Plant Manager

Cascades

Birmingham, AL

Pay: $150,000+/yr

**Welcome to Cascades!**

As the **Plant Manager** with the Cascades Sonoco team, you will lead a state-of-the-art paper-based packaging and protective solutions manufacturing operation positioned for significant growth. Providing strategic and day-to-day direction for all plant operations, you will ensure the safe, efficient and profitable production of high-quality products while fostering a culture centered on employee engagement, accountability and continuous improvement.

Bring your expertise to a people-first, dynamic environment where your ideas come to life and excellence shapes everything we do. Join

MIKAEL AVEQUIN'

s team as a **Plant Manager** in **Birmingham, Alabama** and help build a more sustainable future.

**What’s In It For You**

Taking care of our people is in our nature - so you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive Annual Salary starting at **$150,000** + Profit Sharing
• **Career pathways** that support your goals in a values driven environment where your work directly supports customer success.
• **Excellent Benefits Package:** Wellness Plan Options, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off
• **Financial Benefits**: Retirement Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Stock Purchase Plan
• **Wellness Benefits**: Employee Assistance Plan, Lifestyle Flex Benefit Allowance
• A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace

**Your Role**

As **Plant Manager**, you’ll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential.

Your scope includes:

• Provide visible leadership that promotes a strong safety-first culture and ensures compliance with all regulatory and company requirements.
• Direct all manufacturing operations to achieve safety, quality, delivery, productivity and cost objectives.
• Establish performance expectations and monitor key manufacturing metrics including productivity, downtime, waste, throughput, customer service and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Partner with commercial teams to support customer growth, service requirements, and new business opportunities.
• Champion quality systems while leading root cause investigations and corrective actions related to safety, quality, customer complaints and operational issues.
• Foster a culture of Lean Manufacturing by implementing initiatives through a servant leadership lens that leads to engagement with process improvement.
• Monitor financial performance and analyze operational metrics to identify opportunities to achieve profitability and cost targets.

**What You Bring**

You're a natural fit for **Plant Manager** if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in **Engineering, Chemistry, Operations Management, Business or related discipline.**
• 7+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including plant, operations in a fast paced, high growth-oriented environment.
• Experience managing safety, quality, maintenance, production, and continuous improvement initiatives through Lean tools and methodologies.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing budgets, labor costs, capital expenditures, and operational performance metrics.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate with external and internal stakeholders across departments while influencing growth and positive change at all levels of the organization.
• Paper, paperboard, protective packaging, converting, corrugated and coatings manufacturing experience will be highly considered.
• Proficiency with MS365 applications, CMMS systems and SAP/ERP.

If you bring the same care to who you are as to what you do, we’d love to meet you!

Apply now and join our team as **Plant Manager** in **Birmingham.**

*Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably.*