Plant Manager

Brook + Whittle is seeking a Plant Manager for their Guilford Center, CT facility. The role involves overseeing operations, ensuring safety and quality, driving continuous improvement, and maximizing profitability. Key responsibilities include managing production activities, implementing strategies, training employees, and collaborating with teams. The ideal candidate should have 7+ years of manufacturing experience, particularly in lean processes and printing operations.
Reporting to the General Manager – Eastern US, you will have broad responsibility and leadership for the overall performance and profitability of Brook & Whittle’s Connecticut site’s operations. You will lead the implementation of strategies and initiatives to ensure a safe work environment, drive quality improvements, provide premier customer service, maximize profitable growth, develop a technically qualified work force, foster an environment that supports the company culture of collaboration and teamwork, reduce operating costs, inventories, and lead times through continuous improvements. You will oversee day-to-day activities to meet daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly customer and business expectations.
• Primary Duties and Responsibilities
• Directs and coordinates the safety, quality, and production activities of the Connecticut facility
• Leads by example supporting the company culture of safety, teamwork, collaboration and high ethics, with a continuous improvement and customer focus
• Actively participates in the site’s safety and quality management programs
• Ensures that programs and procedures are adopted to guard against industrial accidents and protect the safety and well-being of employees
• Maintain quality through all processes; reacts to quality issues and responds with sustainable corrective actions
• Works closely with Corporate Quality team to address CIPs, implement process controls and conduct root cause analysis to identify ways to improve and maintain acceptable product quality
• Develop and implement action plans with team members as needed for problem resolution
• Engages the team in identifying and implementing continuous improvement projects
• Identifies and implements improvements for material cost reduction, quality assurance and productivity
• Works cross-functionally to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of Lean
• Reviews Key Performance Indicators (Daily, Weekly and Monthly) to ensure site is on track to meet overall departmental objectives
• Ensure employees are trained in all aspects of their jobs to include safety, quality, and productivity
• Works closely with account management and sales to support new product introduction and product redesigns
• Partner with Quality to establish necessary standard operating procedures and work instructions to direct the most efficient, cost effective and highest quality process
• Work professionally in a team environment with site and corporate colleagues
• Support the overall company goals and directions
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned
• Competencies
• You must be able to demonstrate teamwork and team building skills in producing results by meeting organizational objectives. Capable of assessing and developing individual and team skills and capabilities, with the ability to create and maintain enthusiasm for new and challenging goals. The Plant Manager will serve as a role model by collaborating across all functions of the organization, promoting new ideas and positive change.
• Previous Involvement with or leading a team in LEAN process improvements or implementation is preferred.

Education and Experience
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment including lean/flow manufacturing with relevant exposure to rotogravure and flexographic printing operation.
• Engineering or Technical degree and 7+ years equivalent experience (significantly and directly related) preferred.
• Have working knowledge of lean and/or six sigma concepts with demonstrated success
• 5+ years of experience in wide web central impression flexographic printing preferred.
• *About us:**

Brook & Whittle is a fast-growing company with strong potential for career growth. Wouldn’t it be cool to go to the store and pick up products that you can say ‘we make that label’? We are a leading prime label printer offering packaging solutions for highly decorated shrink, film, and paper pressure sensitive products. We are highly innovative, developing new technologies and solutions to our customers’ requests and needs; our skilled employees operate some of the most advanced presses in the market and we offer superior artwork.

Our culture is first and foremost one of collaboration and teamwork. We hold ourselves to high professional, ethical and fairness standards. We have zero tolerance for anything less. We are a very diverse workforce that we celebrate as well; we reward good performance through our recognition program, our advancement opportunities and our pay structures.

We welcome you to consider being part of this great team.

Disclaimer The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this position. They are not intended