Plant Manager

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking a Plant Manager with experience in industrial, manufacturing, or recycling environments to ensure operational continuity and lead teams. Key Highlights: 1. Team leadership and operational management in industrial or recycling plants. 2. Autonomy in making operational decisions and proposing improvements. 3. A growing company with operational challenges. **Plant Manager** We seek to hire a Plant Manager with experience in industrial, manufacturing, or recycling environments, capable of ensuring production plan compliance, inventory control, and facility maintenance, while leading their team with a culture of safety, operational discipline, and continuous improvement. We seek someone who is hands-on, familiar with operations firsthand, and who guarantees that the plant produces as planned, with defined quality and resources under control. What will be your challenge? Ensuring plant operational continuity by meeting production and quality targets set by Operations Management, efficiently managing assigned human, technical, and financial resources, and maintaining strict control over the warehouse, inventories, critical supplies, and spare parts—all while leading operational work teams and mobilizing them toward achieving production, quality, and safety objectives. Key Responsibilities * Supervise daily plant operations, ensuring product quality, team safety, and adherence to the production schedule. * Lead work teams, aligning them with production, quality, and safety goals, and promoting discipline, commitment, and competency development. * Manage the warehouse: receiving, storage, dispatch, and inventory control of raw materials, finished goods, and supplies. * Monitor critical inventories and spare parts stock, coordinating timely replenishment. * Ensure implementation of preventive and corrective maintenance plans, managing equipment availability and minimizing downtime. * Ensure responsible use of equipment, machinery, tools, and facilities. * Coordinate with various departments to meet production and dispatch plans. * Prepare production and inventory reports. * Identify and drive continuous improvements that reduce costs, losses, and process cycle times. * Prepare and/or provide information for internal and external audits (quality, safety, environment). We seek candidates with * A professional or technical degree in Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. Proven experience in equivalent positions will be highly valued. * At least 5 years of experience as Plant Manager, Production Manager, or Warehouse Manager in manufacturing, recycling, or industrial companies. * Experience in recycling companies or in managing waste recovery, processing, or valorization plants. * Experience leading operational work teams and guiding them toward goal achievement. * Experience in team management, inventory control, and production process control. * Proficiency in Microsoft Office and management software. * Physical fitness compatible with plant and warehouse work (not office-only). We especially value experience in * Recycling and industrial plants. * Warehouse management and inventory control. * Quality, safety, and environmental management systems. * Continuous improvement methodologies. Competencies We Value * Hands-on leadership under pressure, with the ability to mobilize operational teams toward goal achievement. * Results orientation and commitment to meeting targets. * Order, operational discipline, and rigor in resource control. * Planning and organization. * Effective communication and conflict resolution. * Timely operational decision-making. * Commitment to safety and self-care. What do we offer? * The opportunity to join a rapidly growing company facing significant operational challenges. * Autonomy to make operational decisions and propose improvements with direct impact on plant performance. * Competitive salary commensurate with experience, skills, and professional background. **If you have led industrial or recycling plants and are motivated to maintain an orderly, safe, and efficient operation, we want to meet you.** Please send your CV and salary expectations to adminrrhh@grupocycle.cl, with the subject line "Plant Manager Application". Salary: $900\.797 \- $1\.500\.000 per month Workplace: On-site employment