Plant Manager

About Rensa

Rensa Filtration is a family of companies dedicated to air filtration. By investing in innovation and the people who drive it, we manufacture, market, and distribute best-in-class solutions in the United States, Canada and Europe that keep environments safe and industries thriving.

What We Do

• We improve the environment - making indoor and outdoor environments cleaner by eliminating process contaminants through superior products and media.

• We drive innovation in air filtration – by investing in the people and companies that develop the solutions that today’s world demands – to bring those innovative products to market so that our customers can bring maximum value and safety to the facilities and businesses they serve.

SUMMARY

The Plant Manager oversees all manufacturing operations and is responsible for driving operational excellence through Lean Manufacturing principles. This position leads production, maintenance, quality, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives while developing a culture of accountability, waste elimination, and employee engagement. The Plant Manager is expected to utilize data-driven decision making, workforce development, structured problem-solving, and Lean tools to improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance across all manufacturing operations.

ESSENTIAL POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• Lead and promote a Lean Manufacturing culture focused on safety, quality, delivery, cost and employee engagement.
• Conduct regular Gemba walks and waste elimination activities to identify for improvement.
• Lead line balancing initiatives to establish labor standards and identify productivity improvement opportunities.
• Lead root cause analysis activities utilizing structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Responsible for plant P&L’s. 
• Plan production schedule, communicate and track schedule with production team.
• Direct production and maintenance personnel to optimize and maintain all equipment.
• Run the preventative maintenance system to ensure machine effectiveness.
• Analyze data, make reports, and react to report data to run production.
• Review team members performance.
• Maintain Safety & training system and identify training needs.
• Support customer product & UL compliance with documentation requirements.
• Support monthly inventory and end of month accounting close process.
• Support purchasing materials when necessary 

Education and Experience:

Physical Requirements: 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stoop, stand and walk; use hands to feel or handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.