Plant Manager

Linde

Ellisville, MS

Estimated pay: Est. $25–$43/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc.

**Plant Manager**

Ellisville, MS, United States | req34514

**What you will enjoy doing\***

**What you will enjoy doing**

• Lead the Ellisville manufacturing operation with full accountability for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), while ensuring customer commitments and business objectives are consistently achieved
• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team by setting clear expectations, coaching managers and supervisors, strengthening accountability, and developing organizational capability and succession
• Drive the PGT Lean Operating System through daily management, leader standard work, visual management, structured problem solving, standard work, and continuous improvement
• Be a visible leader on the shop floor, working with teams at the source to identify problems, remove barriers, strengthen process discipline, and ensure corrective actions address root causes and are sustained
• Improve operational performance and reliability by strengthening equipment performance, first-pass yield, flow, WIP, productivity, capacity, and on-time delivery while maintaining uncompromising safety and quality standards
• Develop and execute the site strategy, aligning workforce, training, equipment, materials, capital, and capacity with customer demand, growth priorities, and long-term business requirements
• Own the financial performance of the facility, including budgets, labor efficiency, overtime, productivity, cost improvement, operational spending, and capital priorities
• Lead cross-functionally and create a strong site culture, partnering with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, EHS, Human Resources, and Finance while fostering respect, transparency, employee engagement, urgency, and continuous improvement

**What makes you great**

**What makes you great**

• You have a Bachelor’s degree with ten (10) or more years of related manufacturing experience, a Master’s degree with eight (8) or more years, a PhD with five (5) or more years, or sixteen (16) or more years of directly related manufacturing experience
• You have significant manufacturing leadership experience with accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, people, and operational results
• You have successfully led leaders, including managers and frontline supervisors, and know how to build capability rather than becoming the organization’s primary problem solver
• You have demonstrated experience applying Lean principles, daily management, standard work, and structured problem solving to deliver measurable operational improvement
• You bring strong financial and business acumen, with experience managing budgets, labor, productivity, operating costs, and capital priorities
• Experience in aerospace, coatings, special processes, precision manufacturing, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment is strongly preferred
• You are comfortable leading change in a complex manufacturing environment and can move effectively between strategy, data, the shop floor, and customer and business priorities
• Most importantly, you lead with humility, accountability, transparency, respect for people, and a bias for action, while developing others and creating sustainable systems for success

**Why you will love working with us**

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

**What we offer you!**

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational lev