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.

The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team.

• Strategic Mindset – anticipates future trends and implications accurately
• Decision Quality – relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions
• Customer Focus – identifies opportunities that benefit the business
• Business Insight – keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, function, and in the marketplace
• Plans and Aligns – breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions
• Optimizes Work Processes – seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering
• Ensures Accountability – establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results
• Collaborates – works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives
• Develops Talent – develops others through coaching, feedback, exposure, and stretch assignments
• Builds Effective Teams – forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience
• Drives Vision and Purpose – talks about future possibilities in a positive way
• Courage – faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same

The Plant Manager role will have direct responsibility of the facility’s safety, quality, service, productivity, administrative and financial performance. This Plant Manager will support the Wooster, Ohio facility and will be the main point of contact between the company’s corporate office and the respective manufacturing location. The Plant Manager is responsible for 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 is also responsible for employee development, staffing, project management and annual operating budget preparation and recommendations and reports directly to the Regional Manufacturing Manager of the Great Lakes Region.

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
• Leverages relationships with peer group and internal leaders to promote teamwork and ensure best practice sharing across the organization.
• Partners with HR department 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.
• 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:

This position should possess the following skills/knowledge:

• Excellent work ethic, self-starter
• Strong people management/leadership skills; demonstrated ability to develop self-perpetuating teams
• 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

Educational Requirements:

• 4-year Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree preferred 

Preferred Experience:

• 7-10 years of progressive leadership in a manufacturing organization or similar job experience
• Led a lean transformation previous company
• Six Sigma certified
• Experience with logistics and warehousing

Physical Requirements:

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.