Plant Superintendent

The Opportunity

This role offers true ground-floor leadership:

• Build plant operations
• Influence hiring, layout, workflows, safety systems, and production strategy
• Direct impact on growth, scalability, and long-term company direction
• Clear path for expanded leadership as the company scales

Role Summary

The Plant Superintendent is responsible for the safe, efficient, and high-quality operation of all plant activities. This leader will manage daily production, supervise plant personnel, enforce safety and quality standards, develop systems, and drive continuous improvement.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring floor presence, decision-making, and execution.

Key Responsibilities

Operations & Production

• Lead all daily manufacturing operations to meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets
• Translate production schedules into executable floor plans
• Identify bottlenecks and drive throughput improvements
• Coordinate labor, materials, equipment, and workflow

Leadership & Team Development

• Directly manage team leaders and hourly production staff
• Build a high-accountability, high-performance culture
• Lead hiring, onboarding, training, and performance management
• Conduct daily production meetings

Safety & Compliance

• Enforce plant safety standards
• Ensure compliance with internal safety programs
• Lead incident investigations and corrective actions

Quality & Process Control

• Enforce quality systems and work standards
• Partner with Quality to reduce defects, rework, and scrap
• Implement standardized work and layered process audits

Continuous Improvement

• Drive Lean, 5S, and waste-reduction initiatives
• Lead kaizen events and process optimizations
• Use data and KPIs to guide decisions

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with Engineering, Quality, Materials, and Leadership
• Support new product launches and production scaling
• Communicate production risks and mitigation plans

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of manufacturing leadership experience (Supervisor, Manager, or Superintendent level)
• Proven experience leading production teams of 30+ employees
• Strong working knowledge of safety systems, Lean manufacturing principles, production scheduling/labor planning, and quality systems
• Ability to lead in fast-changing, ambiguous startup environments
• Strong communication, accountability, and decision-making skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup or build-from-scratch plant experience
• Automotive, heavy equipment, fabrication, or assembly background
• Experience scaling production operations

Pay: $80,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person