Own the Floor. Grow the Team. Deliver for the Customer.
Do you thrive where strategy meets the shop floor? As the Manufacturing Operations Lead (reporting to the Plant Manager), you’ll be the catalyst for safe, reliable productiondriving quality, output, and on-time shipping while coaching supervisors and developing tomorrow’s leaders.
Your impact
- Run day-to-day operations to outperform customer expectations on delivery, quality, and flexibility.
- Boost capacity, cut waste, and control costs without sacrificing standards.
- Allocate people and assets to maximize throughput and ROI.
- Align your area to division priorities; communicate a clear direction to production teams.
- Monitor performance and act quickly on variances.
- Recruit, train, and grow plant talent; lead training initiatives for all employees.
- Deploy systems that capture KPIs and elevate productivity, quality, and safety.
- Lead budget stewardship and expense control; identify cost-avoidance and product-improvement opportunities.
- Foster a customer-first mindset across internal and external interactions.
- Translate vision into executable plans with owners and deadlines.
Safety firstalways
- Enforce OSHA and plant safety protocols (e.g., lockout tag out), and serve on/with the Safety Committee.
- Set safety as a strategic imperative; model the right behaviors.
- Hold managers and supervisors accountable for safety results.
- Continuously improve safety practices across operations.
Are you a match?
- Degree in business, engineering, or related field preferredor equivalent experience.
- 3–5+ years in manufacturing; background in extrusion, plastic bag converting, or paper converting is a plus.
- Hands-on leader with structured problem-solving chops and measurable achievements.
- Comfortable working autonomously and partnering up/down/across the organization.
- Clear communicator; excellent written and verbal skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office; quick to learn new systems.
- Coach, builder, decision-makerable to set expectations and create accountability.
- Knowledgeable in budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation, and HR basics.
- Adept at interpreting complex documents and statistics; can request/build system-generated performance reports.
- Highly organized with sharp prioritization and time management.
What you know (and use)
- Equipment capability and constraintsturning design limits into efficient operations and training moments.
- Cost levers that shrink total expenses and spotlight improvement needs.
- Budget creation, adherence, and variance analysis; quality standards and methods.
- Regulations and policies, including wage/hour, environmental and waste minimization, company policy, and personnel requirements (OSHA, DEQ, EEO).
Communication, math, and reasoning strengths
- Read/interpret business publications, technical procedures, and governmental rules; author reports, business correspondence, and procedures; present to diverse audiences.
- Comfort with mathematics and numerical analysis.
- Define problems, gather data, establish facts, and draw sound conclusions; interpret complex written and diagram-based technical instructions.
Physical realities
Regular talking/hearing; frequent standing, walking, and sitting; occasional use of hands to finger, handle, or feel; reaching; climbing/balancing; stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling. Lift/move up to 50 lbs. Vision: close, distance, color, peripheral, depth, and focus adjustment.
Where you’ll work
Expect moving mechanical parts and frequent wet/humid conditions; occasionally heights, fumes/airborne particles, and vibration. The environment is typically loud.
Why Pratt Industries
We’re the 5th largest paper and packaging company in the U.S., powered by 9,000+ green-collar employees. Our corrugated operations span 20+ states with advanced paper mills and a nationwide network of sheet and box plantsdelivering creative packaging and leading in recycling by harvesting the urban forest.
Total rewards
Competitive pay + comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, disability, All State, Pre-Paid Legal, 401(k) with match, paid vacation, paid holidays, and childbearing and parental leave.
Apply now
Please apply on our company website: https://myjobs.adp.com/prattexternalcareersite/cx/job-details?__tx_annotation=false&_fromPublish=true&reqId=200
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