Plant Manager
Aug 25, 2026
- Plant Manager with 30+ years of extensive experience in thin gauge thermoforming, along with heavy gauge thermoforming, extrusion, and injection molding. He has led large-scale manufacturing operations with budgets exceeding $68M and teams of 300+ employees, including multi-site responsibility across plastics and packaging environments.
- He brings a strong continuous improvement mindset and a proven ability to drive out cost and waste through Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Kata, TPM, and structured problem solving. His results include improving thermoforming and extrusion OEE from 50% to 75% and delivering $3.5M in annual cost reductions, along with significant improvements in safety, quality, productivity, and operating performance.
- His impact includes:
- 30 years of progressive manufacturing and operations leadership
- Extensive thin-gauge thermoforming experience, plus heavy gauge and injection molding
- Multi-site leadership and teams of 300+ employees
- Manufacturing operations with budgets exceeding $68M
- $3.5M in annual cost reductions through Lean/OPEX initiatives
- Proven improvements in OEE, safety, quality, productivity, and conversion costs
- Bilingual English/Spanish
- Why now? Following significant changes in senior operations leadership, he is looking for his next opportunity with an organization that needs a strong leader who can drive change, improve performance, and build a culture of continuous improvement.
- Located in the Northeast and willing to relocate to select areas, he is best aligned with Plant Manager, Site Director, or Manufacturing Director opportunities, depending on scope. He is immediately available.
- If you need a strong, continuous-improvement-minded Operations Leader who knows thermoforming and knows how to drive result, please reach out! He won’t be around for long! I’d love to put you together!