADS Core Values and supporting our Green Line Operating System (LEAN), instilling a metrics driven approach, and creating a culture of continuous improvement to enable future growth. This position provides leadership for the facility and sets goals and executes strategies to meet corporate and regional business objectives. The Plant Manager reports directly to the Regional Manufacturing Manager.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Maintains high health and safety standards and promote a positive environmental health and safety culture.
• Leads and executes through our Green Line Operating System, while continually driving improvement and consistent KPIs across all plant departments
• Acts as key member of build project team, utilizing project management experience to proactively push plans forward and anticipate challenges
• Leverages relationships with peer group and internal leaders to promote teamwork and ensure best practice sharing across the organization.
• Partners with HR Manager to create a culture of employee engagement and accountability
• Understands local perspective and proactively finds ways create positive company brand across the community
• Finds success in a rapidly evolving environment while leading change from the front seat and operationalizes company goals at the plant level.
• Ensures professional and leadership development of department Managers.
• Communicates timely and effectively with VP of Manufacturing with regards to performance and operations.
• Strong analytical approach when preparing annual operating budgets for plant. Meet or exceed budget requirements.
• Inventory management and asset management, efficiency-outside warehousing
• Work closely with logistics team to drive efficient communication, routing, and staffing.
• Cost effectively manages labor plans in a seasonal environment while meeting demand needs.
• Continuously monitors and evaluates goals and work processes, makes timely adjustments when needed.

Job Skills:

• Excellent work ethic, self-starter
• Strong people management/leadership skills; demonstrated ability to develop self-perpetuating teams
• Strong project management skills
• The ability to overcome adversity and drive change by influencing others to achieve results.
• Exceptional communication skills at all levels of the organization while balancing active listening skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Thrives in an environment that works collaboratively in a team environment
• Utilize and teach lean tools such as daily management, leader standard work, problem solving tools, and kaizen
• Comfortable with manipulating excel spreadsheets and understanding financial reports

Education and/or Experience

• 4-year Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree preferred
• 7-10 years of progressive leadership in an organization
• 3-5 years leading in a continuous improvement environment
• Experience with being part of a greenfield project

Preferred Experience

• 7-10 years of progressive leadership in a manufacturing organization
• Led a lean transformation previous company
• Black Belt
• Six Sigma certified
• Experience with logistics and warehousing
• Manufacturing environment
• Bi-Lingual English/Spanish

ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.